Pillsbury Winthrop hires Shaalu Mehra, from Gibson Dunn, as partner-leader, global technology policy ... Senate confirms Keith Krach, ex-DocuSign, as undersecretary of state-economics and Privacy Shield spokesperson ... Senate Judiciary Committee OKs Edward Felten for member, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
Peter Cleveland, Intel's top in-house lobbyist, leaving the company, where he has run the Washington office ... CPB names Shana Teehan, ex-office of Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, vice president-communications ... Blockchain Association hires Jacob Hample, from Vogel Group, as senior manager-public policy.
Cooley hires Emily Harrison, ex-Cahill Gordon, as associate-communications group ... IBM taps Ryan Hagemann, ex-International Center for Law & Economics, as a technology policy executive ... Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) names John Evans, from state’s Department of Information Technology, Maryland’s first chief information security officer.
Wesley Wright, Keller and Heckman, becoming also NG9-1-1 Institute executive director; Keller and Heckman's Kathleen Slattery, deputy director ... CompTIA names Cinnamon Rogers, ex-Telecommunications Industry Association, executive vice president-public advocacy, promotes Stefanie Holland and Alexi Madon to vice presidents, respectively, federal-global policy and state government affairs ... House Commerce Committee names Justin Discigil, ex-Office of Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., press secretary for Commerce Republicans ... Goodwin adds David Mardle and Adrian Rainey, both from Taylor Wessing, as partners-including for technology.
Liberty Global CEO, Eastern European Group and Chairman, UPC Switzerland Eric Tveter departing; Robert Redeleanu moving to CEO-Eastern Europe ... ASCAP names Brooke Eplee, ex-Vevo, senior vice president-strategy and business development ... Amazon hires Washington Deputy Mayor Brian Kenner as senior manager-economic development ... GTT Communications taps Ernie Ortega, ex-Towerstream, as division president-Americas ... Mitre adds Jerry Hogge, ex-Leidos, as senior vice president-public sector ... Intel appoints Zack Weisfeld, ex-Microsoft, general manager-managing director, new program for startups Ignite ... Crown Media Family Networks names Liza Rodriguez Krontilik, ex-Discovery, vice president-ad sales marketing.
Computer & Communications Industry Association promotes Matthew Schruers to chief operating officer and Marianela Lopez-Galdos to global competition counsel ... Alaska Communications CEO Anand Vadapalli departing, remaining as adviser through year; Chief Operating Officer William Bishop becomes interim CEO ... Cobham promotes Shawn Black to president, replacing Jill Kale, retiring ... Twitter names James Loduca, from Salesforce, senior director-inclusion and diversity.
Porter Wright appoints Michael Sullivan, ex-Mayer Brown, partner-wireless and telecom ... Newly launched Enterprise Cloud Coalition names Andrew Howell of Monument Advocacy executive director ... Porter Hedges announces Miranda Jones, ex-Heim Payne, is partner-patent litigation ... Feinberg Day adds intellectual property litigators: Robert Kramer and Russell Tonkovich, both from Dentons, as partners; Kate Hart and Aidan Brewster, also both ex-Dentons, as, respectively, of counsel and associate; and Nick Martini, ex-Haynes and Boone, of counsel.
Ariel Wolf, ex-Department of Transportation, rejoins Venable as counsel, working on e-commerce, privacy and cybersecurity ... XR Association names Elizabeth Hyman, ex-CompTIA, its first CEO ... Zipwhip appoints Faye Ricci, ex-Bank of America, senior vice president-general counsel-secretary ... Industry Data Exchange Association names Kevin Corcoran, ex-1WorldSync, vice president-sales and marketing.
Mayer Brown lead partner-cybersecurity and data privacy Rajesh De becomes also managing partner, Washington office, succeeding Daniel Masur, continuing to lead technology transactions ... Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners nominates Mississippi Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley as president, NARUC; election in November ... Waymo hires Monique Meche, ex-Albright Stonebridge Group, as global head-public policy and Mufaddal Ezzy, ex-Google, for co-head-state policy ... Cornerstone Government Affairs names Connie LaRossa, ex-General Dynamics Information Technology, senior vice president.
Jane Sanchez, law librarian of Congress, becomes also deputy librarian, Library Collections and Services, a post she held in acting capacity ... Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations promotes Steve Francis to assistant director, HSI-led Global Trade Investigations Division, and director, National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center ... Perkins Coie names Eric Greenberg, ex-Paul Hastings, partner-technology transactions and privacy and mergers and acquisitions ... Monument Advocacy hires Anderson Heiman, ex-Office of Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., as principal-technology, cybersecurity and trade.