With Searchlight Capital Partners and ForgeLight media and consumer technology investor agreeing to buy most of Univision from all stockholders other than Televisa, ForgeLight founder Wade Davis becomes Univision CEO upon close, expected "later this year"; Univision CEO through then is Vince Sadusky, spokesperson confirms; no word on his next plans.
America's Communications Association hires Mike Jacobs as vice president-regulatory affairs; he came from ITTA, which is closing (see 2001150052); at ACA, Jacobs succeeds Mary Lovejoy, who left the cable association in June for the FCC, where she's attorney-adviser, Office of Economics and Analytics Auctions Division ... T-Mobile amends Executive Vice President-Corporate Services David Carey’s employment to end automatically July 1, with position termination April 30-July 1 ... Nick Martin, ex-Forbes Tate Partners, becomes communications director, office of Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash. ... WarnerMedia Entertainment integrates content acquisitions team across entertainment networks and direct-to-consumer business under Michael Quigley, executive vice president-content acquisitions, with Senior Vice Presidents Jonathan Melber for content acquisition, HBO Max, and Royce Battleman, for content acquisition, HBO, Cinemax, TNT, TBS and truTV; while Chris Grunden and Leslie Cohen add responsibilities for film acquisitions for HBO Max ... Taxpayers Protection Alliance adds Targeted Victory Vice President Nathan Leamer, ex-FCC, to board ... Center for a New American Security names Charles Clancy, Mitre; Jessica Cussins Newman, Future of Life Institute; and Chris Whitlock, Deloitte to Artificial Intelligence and National Security Task Force ... Content & Connectivity Human Resources appoints Kara Anderson, ESPN, and Jennifer Dunn, AMC Networks, to board.
Crowell & Moring adds Caroline Brown, ex-Treasury Department, as partner-international trade, including Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States review ... Global Cyber Alliance hires Leslie Daigle, ex-Internet Society, global technical officer, and Michael Tanji, ex-Carbon Black, global marketing officer and chief of staff ... Beacon Global Strategies announces Diane Rinaldo, ex-NTIA, as senior vice president ... Public Knowledge names Alex Petros, ex-office of Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., policy counsel, and Lisa Macpherson, ex-Pernod Ricard, senior policy fellow, and promotes Charlotte Slaiman to competition policy director ... Anna Lenhart, ex-IBM, joins House Antitrust Subcommittee as Tech Congress Fellow.
BakerHostetler announces Ann O’Brien, ex-DOJ, as partner-antitrust and competition ... Public Knowledge hires Sara Collins, ex-Future of Privacy Forum, as policy counsel.
Mintz hires Andrew Thorpe as member-securities and capital markets, including fintech, internet, semiconductor and telecom ... Wireless Infrastructure Association promotes Stephen Keegan to associate counsel-government affairs ... CompTIA announces Steve Kidera, ex-Tegna, as senior director-communications and public affairs.
CPB advances Katherine Arno to vice president-community service grants and station initiatives ... Nielsen names Sean Cohan, from A+E Networks, chief growth officer and president-international; advances Peter Bradbury to chief commercial officer-U.S.; and moves Karthik Rao to chief operating officer-Nielsen global media.
America’s Communications Association hires John Higginbotham, ex-Frankfort Plant Board, as executive vice president-membership and finance and chief of staff, succeeding Rob Shema (see this section, Feb. 14) ... Perkins Coie announces partners, from Vinson & Elkins, Andy Smetana, corporate-tech; Craig Tyler, patent litigation; and Wendy Wang, intellectual property; and from Wilson Sonsini, Jose Villarreal, also patent litigation ... DLA Piper taps, from Squire Patton, Matthew Miller as partner-cryptocurrency; Robert Nolan, partner-intellectual property; and Michael Fluhr, of counsel-blockchain and digital assets ... Industry Data Exchange Association names David Oldfather, ex-Jigsaw Systems, president-CEO.
America’s Communications Association Executive Vice President Rob Shema leaving to become CEO of ACA member ComNet, effective March 23 ... Van Bloys, ex-Davis Wright, becomes Crown Castle senior utility relations counsel ... Now at USTelecom is Director-Policy and Advocacy Farhan Chughtai, an FCC filing shows (see 2002130023); group tells us he was hired in April; Chughtai previously was at the Wireless Infrastructure Association.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Judge Sri Srinivasan becomes chief judge, succeeding Merrick Garland, who completes term, continues as active member of court ... Baker McKenzie taps Derek Liu, ex-Wilson Sonsini, as partner-mergers and acquisitions, tech ... Jessica Rich, ex-FTC, joins Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy as distinguished fellow.
Merchant & Gould announces James Beard, ex-Sherman & Howard, as partner-intellectual property litigation ... Hogan Lovells appoints Katelyn Petroka, ex-CNN, as specialist-strategic communications team ... SES appoints Sandeep Jalan, from Aperam, chief financial officer, effective May 6, succeeding Andrew Browne, who stepped down in October ... Sinclair hires Allyson Meyers, ex-Fox, for vice president-general manager, KTUL-TV Tulsa.