Lindsay Bierman, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, stepping down to become CEO, UNC-TV Public Media North Carolina, effective Aug. 12, succeeding Brian Sickora, departed October, and Steven Hammel and Kevin FitzGerald in interim capacities since ... Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission appoints Seth Mendelsohn, from Pennsylvania Insurance Department, as executive director, replacing Jan Freeman, stepping down and serving as adviser to Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille until June 28.
FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau appoints Diane Burstein, ex-NCTA (see this section, Jan. 6), as deputy bureau chief ... NTIA names Rachel Wolbers, ex-Engine, internet policy specialist, international affairs ... Vedder Price taps Daniel Shulman, ex-Reynolds Group, as shareholder-intellectual property ... Towerstream Chief Financial Officer Jack Macdonald resigning, effective June 7.
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, elevates Eric Einhorn to chief of staff ... TechNet taps Trent Edwards, ex-Congressional Leadership Fund, as vice president-membership and strategic partnerships ... Snap promotes Derek Andersen to chief financial officer, replacing interim CFO Lara Sweet, who moves to chief people officer while continuing as chief accounting officer until replacement is found.
Entravision's Esteban Lopez Blanco stepping down as chief strategy officer ... Fox News names from Viant Technology Jeff Collins as executive vice president-advertising sales ... Socket Mobile promotes Lynn Zhao to vice president-finance and administration, secretary and chief financial officer, also nominates her to board; David Dunlap retiring, continuing as consultant ... Akash Systems, RF satellite communications firm, hires industry veteran Fabrizio Montauti as vice president-radios.
AT&T's WarnerMedia appoints Kevin Brockman, from Disney, as executive vice president-global communications, WarnerMedia Entertainment; and in another move by WarnerMedia Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt, he extended Kevin Reilly’s contract through 2022; Reilly’s post expands to include all WarnerMedia Entertainment basic cable networks as president, TBS, TNT and truTV, and chief content officer, WarnerMedia direct-to-consumer; truTV President Chris Linn decides to leave.
Macom Technology adds its board member Stephen Daly as CEO-president, succeeding John Croteau, resigned ... Returning to Entravision: Karl Alonso Meyer as chief revenue and product officer ... At CommScope, where Kevin Keefe rose to senior vice president-segment leader of network and cloud and professional services (see this section, May 16), he had succeeded Dan Whalen, who has left the company, a spokesperson tells us.
Sheppard Mullin taps Robert Masters and Jonathan DeFosse, both from Fried, Frank, as partners-intellectual property ... Immersion appoints Mike Okada, from Dolby Labs, general counsel and senior vice president-intellectual property licensing and legal affairs, replacing Amie Peters, leaving.
800response names Jay Rosenblatt, ex-Conduit Global, CEO, succeeding Mitchell Knisbacher, retires ... Verizon hires Patrick Donovan, ex-CTIA, as vice president-public safety policy ... PBS taps Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, ex-InsideClimate News, as public editor-ombudsman ... George Mason University names Sean O’Connor, from University of Wisconsin School of Law, Scalia Law School professor and executive director of Center for Protection of Intellectual Property.
Entertainment Software Association names acting CEO-President Stanley Pierre-Louis to those positions permanently ... Directors Guild of America names Celeste Drake, ex-AFL-CIO, head-government affairs ... DLA Piper taps Andrew Serwin, ex-Morrison & Foerster, as partner-intellectual property and technology ... ML Strategies hires Christian Fjeld, ex-Senate Commerce Committee, as vice president ... Goodwin adds David Callaway, ex-U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California computer hacking and intellectual property unit, as partner-white collar defense ... National Conference of State Legislatures promotes Tim Storey to executive director, effective July 15, succeeding William Pound, retiring.
MPAA promotes Gail MacKinnon to senior executive vice president-global policy and government affairs ... Kelley Drye adds David Clonts and Kevin Cadwell, both from Akin Gump, as partners-intellectual property; Monica Moussighi, ex-Moussighi Law, joins as special counsel, background in electrical engineering ... National Safety Council appoints Lorraine Martin, from Pegasus Springs Foundation, CEO-president ... Library of Congress' Gayle Osterberg leaves as director-communications.