Nexstar promotes Ron Romines to senior vice president-regional manager and Jerry Brehm to vice president-general manager, WTEN Albany, New York, and associated mobile-digital operations ... Meredith advances Bryce Moore to vice president-digital content and Lee Morehouse to digital products manager ... Louis Libin, ex-HC2 Broadcasting, rejoins Sinclair as vice president-spectrum engineering and policy ... Summit Ridge Group adds Randy Reynolds, ex-Lord Abbett, as analyst-communications sector valuation and financial consulting.
After close of Apollo’s acquisition of Cox Media Group, the latter's President Kim Guthrie becoming CMG CEO ... Inte Q promotes Chris Duncan to president ... With FIS acquisition of Worldpay, latter company’s Mark Heimbouch becomes FIS president-merchant solutions; Stephanie Ferris, chief operating officer; and Charles Drucker board vice chairman ... CBS TV Stations names Lauren Crane, ex-Mirriad, vice president-multi-platform sales ... Shentel moves Chase Stobbe to principal accounting officer.
DOJ Antitrust Division Chief Makan Delrahim moves Rene Augustine to acting deputy assistant attorney general-division’s international and policy matters, replacing Deputy Assistant AG Roger Alford, returning to Notre Dame Law School as professor ... Boies Schiller hires Mark Mao, ex-Troutman Sanders, partner-data privacy practice ... CompTIA names Savannah Schaefer, ex-Telecommunications Industry Association, senior director ... SMPTE appoints Frank Kunkle, ex-American National Standards Institute, director-marketing ... U.S. Chamber of Commerce taps Chanse Jones, ex-Office of Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., as senior manager-media relations and external communications.
DOJ Deputy Spokesperson Jeremy Edwards says he’s becoming director of communications-Office of Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill. ... Consumer Reports names Benjamin Moskowitz, from International Rescue Committee, director of its newly launched Digital Lab ... Communication Service for the Deaf hires Rosa Lee Timm as chief marketing officer; she also remains with Deaf Counseling, Advocacy & Referral Agency ... Fiona Alexander, ex-NTIA, joins American University as distinguished policy strategist in residence at the School of International Service.
MPAA promotes to executive vice presidents Patrick Kilcur, U.S. government affairs, and Urmila Venugopalan, strategy and global operations; to senior vice presidents Jason Monagas, human resources and operations, and, in Brussels, Emilie Anthonis, policy, and Okke Delfos Visser, legal ... David Luna, Luna Global Networks & Convergence Strategies, and Louise Shelley, George Mason University, head new Anti-Illicit Trade Institute.
House Commerce Committee ranking member Greg Walden, R-Ore., announces Tim Kurth moves to Republican chief counsel, Consumer Protection Subcommittee, succeeding Melissa Froelich, leaving (see this section, July 18), and Evan Viau, ex-aide to Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., becomes GOP professional staff member, Commerce Committee ... Idaho Public Utilities Commission telecom analyst Carolee Hall, honored by a NARUC resolution recognizing her service, retiring, effective Aug. 30 ... DLA Piper adds Christopher Mooney and Maria Swiatek as partners-intellectual property and technology, both from Nixon Peabody.
NSA advances Anne Neuberger to director of new Cybersecurity Directorate combining agency’s foreign intelligence and cyber defense efforts ... Jonathan Lee, ex-McKinsey, becomes WhatsApp director-global public policy.
FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks appoints Alisa Valentin, from Public Knowledge, special adviser ... Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, announces Christianna Barnhart, ex-Charter Communications, as senior counsel-communications and technology policy.
CTA names Jamie Susskind, ex-FCC, (see this section, July 12) vice president-policy and regulatory affairs ... Aspen Institute adds to Communications and Society Program Managing Director Tricia Kelly responsibility for new Communications, Technology and Innovation Program, combining Communications and Society Program, Cybersecurity and Technology Program and the Center for Urban Innovation; names Lucas Welch, from Pluribus Project, head of new Attention and Democracy Initiative; promotes Dominique Harrison to project director-Communications and Society Program, and Kristine Gloria to associate director for artificial intelligence, for in-formation Emergent and Intelligent Technologies Initiative; and announces Cybersecurity Director Garrett Graff transitioning to run @CyberJournalism project and Dialogue on Public Libraries Director Amy Garmer, taking a leave of absence for sabbatical.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr names Joseph Calascione, Office of Economic Analysis, acting legal adviser-wireline issues, replacing Jamie Susskind (see 1907110069) ... Atlantic Council announces Trey Herr, ex-Microsoft, as director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative ... Access Partnership names Michael Clauser, ex-Analog Devices, global head-data and trust.