DLA Piper names Angela DeMahy, ex-FCC International Bureau, as associate, Telecommunications Practice ... Sheppard Mullin adds three to Intellectual Property practice: from Baker Botts partner Harper Batts and special counsel Chris Ponder, and from Intel senior associate Jeffrey Liang ... Houlihan Lokey adds to Technology, Media and Telecom Group Roy Kabla, ex-Nomura, as group managing director-global co-head and Vikram Pandit, ex-JPMorgan, as group director.
SoftBank hires former Deputy Commerce Secretary Bruce Andrews, leaving Rock Creek Global Advisors, as vice president-global public policy ... Evolution Digital announces Cash Hagen, ex-WideOpenWest, as chief operating officer ... Library of Congress Kluge Center adds scholars including Henry Jenkins, University of Southern California communications professor ... Red Hat appoints Kevin Murai, ex-Synnex, to board
ExteNet Systems names Richard Coyle, ex-Digital Bridge Holdings, chief development officer, succeeding Eric Lekacz, leaving to pursue new opportunities ... PacketViper announces Don Gray, ex-VigilantMinds, as chief technology officer ... Meiotic hires from Cisco Justin Nimergood as chief revenue officer ... Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission appoints Michael Holko, ex-state Office for Information Technology, director, Office of Cybersecurity Compliance and Oversight ... President Donald Trump to nominate outgoing Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., as director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency.
Cort Bush, ex-Senate Commerce Committee staff, named senior director at NBCUniversal Media ... CBS TV Stations Group moves Justin Draper to vice president-general manager, CBS Television Stations’ Sacramento area properties, KOVR, Stockton and KMAX-TV, Sacramento and CBSSacramento.com ... SoundExchange promotes Richard Conlon to chief corporate development officer ... WWE names Brian Nurse, ex-Nestlé Waters North America, senior vice president-general counsel and secretary.
Trisha Anderson, ex-FBI, joins Covington & Burling as partner with practice in national security and government enforcement ... In Quadra Partners' alliance with Delta Partners, Quadra founders Paul de Sa, Ruth Milkman and Jon Wilkins become nonexecutive partners of Delta ... Glover Park Group hires Katie Myler, ex-Burson-Marsteller, as managing director-strategic communications.
Associate Deputy Attorney General Michael Murray joins DOJ Antitrust Division as deputy assistant attorney general and Lauren Willard, ex-Covington & Burling, joins division as counsel to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the division ... In Fox’s combining with Disney, Fox names Viet Dinh, ex-Kirkland & Ellis, chief legal and policy officer; Dinh leaves 21st Century Fox board ... Alexandra Verdiales, ex-Liberty Cablevision, joins AT&T as regional vice president-external affairs team ... Communications Director Corie Whalen leaves office of Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., to freelance ... BMI names Karen Buse, ex-PRS, managing director-European Society Relations.
Stephanie Roy, ex-Steptoe & Johnson, joins Perkins Coie as a partner, Technology Transactions and Privacy practice and with Communications industry group ... Virtual new directors are Steve Jones, ex-Association of Cable Communicators, which was taken over by the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (see 1702210049), and Melanie Tringali, ex-Cambridge Network, respectively, of client services and marketing communications, and promotions include Stacey Comito to vice president-marketing communications.
21st Century Fox General Counsel Gerson Zweifach stepping down following anticipated early 2019 close of asset sale to Disney, returning to Williams & Connolly ... Kaya Singleton, ex-Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, joins Entertainment Software Association as associate director-federal government affairs ... Ofcom names Mansoor Hanif, ex-BT, chief technology officer ... Denielle Pemberton-Heard leaves PBS for Diversified Search as general counsel-managing director.
FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly announces departure of his chief of staff-media adviser, Brooke Ericson, effective Oct. 31 ... Oath President and Chief Operating Officer Guru Gowrappan becomes CEO, effective Oct. 1, as founder Tim Armstrong remains strategic adviser through year-end ... American Public Television taps from PBS Shawn Halford as vice president of exchange content and digital services, succeeding Chris Funkhouser, retiring.
Covington hires ex-FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny as partner, Antitrust and Competition Law and Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice groups while ex-FBI Office of Legal Counsel Trisha Anderson, national security and cybersecurity lawyer, rejoins as a partner, also focusing on matters including surveillance and data privacy, and information technology and communications firms ... With Intel buying NetSpeed Systems, NetSpeed team joining Intel's Silicon Engineering Group led by Jim Keller; NetSpeed CEO Sundari Mitra continues leading her team as Intel vice president reporting to Keller.