NAB's Dennis Wharton, executive vice president-communications, retiring effective July 1, continuing as senior adviser; Executive Vice President-Communications Michelle Lehman becoming EVP-public affairs as association combines communications and marketing departments into new public affairs department; Senior Vice President-Communications Ann Marie Cumming becoming primary spokesperson ... Newly formed Open RAN Policy Coalition (see 2005050030) names Diane Rinaldo, ex-NTIA, executive director.
Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy names Hillary Brill, Georgetown University, interim executive director, and Jennifer Sturiale, from Harvard Law School, program director for tech law and policy academic programs ... GuidePost Strategies adds Zack Roday, ex-House Commerce Committee (see this section, May 4) as senior adviser ... Amazon Web Services Vice President-Distinguished Engineer Tim Bray resigns, citing “dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers”; company declined to comment ... Strategy Analytics moves Edouard Bouffenie to senior analyst-media and intelligent home practice.
Tiffany Haverly, ex-PhRMA, becomes communications director, House Commerce Committee, succeeding Zack Roday, departing for position in “public affairs/strategic consulting/media space” ... Intelligent Waves appoints Tony Crescenzo, ex-IntelliDyne, president.
Perkins Coie promotes patent lawyer Jose Villarreal to managing partner, Austin office ... Greg Guice, McGuireWoods Consulting, becomes also executive director-new App Coalition ... Recording Academy names Valeisha Butterfield Jones, ex-Google, its first chief diversity and inclusion officer ... Mechanical Licensing Collective appoints Ellen Truley chief marketing officer; Leigh McCorkle, ex-BMI, chief people officer; Dae Bogan, from UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, head-third-party partnerships; Serona Elton, University of Miami’s Frost School of Music; and Lindsey Major, ex-Fairygodboss, head-customer experience.
Weil Gotshal announces Michael Moiseyev, FTC, as partner-antitrust, competition ... Mercury names Adam Bramwell, ex-office of Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Del., managing director ... Ry Marcattilio-McCracken, ex-Oklahoma State University, joins Institute for Local Self-Reliance as senior researcher, Community Broadband Networks ... Public Media Group of Southern California appoints Dan Ferguson, ex-AT&T, senior vice president-marketing and communications.
House Judiciary Antitrust Chairman David Cicilline, D-R.I., names Megan Garcia, from New America, deputy chief of staff and legislative director ... BakerHostetler hires Jeewon Kim Serrato, ex-Norton Rose, as partner to co-lead new digital transformation and data economy team with partners Janine Anthony Bowen and Chad Rutkowski ... George Mason University Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property appoints Joshua Kresh, ex-DLA Piper, deputy director ... Colorado Statewide Internet Portal Authority names Chief Operating Officer Catherine Kunst acting executive director effective June 1; Jack Arrowsmith retiring ... Crisis Text Line taps Ben Kolin, ex-Uber, as chief technology officer.
New America’s Open Technology Institute hires Christine Bannan, ex-Electronic Privacy Information Center, as policy counsel, and promotes Chhaya Kapadia to chief of staff and Claire Park to program associate ... Maine Public Utilities Commission announces David Braley, from Division of Environmental and Community Health, to director-Telephone and Water Division.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announces retirement of Pam Yingling, lead industry analyst, Public Safety Bureau licensing branch in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ... Calfee Strategic Solutions names Timothy Day, ex-U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as principal, focused on federal and state lobbying ... Lewis Brisbois hires Brian Craig, ex-TLT, as partner-data privacy and cybersecurity.
Electronic Privacy Information Center taps General Counsel Alan Butler as interim executive director following Executive Director Marc Rotenberg’s departure ... Davis Wright taps Spencer Persson, ex-Norton Rose, as partner-privacy and security ... PG&E CEO-President Bill Johnson retiring and leaving board June 30, with board member Bill Smith, ex-AT&T, becoming interim CEO; Andrew Vesey, CEO and president-subsidiary Pacific Gas and Electric Company, remains in his role.
International Center for Law & Economics hires Ian Adams, ex-TechFreedom, for executive director, and Sam Bowman, ex-Fingleton Associates, is director-competition policy ... Next Century Cities appoints Brittany-Rae Gregory, ex-office of Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., communications director; and Ryan Johnston, ex-Computer and Communications Industry Association, policy counsel; and moves Lukas Pietrzak to policy associate ... DOD Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Essye Miller retiring effective June 30, John Sherman advancing to position ... NATE using Gemma Frock, GKF Consulting Services, to implement telecom industry workforce plan.