Patent and Trademark Office hires Hope Shimabuku, ex-Xerox, as director, new Texas regional office, new position, effective in January ... FirstNet said it names to user advocacy team as area leads Jeff King for regions I-V and Steven Smith, both ex-Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for regions VI-X; Lori Stone, ex-Maryland state official, for Region III; and Michael Varney, ex-Connecticut official, Region I; and as federal consultation liaisons Tiffany Perry, ex-CACI, and Charlotte Whitacre, ex-Department of Justice ... SiriusXM hires Jack Vaughn, ex-New Wave Entertainment, as senior vice president-comedy programming ... magicJack VocalTec hires Keith Reed, ex-Intuit, as general manager/senior vice president-enterprise sales.
Rejoining Willkie Farr is Daniel Alvarez, ex-aide to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, as a partner, Communications, Media & Privacy Department, focusing on cybersecurity, Internet and privacy ... Globecast hires Philippe Bernard, ex-Orange Group, as chairman-CEO, succeeding Olivier Barberot ... National Music Publishers’ Association promotes Charlotte Sellmyer to senior vice president-external affairs ... Disney promotes Renu Thomas to executive vice president-media operations, engineering and IT, Disney|ABC Television Group ... Copyright Clearance Center hires Boris Vulikh, ex-Google's ITA Software, as director-data engineering ... Sinclair launches digital news site Circa and hires as chief creative officer John Solomon, ex-Washington Times ... Gannett hires Joanne Lipman, Surrey Lane Media, as chief content officer, new position, and Daniel Bernard, ex-Time Inc., as chief product officer ... Scripps Networks promotes Courtney White to senior vice president-programming, Travel Channel.
National Association of Tower Erectors newly elects to 2016 board Kevin Dougherty, Millennia Contracting ... Lobbyist registrations: ex2 Technology, a broadband infrastructure firm, Fox Rothschild, effective Dec. 1 ... Financial Innovation Now, mobile payments firm, Franklin Square Group, effective Nov. 2.
FTC names Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University, chief technologist, effective next month, succeeding Ashkan Soltani ... Wilson Electronics hires Bruce Lancaster, ex-Logitech, as CEO, succeeding Donald Blohm, who continues in an advisory role as Sorenson Capital operating partner ... MPAA hires Chris Ortman, ex-CreativeFuture and briefly consultant, as vice president-corporate communications/chief spokesperson, succeeding Kate Bedingfield, hired in August as communications director for office of Vice President Joe Biden, and promotes Sam Newton to deputy director-corporate communications ... Windstream promotes Sarah Day to permanent president-consumer and small business unit, effective Jan. 1 ... AT&T moves John Dwyer to president-Cricket Wireless, succeeding Jennifer Van Buskirk, named president-AT&T Northeast region.
Jenner & Block promotes communications lawyer Sam Feder to managing partner, Washington office ... Interactive Advertising Bureau hires Dave Grimaldi, ex-Pandora, as executive vice president-public policy, and head, Washington office, effective in January ... Entertainment Software Association names directors, Federal Government Affairs department: Nika Nour, ex-Internet Association; Melissa Foxman, ex-Women’s High-Tech Coalition; and Kevin O’Hanlon, promoted ... National Music Publishers’ Association promotes General Counsel Danielle Aguirre to also be executive vice president.
Wilkinson Barker hires wireless lawyer John Scott, ex-Verizon, as of counsel ... Davis Polk hires Mary Marks, ex-Greenberg Traurig, as counsel, Antitrust and Competition Group ... Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers hires Chris Bastian, ex-Comcast, as senior vice president-chief technology officer, effective Dec. 14 ... AMC Networks names as AMC Studios senior vice presidents Valerie Cabrera, ex-Entertainment One, for distribution, and Melissa Landau, ex-Viacom, for business affairs ... NXP Semiconductors names Dan Durn, ex-Freescale Semiconductor, which is combining with NXP, executive vice president-chief financial officer, succeeding Peter Kelly, who will retire in 2017 ... Infoblox hires Atul Garg, ex-Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as executive vice president-engineering ... Entercom hires Liana Huth, ex-Madison Square Garden Co., as vice president-programming innovation, new position ... Mellanox promotes Freddy Gabbay to vice president-software ... GTT hires Luca Smuraglia, ex-Level 3, as vice president-Europe, Middle East and Africa enterprise business.
Hogan Lovells hires Alexi Maltas, ex-Cablevision, as partner, Communications Practice Group, focusing on cable, new media, pay-TV, Internet services and wireless issues ... CTIA hires Maria Kirby, ex-aide to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, as assistant vice president-regulatory affairs and associate general counsel, focusing on emerging technologies, the IoT and international spectrum ... Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Mike Lee, R-Utah, Chief of Staff Boyd Matheson stepping down to become a consultant to Lee's re-election campaign, succeeded by Allyson Bell, promoted, effective in January ... CBS promotes Jeff Shultz to senior vice president-business development, CBS Radio ... CloudPay hires Brian Radin, ex-Trulify, as chief revenue officer, new position.
Keysight Technologies adds to board Mark Templeton, ex-Citrix Systems, effective Dec. 1 ... Lobbyist registrations: CenturyLink, The Washington Tax & Public Policy Group, effective Oct. 15 ... TracFone Wireless, Wiley Rein, effective Nov. 2.
FCC hires Jonathan Mayer, computer science expert and lawyer who has been at Stanford University, as chief technologist, Enforcement Bureau, where he will work on issues including privacy and security ... Palo Alto Networks hires Lucas Moody, ex-Intuit, as chief information security officer ... Returning to PCTel is Sumeet Paul, ex-Synchronoss Technologies, to lead its SeeHawk Analytics operation.
Marathon Strategies hires Valery Galasso, who left FCC as aide to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel (see 1511190031), as vice president-public affairs and public policy ... FTC promotes Ginger Zhe Jin, on sabbatical from the University of Maryland, to director, Economics Bureau, effective in January and succeeding Francine Lafontaine, returning to University of Michigan, and hires Alison Oldale, Compass Lexecon, as bureau’s deputy director-antitrust, effective next month ... Sprint hires Jorge Gracia, ex-Samsung Electronics America, as senior vice president-general counsel, effective Jan. 2, succeeding Charles Wunsch, leaving Sprint, effective Jan. 29 ... Vonage hires Susan Quackenbush, ex-Presidio, as chief human resources officer, effective Nov. 30 ... ViaWest hires Jason Nance, ex-SunGard Availability Services, as senior vice president-sales... Lobbyist registration: Twilio, Millennial Bridge Consulting, effective Oct. 23.