DLA Piper announces partners Marius Domokos, from Wilson Sonsini, for intellectual property and tech, and Kristin Jacobson, ex-Sprint, for IP, tech and telcom ... Paul Hastings adds Aaron Charfoos, ex-Jones Day, as partner-cybersecurity, privacy and data protection lawyer ... Copyright Office advances Sarah Garske to deputy director, Copyright Modernization Office ... NPR names Kelly McBride, from Poytner Institute, public editor, succeeding Elizabeth Jensen, concludes term ... Ansley Erdel, ex-Alpine Group, joins Salt Point Strategies.
Among other personnel moves (see this section, April 3), Public Knowledge promotes Meredith Whipple to digital outreach director ... Patrick Lin, California Polytechnic State University, joins Center for a New American Security Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security ... Code Dx announces Martin Weber, ex-Cisco, as senior vice president-worldwide sales; promotes Curtis Bragdon to vice president-business development and public sector ... Seaborn Networks appoints Michel Marcelino, from Vogel Telecom, senior vice president, head-Latin America ... President Donald Trump nominating judge for the Western District of Kentucky Justin Walker to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Public Knowledge hires Michele Ambadiang, ex-Inter-Progress, for events and development manager, and Courtney Lee, ex-Sunlight Foundation, is director-finance and administration ... Michelle McClure, ex-Fletcher Heald, joins Spire Global as regulatory and legislative affairs counsel ... Center for a New American Security names Tony Samp, DLA Piper, adjunct senior fellow-technology and national security ... President Donald Trump names White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Kelvin Droegemeier also acting director, National Science Foundation, succeeding France Cordova, term ends, as Senate considers nomination of Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State University.
ICANN Senior Vice President-Global Domains Division Cyrus Namazi leaves; Senior Vice President-Multistakeholder Strategy and Strategic Initiatives Theresa Swinehart also leads GDD in interim ... WarnerMedia names Jason Kilar, ex-Vessel, CEO ... Axinn adds Craig Minerva, ex-DOJ, as counsel-antitrust ... Latham & Watkins announces Nicholas Boyle, ex-Williams & Connolly, as partner-complex commercial litigation; his clients include software and technology companies, business-to-business data sellers and movie studios ... CTIA announces Sarah Versaggi, ex-USTelecom, as assistant vice president-government affairs and Joe Joiner, ex-National Restaurant Association, as PAC director.
Harris Wiltshire announces Rashmi Doshi, ex-FCC (see this section, Jan. 31), is technology policy adviser ... DOD acting Deputy Chief Information Officer-Command, Control, Communications and Computers and Information Infrastructure Capabilities Fred Moorefield lists permanent position; Pentagon didn't comment ... Charles River Associations advances Matthew List to vice president-antitrust and competition economics.
Cat Blake, ex-Next Century Cities, becomes civic technology analyst, CTC Technology & Energy ... With WOW CEO Teresa Elder hospitalized for COVID-19, Bill Case moves to acting CEO and Chairman Jeff Marcus temporarily takes executive chairman role (see 2003300002) ... GTY Technology moves: TJ Parass, ex-Questica, becomes CEO, succeeding Stephen Rohleder, leaving company, and Parass joins board; director Bill Green moves to chairman; David Farrell, CEO, Sherpa unit, becomes also GTY chief operating officer.
Axinn announces Koren Wong-Ervin, ex-Qualcomm, as partner-antitrust ... Wiley names to new COVID-19 group Task Force and Resource Center: Privacy, Cyber and Data Governance Chair Kathleen Kirby, and from that practice Megan Brown, Jon Burd, Matthew Gardner, Duane Pozza and Antonio Reynolds; Telecom, Media and Technology co-Chairs David Gross and Kirby, and from that practice Scott Delacourt, Anna Gomez, Jennifer Hindin and Joshua Turner; and Wiley's Signal Group-Strategic Communications and Digital Solutions Chair John Procter and from that group Blake Androff and Robert Bole.
In creating Sony Electronics (see 2003260018), Sony shifts Shigeki Ishizuka to CEO and Ichiro Takagi to chief operating officer of the new holding company ... Groupon moves Aaron Cooper to interim CEO, replacing Rich Williams, who remains at company; Steve Krenzer no longer chief operating officer, but also remains employee ... Anterix names Ryan Gerbrandt, from Trilliant Networks, chief operating officer.
Communications lawyer Mark Palchick, ex-Womble Bond, joins Lerman Senter ... American Intellectual Property Law Association Executive Director Lisa Jorgenson departing; Vincent Garlock moves to acting executive director ... Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing promotes Eric Kaika to CEO, effective April 1, succeeding Claude Stout, retiring as executive director May 31 ... Halloran Farkas hires financial technology lawyer Linda Lerner, ex-Crowell & Moring, as partner, heading newly opened New York office ... Maynard Cooper taps Chris Harnett as shareholder-intellectual property.
Sean Pugh, ex-Senate Judiciary Committee, joins Faegre Drinker as counsel-antitrust litigation ... Pennsylvania Cable Network advances Debra Kohr Sheppard to president-CEO, succeeding Brian Lockman, retiring and remaining on board and as senior adviser ... MAVTV promotes Dan Teitscheid to president; hires John Duff as head-content.