Intellectual property lawyers Hissan Anis, Justin Poplin and Anna Quinn, all ex-Lathrop GPM, found Avant Law Group as principals ... Madison Square Garden Entertainment completes spinoff of Madison Square Garden Sports with Mark FitzPatrick, ex-WeWork and ex-Time Warner Cable, executive vice president-chief financial officer; Victoria Mink remains at MSG Sports in same jobs as FitzPatrick ... Wayfair moves interim Chief Technology Officer Jim Miller to permanent post ... BCM One acquires nexVortex with latter’s Lita Miller and Mike Nowak to lead, respectively, Herndon, Virginia, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, offices.
Zoom and Luta Security join forces on bug bounty program headed by the latter’s Katie Moussouris ... Piper Sandler promotes Steven Schmidt to head-technology investment banking ... Niantic hires Megan Quinn, ex-Spark, as chief operating officer ... LiveRamp appoints Jason White, ex-ViacomCBS, senior vice president and head-publishers ... Lincoln Network inaugural policy hackers “helping bridge the gap between innovators and policymakers”: Pujaa Rajan, Node; Sarmad Qadri, ex-Microsoft; Riva-Melissa Tez, Intel; artificial intelligence researcher Genevieve Fried; aerospace engineer Keenan Johnson; Matt Parlmer, Utility; Luke Metro, Kitty Hawk; Caroline McCarthy, true[X]; Mike Wacker, ex-Microsoft; and tech entrepreneur Luis Navia ... Jesse Cohn, Elliott Management, stepping down from Citrix board ... Manufacturer’s Edge elects Shelli Brunswick, Space Foundation, to board ... Menlo Security adds Joe Sexton, ex-AppDynamics, to board.
Bona Law taps Jon Cieslak, ex-Cooley, as partner-antitrust ... Ancestry names Ronald Park, from Roche Pharmaceuticals, executive vice president-health and DNA ... Shutterfly appoints Vivian Liu, ex-Lexmark, senior vice president-chief financial officer ... Disney elects CEO Bob Chapek to board ... Marketron names Drew Horowitz, Gemini Strategies & Advisories, to board ... MobileIron enters cooperation agreement with Altai Capital Management with latter’s President-Chief Investment Officer Rishi Bajaj joining MobileIron board.
Jim Clark, ex-Netscape, and TJ Jermoluk, ex-At Home, launch Beyond Identity platform for online identity ... Jace Kowalzyk, ex-Union Square Advisors, returns to Piper Sandler, now is managing director-IT, networking, cloud and infrastructure software sectors ... Virtru taps Renaud Perrier, ex-Google, as senior vice president-international business development and operations ... Sysdig promotes Omer Azaria to vice president-engineering, for secure, and hires Saro Subbiah, from Quid, as vice president-engineering and technology, for monitor and platform ... MediaCo New York Radio hires Ron deCastro, ex-Townsquare, as market president.
Comcast appoints Candy Lawson, ex-21st Century Fox, senior vice president-chief compliance officer-senior deputy general counsel ... Pete Villano, ex-House Armed Services Committee, becomes Microsoft Azure director-government affairs ... Hunton Andrews taps Kevin Hahm, ex-FTC, as partner-competition and consumer protection.
Silicon Flatirons moves: new senior fellows affiliated with Spectrum Policy Initiative David Redl, ex-NTIA, and with University of Colorado-Boulder professors Keith Gremban and David Reed; UC-Boulder professor Casey Fiesler named fellow affiliated with Telecommunications and Platforms Initiative; former Executive Fellows Dale Hatfield and Pierre de Vries and Colorado Attorney General-Silicon Flatirons founder Phil Weiser (D) become distinguished advisers, with Hatfield and de Vries remaining on the board, Spectrum Policy Initiative.
Covington & Burling hires Stacey Grigsby, ex-DOJ, as partner-commercial litigation ... In restructuring (see this section, April 10), Corning names senior vice presidents-general managers including John Bayne for mobile consumer electronics; Michael Bell, optical communication; Hal Nelson, automotive; and John Zhang, display.
AT&T hires Ed Gillespie as senior executive vice president-external and legislative affairs, replacing Jim Cicconi, retiring after returning last fall on interim basis; Gillespie comes from Sard Verbinnen ... Sard Verbinnen promotes Bruce Haynes to chairman, SVC Public Affairs, succeeding Gillespie; firm hires Trent Duffy, HDMK Public Affairs co-founder, to take over Haynes' last post as vice chairman, SVC Public Affairs, and Duffy also becomes co-head, Washington, office; Miriam Sapiro remains in both roles.
Mariah Shuman, ex-OneWeb, becomes head-domestic regulatory affairs, Amazon's Project Kuiper ... Mozilla moves interim CEO Mitchell Baker to permanent post ... Kevin McKinley, ex-Internet Association, joins Facebook’s public policy team ... Flex promotes Michael Hartung to president-agility solutions segment; Doug Britt resigning.
CTIA taps David Maloney, ex-Fuse Corps, as local affairs director-external and state affairs ... GoDaddy acquiring Neustar registry business, with Neustar’s Nicolai Bezsonoff to head GoDaddy Registry upon closing expected in Q2 ... XR Association names Laura Chadwick, from National Restaurant Association, senior director-industry relations ... Fox Rothschild names Bradley Gould, ex-Dorsey & Whitney, partner-intellectual property and patents.