Disney International adds Rebecca Campbell, president-ABC Owned Television Station Group and ABC Daytime, as president-Disney Co. Europe, Middle East and Africa, effective Jan. 1; current President Diego Lerner to return to home in Buenos Aires, where he will be on Disney International management team ... Immersion hires from Telenav Hossam Bahlool as vice president-marketing ... Univision Communications moves up Carolina Nuñez to vice president-regional news director.
FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly hires Deputy Chief of Staff for Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Brooke Ericson as chief of staff, press contact and media adviser, effective Oct. 2, succeeding Robin Colwell, now at House Commerce Committee (see 1705260034) ... FCC's Louis Peraertz returns from Office of General Counsel to office of Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, as senior legal adviser on wireless, international and public safety; Daudeline Meme, wireless, international and public safety legal adviser, leaving Clyburn's office, didn't confirm plans.
Aerospace Industries Association names Eric Fanning, ex-Army secretary, president-CEO, effective Jan. 1; David Melcher now has those roles and is retiring at year's end ... Pandora hires Caitlin Brosseau, ex-eBay, as director-public policy and government relations, new post ... Sidley Austin taps Anthony Gardner, ex-U.S. ambassador to the EU, as senior counsel and member, International Trade and Privacy and Cybersecurity practices ... State Senate confirms Gov. Jerry Brown (D)'s appointments of his aides Martha Guzman Aceves and Clifford Rechtschaffen as California public utilities commissioners until Jan. 1, 2023 ... Cox Media Group promotes to market vice presidents Cathy Gunther for Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Dan Lawrie for Jacksonville, Florida.
Wilkinson Barker hires Jennifer Tatel, ex-FCC (see 1708140032 and this section of the Sept. 11 issue of this publication), as partner, focusing on media, privacy and internet policy ... AMC hires from Fox David Madden as president-original programming, AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios ... Sinclair promotes James Grilli to general manager, WKEF Dayton, Ohio, overseeing the broadcaster's provision of services to WRGT-TV Dayton ... Raycom names Bill Poplin, ex-WCTI-TV New Bern, North Carolina, as general manager/general sales manager, WPGX Panama City, Florida ... Simmons Research adds Arbitron alumnus and media industry consultant Brad Bedford as vice president-media sales.
Media Bureau Audio Division Chief Peter Doyle tells us he decided to stop working full time "in foreseeable future" and the FCC is looking for a successor ... Dell EMC Infrastructure Solutions Group President David Goulden to step down at the end of the fiscal year; Jeff Clarke moves to Dell Inc. vice chairman-products and operations ... President's nominations sent to the Senate, including for Walter Copan as undersecretary, Commerce-standards and technology ... With Digital Realty buying DuPont Fabros (see 1709150021), acquiree board members Michael Coke and John Roberts join the acquirer's board.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names Michael Carowitz, who was deputy Enforcement Bureau chief, as special counsel, Office of the Chairman; Nick Degani, who was senior counsel, became acting general counsel (see 1709080036) ... Arizona Corporation Commissioner Doug Little hired by federal Department of Energy as deputy assistant secretary-intergovernmental and external affairs, effective Oct. 2 ... Retiring from ESPN at year's end: Ed Durso, who has been executive vice president-administration; in January, Chief Counsel Diane Morse assumes Durso's seat on the ESPN board ... Netflix hires Melissa Cobb, ex-Dreamworks, as vice president-kids and family, overseeing the creation and acquisition of series and films for children and families, reporting to Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos.
Sean Farrell, aide to Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., joins House Communications Subcommittee staff ... Radcom names network virtualization expert David Amzallag, ex-Vodafone, special strategic adviser ... President Donald Trump to nominate Walter Copan, president-CEO of IP Engineering Group, as undersecretary of commerce-standards and technology.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names ex-Deputy Managing Director Dana Shaffer Wireless Bureau deputy bureau chief/chief of staff ... Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., announces promotions of Crystal Tully to policy director and counsel-communications and technology, Cort Bush to senior professional staff member, communications and technology policy team, and Brianna Manzelli, ex-Republican National Committee, joins committee as press secretary and digital director ... In Ballard Spahr's combining with Levine Sullivan First Amendment and media law firm effective Oct. 1, all of the latter law firm's 25 lawyers join the bigger firm; they include name partners Lee Levine, Michael Sullivan, Elizabeth Koch and David Schulz; plus attorneys Jay Ward Brown, Chad Bowman, Cameron Stracher and others.
Squire Patton adds Tony Scott, federal chief information officer under then-President Barack Obama, as senior data privacy and cybersecurity adviser ... Information Technology and Innovation Foundation hires from U.S. Chamber of Commerce Lindsay Bembenek as communications director ... National Association of Manufacturers hires include Michael Short, ex-Trump White House, as senior director-strategic communications, and Andrew Clark, ex-Independent Journal Review, as manager-digital communications, and NAM promotes others in Washington, including Keith Smith to senior vice president-public affairs and mobilization.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names Nick Degani, who was Pai's senior counsel, acting general counsel; Jennifer Tatel, who has been doing that job, departing for the private sector, no specific plans announced ... Sprint hires from Vodafone Ivo Rook to newly created position of senior vice president-IoT, effective Jan. 1; and he's liaison officer to SoftBank Group of companies involved in IoT ... Cox Media Group's Tom Raponi retiring from WFXT Boston, where he has been vice president-general manager, effective at year's end ... G+D Mobile Security adds Sridhar Ramachandran as vice president-IoT solutions, Americas region ... President Donald Trump nominations sent to the Senate for jurists include Gregory Katsas for U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (see this section of the Sept. 8 issue of this publication); Janice Brown had retired.