Cox Communications hires Nneka Chiazor, ex-Verizon, as vice president-public and government affairs, Virginia region ... FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said he added Drema Johnson, ex-office of Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, as confidential assistant; Natalie Martinez, acting confidential assistant, rejoins Office of General Counsel ... Internet Association hires Brian Larkin, ex-Brookings Institution fellow with Senate Finance Committee, as director-cloud policy ... European telecom carrier Veon promotes Josh Drew to group chief compliance officer.
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said she has named Travis Litman, who has worked as her aide before and was Wireline Bureau Telecom Access Policy Division assistant chief, as chief of staff and senior legal adviser-wireline and public safety issues; Kate Black, ex-Emily's List, as policy adviser-media issues; and from Office of Managing Director Lashion Pratt as staff assistant ... Marni Walden, Verizon executive vice president/president-global media, leaves company, effective in February, and effective Dec. 31, moves to strategic adviser and continues reporting to CEO Lowell McAdam until departure; after that, Oath CEO Tim Armstrong continues, reports directly to McAdam; and telematics organization reports to John Stratton, executive vice president/president-global operations.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr adds Jamie Susskind, who rejoins the agency and was an aide to Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., as chief of staff/legal adviser-wireline issues; Nathan Eagan, acting legal adviser-wireline detailed from Wireline Bureau, rejoins the bureau ... Crowell & Moring adds Maarten Stassen, ex-Deloitte, as senior counsel, Privacy and Cybersecurity Group, in Brussels ... Joining comScore: Gregory Fink, ex-Fannie Mae, as executive vice president-finance ... CableLabs hires Bernardo Huberman, ex-Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as a fellow and vice president, Core Innovation Team, succeeding Peter Smyth, retiring.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai appoints Eric Burger, ex-Security and Software Engineering Research Center, chief technology officer, succeeding Henning Schulzrinne, returned to Columbia University ... Information Technology Industry Council hires from BusinessEurope Guido Lobrano to start "permanent presence in Europe" as senior director-global policy for Europe ... NTCA promotes Leif Oveson to vice president-legislative affairs ... Newly elected partners at Goodwin include promotion of Samuel Sherry, Litigation Department and Intellectual Property Group, representing software, communications, computer hardware, optical storage and other clients.
Comcast hires Brian Josef, ex-CTIA, industry officials tell us; company later will announce his job title ... Departing Univision: Bert Gómez, senior vice president-government relations, who tells us he will announce next steps later ... NAB's Marcellus Alexander, executive vice president-NAB Television, relinquishes that job, effective Dec. 31, remaining president, NAB Education Foundation ... CTA Senior Vice President-Communications and Strategic Relationships Jeff Joseph leaves post-CES 2018, which ends Jan. 12, "to pursue consulting ventures and other strategic communications opportunities" ... Retiring from 21st Century Fox, effective year-end: Kathy Ramsey, senior vice president/chief operating officer-government relations.
Sheppard Mullin hires Kari Rollins from Winston & Strawn as partner, Privacy and Cybersecurity practice ... ComScore retains Joseph Rostock, ex-Inovalon Holdings, in newly created role of chief information officer, and promotes Yvonne Bigbee to chief technology officer, a job she did on interim basis ... J2 Global names CEO of its Ziff Davis Vivek Shah to succeed Nehemia Zucker as CEO, effective Jan. 1, when he joins OCV venture capital firm organized by j2 Chairman Richard Ressler.
NATOA Executive Director-General Counsel Steve Traylor retiring, effective in December; board moves up Tonya Rideout to transitional director, and she takes over as executive director "in the New Year" and tells us she also remains chief financial officer; Rideout will do a search for a new general counsel; and the association will also look for a new deputy director, a job Rideout also had done ... Among longtime staffers retiring from FCC are Geraldine Matise, chief of staff and associate chief, Office of Engineering and Technology ... Dorsey & Whitney adds from Winstead Brian Vanderwoude to Trial Group as partner, working on issues including intellectual property.
At Equifax, Chairman-CEO Richard Smith retires, will be unpaid adviser to help with transition; board member Mark Feidler, partner of MSouth, named non-executive chairman; Paulino do Rego Barros, most recently president-Asia Pacific, named interim CEO; Feidler apologizes on board's behalf for Equifax cybersecurity breach (see 1709110035 and 1709260021) ... Adams and Reese adds Michael Bednarek, ex-Locke Lord, as partner and member, global Intellectual Property practice ... Crowell & Moring hires Alexis Gilman, ex-FTC, as partner, global Antitrust Group ... SEC forms Cyber Unit targeting "cyber-related misconduct" with staff from Enforcement Division: Robert Cohen named chief and continues leading Market Abuse Unit.
NCTA senior vice presidents retiring, effective this fall: Jadz Janucik, association affairs, and Barbara York, industry affairs ... Sheppard Mullin adds as partner Liisa Thomas from Winston & Strawn as co-leader, Privacy and Cybersecurity practice ... Leaving ICANN: Vice President-Government Engagement Anne-Rachel Inne ... Cox Communications promotes Philip Nutsugah to senior vice president-product development and management; Steve Necessary, who led major video initiatives and managed product portfolio, retiring, effective at year's end ... Salem Media Group promotes Steve Brodsky to general manager San Diego cluster KPRZ(AM) San Marcos-Poway and KCBQ(AM) San Diego.
Akamai promotes Aaron Ahola to succeed Melanie Haratunian as senior vice president-general counsel-corporate secretary, effective Oct. 1; Haratunian retiring, remains in advisory role reporting to CEO Tom Leighton ... Burns & Levinson adds cybersecurity and data privacy attorney Peter McLaughlin, ex-DLA Piper, as partner, Intellectual Property Group ... Quantcast adds Steven Wolfe Pereira, ex-Neustar, recently taken private by Golden Gate Capital, as chief marketing and communications officer ... Combined Public Communications inmate phone service provider appoints from Ernst & Young IT Advisory practice Peter Hidalgo as chief commercial officer.