Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, hires for the conference Dominique McKay, ex-House Education and the Workforce Committee, as press secretary, and Adam Scheidler, House Financial Services Committee digital communications director, as creative director ... Seagate Technology CEO Steve Luczo shifts Oct. 1 to executive chairman, to be replaced as CEO by President-Chief Operating Officer Dave Mosley, who joins Seagate board ... Arizona Corporation Commission hires Holly Ward, ex-Arizona Department of Health Services, as communications director, leading the Communications Division, renamed from Media Services; and at the unit, Angie Holdsworth remains ACC communications manager-public information officer.

Carlyle Group Managing Directors Patrick McCarter and Cam Dyer promoted to co-heads, Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications team, effective Sept. 1, succeeding James Attwood, continuing as managing director, TMT team and on boards of firms Carlyle is invested in ... Univision Communications promotes Tonia O’Connor to chief revenue officer, new post; among her first actions as CRO is to appoint a successor to President-Advertising Sales and Marketing Keith Turner, retiring, effective at year's end (see this section of this publication's July 11 issue) ... Charter Communications hires Manish Jindal, ex-Ericsson, as group vice president-wireless R&D.

AT&T hires ex-public safety officials Ryan Burchnell and Fred Scalera as lead market development managers on FirstNet program ... U.K. commercial broadcaster ITV hires Carolyn McCall, ex-easyJet, as CEO, succeeding Adam Crozier, who stepped down in May to pursue other opportunities ... Christina Davis steps down as head-drama development, CBS Entertainment ... Kim Allman, ex-LifeLock, hired by Symantec to government affairs team following the company’s purchase of LifeLock, from which Tess Hetzel goes to work for the acquirer on corporate social responsibility issues.

FTC acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen selects Shearman & Sterling's Bruce Hoffman as acting director, Competition Bureau, effective Aug. 7, succeeding acting Director Markus Meier, who returns to leading the bureau’s Health Care Division ... National Cable Television Cooperative hires Jon Radloff, ex-Comcast and a consultant for NCTC since January, to newly created role of vice president-video solutions; he will help members modernize video platforms, focusing on advanced video ... Madison Square Garden Co.'s Barry Watkins, executive vice president-chief communications officer, stepping down, to take newly created role of special adviser, office of chairman; he remains chairman, Garden of Dreams Foundation.

Brownstein Hyatt hires Michael Pryor, ex-Cooley, as shareholder (equivalent to partner) and member of the litigation and government relations practices, practicing telecom law ... Harlin McEwen, ex-chairman of FirstNet Public Safety Advisory Committee (see 1704030020), retained by AT&T as consultant ... Together for Safer Roads, with members including AT&T, Ericsson, Facebook, General Motors, iHeartMedia and Walmart, adds David Braunstein, ex-IBM, which also is a member, as president ... Discovery Communications hires Fred Graver, ex-Twitter, as senior vice president-digital content and social, Discovery Digital.

Changes under acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen: Her aide Neil Chilson named (see here) acting chief technologist; at Economics Bureau, Director Ginger Zhe Jin departing agency to return to University of Maryland, with Ohlhausen advancing Michael Vita to acting director (see here); Jin came to the agency in 2015 as a fellow while on sabbatical from U.Md., where she is a professor of economics ... Gregory McCray resigns as CEO of the Google Access unit of Alphabet, which he was named to lead earlier this year (see this section of the Feb. 17 issue of this publication) ... BakerHostetler hires from Sheppard Mullin Laura Jehl as partner and member, privacy and data protection team.

U.S. Cellular hires Jay Spenchian, ex-Tempur Sealy International, as senior vice president-marketing ... CrowdStrike appoints Laurel Finch, ex-MobileIron, chief legal officer-secretary ... ReVolver Podcasts adds Maria Lopez-Alvarez, ex-Telemundo and Univision, as vice president-content and production ... Allot Communications taps Manuel Echanove, ex-Telefonica, for the board, succeeding Rami Hadar, stepping down to pursue other business interests ... Lobbyist registrations: Orbital ATK, Baker Botts, effective June 21 ... PrecisionHawk USA, registering for itself, effective June 1 ... Infineon Technologies Americas, The Markham Group and Team Hallahan, both effective June 1 ... HawkEye 360, Hogan Lovells, effective May 30.

Intelligent Transportation Society of America names David St. Amant, ex-Econolite, interim president-CEO, effective Aug. 1; Gridsmart Technologies adds outgoing ITS America CEO-President Regina Hopper, also ex-USTelecom, as senior vice president-global public policy, effective Aug. 1 ... U.S. Chamber of Commerce hires from Etsy Julie Stitzel as managing director, Chamber Technology Engagement Center ... Blank Rome hires Andrea Markstrom, ex-Faegre Baker Daniels and Target, as chief information officer.

Garvey Schubert expands Communications, Telecom & Media practice, adding from Schwartz, Woods Lawrence Miller and Steven Schaffer as of counsel, working on public and other broadcasting and media issues ... Davis Wright hires (see here) Cristina Chou, ex-Charter Communications/Time Warner Cable, as partner ... NCTA adds from MPAA Joanna McIntosh as senior vice president-government affairs, effective in September, succeeding Rita Lewis, who recently stepped down to a part-time role there; Cliff Riccio moves up to deputy, Government Relations department ... Massachusetts state Rep. Brian Dempsey (D), who has been on telecom, technology and other committees, hired by Mintz, Levin's ML Strategies consulting subsidiary as senior vice president-chief operating officer, effective in September; a spokesman for his new firm confirmed to us that Dempsey is leaving the legislature before he starts his new job; Dempsey didn't comment.

FCC adds Jennifer Holtz, ex-Kelley Drye, as deputy chief, Public Safety Bureau Cybersecruity and Communications Reliability Division ... Joining Sidley Austin M&A practice from Greenberg Traurig: Daniel Serota as partner working on telecom, media and technology among other mergers and acquisitions ... Law firm Keesal Young hires Wendy Riggs from Twitter as senior adviser and starts Compliance, Operations and Data Control Advisory division ... Aerospace Industries Association adds David Silver, ex-Boeing, as vice president/leader-Civil Aviation Division, working on incorporating unmanned systems in U.S. airspace and other issues involving the Federal Aviation Administration.