FCC Chairman Brendan Carr names Carlos Minnix, staff assistant to Commissioner Nathan Simington, to a similar post in his office.
Comcast taps David Novak, co-founder and former chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands, as board chairman of SpinCo, its spinoff of media brands and digital businesses.
FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks plans resigning this spring ... President Donald Trump appoints Adam Cassady, formerly chief of staff to FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, as acting assistant secretary of commerce-communications and information and acting NTIA administrator; once an assistant secretary is sworn in, Cassady becomes NTIA principal deputy assistant secretary and deputy administrator ... Broadcasters Foundation of America elects to board: Kristin Cantrell, Seven Mountains Media and CapCity Communications; Kate Riley, America’s Public Television Stations; and Peter Smyth, formerly Greater Media … Synthetic aperture radar firm Synspective names Kumar Navulur, formerly GeoCognition, CEO and president, Synspective USA … Crest Hill Advisors taps Victoria Flood, ex-Mehlman Consulting, as partner.
Departures at NTIA: BEAD Director Evan Feinman and Jennifer Manner, senior adviser-space and satellite policy ... Morgan Lewis names Loyaan Egal, ex-FCC official, as partner-telecommunications, media and technology practice ... AI and cloud firm CoreWeave appoints Meg Whitman, ex-CEO of eBay and Hewlett Packard, as independent board member, chair-nominating and corporate governance committee, and member-audit committee ... MediaJustice names Jacinta Gonzalez, formerly Mijente, head of programs, a new post.
House Communications and Technology Subcommittee names Parul Desai, formerly NTIA, chief minority counsel … Connecticut’s Executive and Legislative Nominations Committee approves nomination of David Arconti Jr., ex-Avangrid, as a commissioner of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, subject to General Assembly approval.
Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan, ex-Walden International, as CEO, succeeding David Zinsner, now executive vice president and CFO, and Michelle Johnston Holthaus, CEO-Intel Products; Tan also becomes executive board chair, replacing Frank Yeary, Darwin Capital, now independent chair … Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) reappoints Benjamin Barkley as chief executive and public counsel, Office of Public Utility Counsel, pending Senate confirmation … Government satellite network Rivada Select Services names to board Joe Maguire, University of Texas; John O'Connor, J.H. Whitney Investment Management; and Allen Parker, ex-Wells Fargo … TechNet taps Robert Boykin, formerly California Association of Health Plans, as executive director-California and the Southwest region.
CTIA names Ajit Pai, ex-Searchlight Capital Partners and former FCC chairman, president and CEO, effective April 1... Benton Institute for Broadband & Society promotes Revati Prasad to executive director, effective May 1, succeeding Adrianne Furniss, moving to senior fellow, Illinois program manager and adviser to Prasad.
NASA appoints Bethany Stevens, ex-office of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R), as press secretary, replacing Meira Bernstein … Waveform Architecture for Virtualized Ecosystems Consortium names Dubi Lever, Gilat Satellite Networks, as chair, replacing Anirban Chakraborty, Comtech Telecommunications … Wireline infrastructure firm Render names Stephen Rose, formerly IBM, its CEO, replacing Sam Pratt.
Sean Conway, ex-NTIA, rejoins Akin as a partner in its telecom, media and technology practice ... FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson names Jon Schweppe, formerly American Principles Project, as his senior policy adviser ... Center for Democracy & Technology taps Karen Kornbluh, ex-White House, as a visiting fellow ... Teleste appoints Guy McCormick, formerly Cox Communications, to its broadband networks advisory board.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth promotes Katie Arrington to acting DOD chief information officer, replacing Leslie Beavers, who again becomes principal deputy CIO ... Spectrum promotes Keith Dardis to executive vice president-Spectrum Business.