Covington hires Teena Sankoorikal, ex-Cravath, as partner-commercial litigation, including intellectual property ... Charles River Associates promotions to vice presidents include Hitesh Chawda, IT and telecom; Brian Langan, antitrust and competition economics, labor and employment; and Kimberly Schenk, intellectual property ... Best Buy General Counsel-Secretary Keith Nelsen resigns to pursue other interests, will remain an adviser through Sept. 1; Todd Hartman, secretary of Best Buy Distribution, assumes Nelsen’s duties as executive vice president-general counsel and chief risk & compliance officer.
Open Technology Institute promotes Andi Wilson Thompson to senior policy analyst and Amir Nasr to policy analyst ... American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council names David Wennergren, from Deloitte, CEO, effective May 13, replacing Executive Director Kenneth Allen, pursuing new opportunities ... Macom Technology Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Robert McMullan resigning for personal reasons, Conor Hegarty advances to principal financial officer and principal accounting officer ... Shift Technologies appoints Sean Foy, ex-Enjoy Technologies, chief operating officer.
Dickinson Wright taps Donald McPhail, ex-Taft Stettinius, as member, intellectual property litigation team ... CPB promotes Stephanie Aaronson to senior vice president-engagement ... CTAM adds Ryan Powers, ex-National Council for Behavioral Health, as senior vice president-communications and marketing, succeeding Anne Cowan, retiring (see this section, March 19) ... Crown Media Family Networks advances Kathleen Charapata to senior vice president-legal.
SoftBank executive investment team for recently launched SoftBank Innovation Fund focused on Latin America: SoftBank Group International CEO Marcelo Claure leads partner team: SoftBank’s Shu Nyatta and Paulo Passoni, ex-Third Point, for investments, and Andre Maciel, ex-JPMorgan, for structuring transactions, overseeing Brazil office ... Alaska Communications promotes William Bishop to senior vice president-chief operations officer, new post.
NCTA taps Jared Sher, ex-21st Century Fox, as chief counsel-program network policy and deputy general counsel, replacing Jill Luckett, retired (see 1903040070) ... Willkie Farr hires Alison Steger, ex-FCC (see 1902140012), as associate, communications and media group ... Software & Information Industry Association hires Jesse Spector, ex-aide to EU delegation to U.S., as director-technology policy ... Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen resigns; President Donald Trump names Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan acting secretary ... ITS America announces Amy Ford, ex-Colorado Transportation Department, as director, Mobility on Demand Alliance ... Sinclair promotes Barry Faber to president-distribution and network relations, and David Gibber to senior vice president-general counsel … Discovery appoints Nathaniel Brown, ex-21st Century Fox, executive vice president-global communications ... Great Hill Partners completes buy from Univision of Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion, which become G/O Media (see 1904080016), led by digital media executive Jim Spanfeller ... Microsoft hires Gregory Moore, ex-Google, as corporate vice president-health technology and alliances ... Viacom's MTV names Rory Brown, ex-Bleacher Report, head-digital and social, MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo, new position ... Energous names Dan Fairfax, ex-Brocade, to its board ... SES elects officers including Vice Chairpersons Tsega Gebreyes, Satya Capital, and Anne-Catherine Ries, Luxembourg Ministry for Media and Communications.
Squire Patton taps Eric Troutman, ex-Womble Bond, as partner, Telephone Consumer Protection Act litigation ... AT&T Vice President-Public Affairs Dan Gonzalez departing later this month ... Apple hires Ian Goodfellow, ex-Google, as director of machine learning-Special Projects Group ... Meredith promotes Kylee Krizmanic to editorial content director-Midwest Living and Meredith Travel Marketing Content Studio ... Senate Commerce Committee advances nominations of Heidi King as administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Ann Marie Buerkle to be a commissioner of the Consumer Product and Safety Commission.
ATSC names Madeleine Noland, from LG Electronics, president, effective May 15, succeeding Mark Richer, retiring (see this section, Jan. 17) ... CommScope completes acquisition of Arris (see 1904040054), with CommScope’s Marvin Edwards president-CEO of combined company and Arris’ Bruce McClelland becoming chief operating officer, Karen Renner chief information officer and Jason Friedrich vice president-government relations; names to board Daniel Akerson and Campbell Dyer, both of investor Carlyle Group.
Intel appoints George Davis, ex-Qualcomm, executive vice president-chief financial officer; Qualcomm board appoints Senior Vice President-Treasurer David Wise as interim CFO; Davis had been CFO there ... Signal Group announces Patrice Willoughby, ex-Invariant, as managing director-head of diversity and inclusion.
FCC taps Zac Champ, ex-Wireless Infrastructure Association, as chief of staff, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; WIA Head-Legislative Affairs Matt Mandel becomes acting head-government affairs; Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau names Greg Cooke, ex-Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, chief, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs ... TechFreedom hires Ian Adams, ex-R Street Institute, as vice president-policy ... Nick Hart, ex-Bipartisan Policy Center, named CEO, Data Coalition and interim president, Data Foundation.
NCTA adds Radhika Bhat, from Mintz Levin, as vice president-associate general counsel for legal and regulatory affairs, and Jamie Houton, ex-Union Pacific Railroad, as vice president-government relations ... Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon resigning ... Patrick Robertson, ex-FTI Consulting, launches Confluence Government Relations ... International Trade Commission adds Judge Cameron Elliot, ex-SEC, as an administrative law judge.