Center for Democracy & Technology hires from New America's Open Technology Institute Liz Woolery as senior policy analyst-free expression ... Society of Professional Journalists hires Alison Bethel McKenzie, ex-International Press Institute, as executive director, its first African-American head, effective March 19, succeeding Joe Skeel, previously hired by Indiana State Bar Association (see 1708100025) ... Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Elaine Duke retires, effective in April ... Western Digital hires Lori Sundberg, most recently at Jacobs, as chief human resources officer, succeeding Jackie DeMaria, retiring ... Mobile Labs President Dan McFall adds title of CEO.
Ex-NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling hired by Internet Society as executive director, Collaborative Governance Project ... NAB adds April Carty-Sipp, ex-Disney, as senior vice president-TV, effective March 1 ... Entercom moves Becky Domyan to senior vice president-market manager, St. Louis, effective March 1; broadcaster is buying stations there from Emmis (see 1802230020) ... Disney's Freeform moves up to vice presidents Deena Beach for marketing strategy and Dalia Ganz for social media, digital marketing & synergy.
Georgia Public Service Commission unanimously elects Commissioner Lauren “Bubba” McDonald as chair for a two-year term, succeeding Commissioner Stan Wise, resigned from the commission (see 1802210022), succeeded by Tricia Pridemore, tech and workforce development expert, added to the PSC after Gov. Nathan Deal (R) appointed her to finish Wise's term through Dec. 31 ... WTA promotes in Washington office Derrick Owens to senior vice president-government and industry affairs and Eric Keber to succeed him vice president-government affairs.
Stan Wise steps down from Georgia Public Service Commission, where he was chairman since Jan. 1, 2017; Gov. Nathan Deal (R) will appoint a successor, who must run for election in November for a full six-year term ... Entercom hires Jim McCloud, ex-MLB, as executive vice president-national business development, new post ... Arris advances Germán Iaryczower to senior vice president-general manager, DOCSIS CPE business; Marcos Takanohashi succeeds him as senior vice president-sales, Caribbean and Latin America.
Sigfox IoT connectivity provider taps Christian Olivier, ex-Aversan, as president-Sigfox USA ... Sinclair moves Vice President Dave Schwartz to newly created vice president-sales operations ... FireEye moves up Craig Mueller to vice president-federal sales ... Carbon Black adds Tom Kellermann, ex-Strategic Cyber Ventures, as chief cybersecurity officer ... LBI Media appoints Nick Valls, ex-MundoMax, general manager of its recently acquired WGEN-TV Key West, Florida.
Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution promotes Greg Drebin to executive vice president-worldwide marketing ... U.S. Council for International Business picks Dina Kallay, Ericsson, as chair of its Competition Committee ... Senate confirmed John Demers as assistant attorney general-National Security Division.
Comcast's NBCUniversal promotes NBC's Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta to co-presidents, scripted programming, NBC Entertainment ... With Shaw Communications Chief Financial Officer Vito Culmone leaving, effective May 4, Executive Vice President Trevor English promoted to also become chief financial and corporate development officer ... CenturyLink expands responsibilities on strategic government executive leadership team that sells products to the federal government and some others: team reports to David Young, named regional vice president-strategic government; Scott Barnett named vice president-DOD sales; Seana Gilliland named vice president-program management office.
Center for Democracy & Technology adds Maurice Turner, ex-TechCongress congressional fellow on Republican staff of Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, as senior technologist, Election Security and Privacy Project ... Freshfields hires Eric Mahr, ex-DOJ Antitrust Division, as partner, antitrust practice, including transaction litigation ... Haug Partners taps Georg Reitboeck, ex-Kenyon & Kenyon, as IP litigation partner.
CBS names Mike Dean, ex-Disney ABC TV Group, to newly created position of senior vice president-advanced advertising and automation ... Raycom Media gives Scott Dempsey additional duty of regional group vice president, overseeing WIS Columbia, South Carolina, and in Georgia, WTOC Savannah and WFXG in Augusta; He remains vice president-general manager, WBTV Charlotte, North Carolina ... EBay names Jan Pedersen, ex-Twitter, vice president and chief scientist-artificial intelligence.
House Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., promotes Mike Bloomquist to staff director, succeeding Ray Baum, deceased (see 1802090018) ... SES board taps SES Networks CEO Steve Collar as president-CEO of the company, succeeding Karim Michel Sabbagh, leaving effective April 5 to spend time with family and pursue new interests, and also names recent Chief Financial Officer Andrew Browne of its O3b Networks as company's CFO, succeeding Padraig McCarthy, retiring during 2018 and stepping down from current job also on April 5 ... Common Cause hires Yosef Getachew, ex-Public Knowledge, as director-Media and Democracy Program, working with ex-Special Adviser Michael Copps.