TripAdvisor opens Washington office with Caitlin Brosseau, ex-Pandora, as senior director-U.S. public policy ... CBS and Viacom announce Anthony DiClemente, CBS, becomes executive vice president-investor relations upon ViacomCBS close ... Univision News promotes Maria Martinez-Guzman to senior vice president-executive news director.
MPAA no longer employs General Counsel Steven Fabrizio "for violating certain terms of employment" amid allegations of sexual abuse; Vice President-Deputy General Counsel Daniel Robbins becomes interim general counsel during search ... Imagine Entertainment adds Rich Battista, ex-Time, as CEO ... Sinclair promotes Michael Bouchard to vice president-technology strategy, One Media 3.0 ... Entercom names Paul Suchman, from CBRE, chief marketing officer ... GTT Communications Chief Financial Officer Mike Sicoli leaves, effective Sept. 30, "having accepted a more senior role with a data center and cloud solutions provider"; Senior Vice President Dan Fraser becomes interim CFO ... W2O appoints Dan Linton, ex-Intel, global data privacy lead, new position ... President Donald Trump nominating Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Assistant Administrator Bridget Bean to permanent position ... Patent and Trademark Office names Deputy Director Laura Peter and Chief Information Officer Henry Holcombe to Office Performance Review Board ... SatADSL appoints Serge Van Herck, ex-Newtec, board president.
AT&T Communications CEO John Donovan retiring, effective Oct. 1 ... OneWeb hires Eric Graham, ex-C Spire, for regulatory affairs-North America ... BearingPoint names Chetan Rangaswamy, ex-Hackett Group, partner-head, U.S. practice ... Entercom appoints Ken Lagana, from Megaphone, executive vice president-digital sales, new position ... Cisco buying CloudCherry, with latter’s team joining Cisco's Contact Center Solutions business, led by Vasili Triant, vice president-general manager.
Jones Day adds Nicole Smith, ex-Morrison & Foerster, as partner-intellectual property ... With Overstock CEO and board member Patrick Byrne’s resignation, Jonathan Johnson, president of subsidiary Medici Ventures, becomes also interim CEO, and Chief Algorithms Officer Kamelia Aryafar becomes also board member; Byrne’s resignation followed his acknowledgement of involvement in what he says realized was “political espionage” ... Qualcomm moves Akash Palkhiwala to interim chief financial officer, replacing interim CFO Dave Wise, who retires, remains consultant.
HP board promotes Enrique Lores, president of imaging and printing business, to succeed Dion Weisler as president-CEO, effective Nov. 1; Weisler stepping down "due to a family health matter and he will be returning home to Australia," remains at company through January, continues on board until next annual meeting; stock drops (see 1908220066) ... Westell names Timothy Duitsman, ex-Klein Tools, president-CEO, succeeding Stephen John, leaving.
Cato Institute hires Corie Whalen, ex-Office of Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., as director-media relations ... In Viacom/CBS, board members in addition to Shari Redstone and Bob Bakish (see this section, Aug. 14, and 1908130039) are, from CBS, Robert Klieger, Candace Beinecke, Barbara Byrne, Brian Goldner, Linda Griego, Susan Schuman and Frederick Terrell and from Viacom, Judith McHale, Ronald Nelson, Charles Phillips and Nicole Seligman.
Tessco Technologies announces Sandip Mukerjee, ex-Nokia, as CEO and board member, replacing Murray Wright, retiring following transition ... Wolfe Research Managing Director Marci Ryvicker to keynote Media Outlook 2020 conference Sept. 12 in New York ... OpenSUSE names Gerald Pfeifer, Suse, board chair, replacing Richard Brown, resigning ... Energous appoints Rahul Patel, Qualcomm, and Mike Noonen, MixComm, to its board, replacing Martin Cooper and Carol Lindstrom, stepping down.
White House hires Robin Colwell, ex-House Communications Subcommittee, as special assistant to the president for technology, telecommunications and cybersecurity policy-National Economic Council ... Ballard Spahr adds for media and entertainment as senior counsels Louis Petrich, Donald Gordon and Vincent Cox; of counsel Robert Gutierrez; and attorneys Daniel Mayeda, Elizabeth Schilken and Loralee Sundra, all ex-Leopold Petrich ... Fletcher Heald appoints ex-FCC intern Elizabeth Craig as associate-telecommunications.
Center for American Progress names Adam Conner, ex-Slack Technologies, vice president-technology policy team ... Crown Castle adds Staci Pies, ex-Google, as vice president-government and regulatory affairs.
Transportation Department General Counsel Steven Bradbury also now acting deputy secretary; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Deputy Administrator Heidi King resigning; DOT Deputy General Counsel James Owens becomes NHTSA deputy administrator and acting administrator; DOT Senior Counselor for Regulatory Reform Christina Aizcorbe becomes deputy general counsel ... Electronic Transactions Association names Jodie Kelley, from BSA|The Software Alliance, CEO, succeeding Jason Oxman (see this section, Jan. 25); interim CEO Amy Zirkle remains with association as vice president-industry affairs.