NPR announces Web Summit’s Katherine Maher as president-CEO, succeeding John Lansing, effective March 25 … Alteryx, analytics cloud platform, appoints Chief Financial Officer Kevin Rubin interim CEO, replacing departed Mark Anderson ... USTelecom elects Kristi Moody, Windstream executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer, and Amy Holcroft, Twilio chief privacy officer, to its board, and adds Lightcurve President-CEO Anand Vadapalli to its leadership committee ... LG Ad Solutions, connected TV and cross-screen advertising platforms, restores Alphonso founders Ashish Chordia and Lampros Kalampoukas to the board after successful legal challenge to their December 2022 removal, and names Alphonso early investor Paul Falzone, managing partner-CEO of venture capital firm Manifest, as an additional director.
FCC commissioners announce staff changes: Sanford Williams moves from special adviser to deputy chief of staff in Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel’s office; Arpan Sura, from Wireless Bureau, becomes legal adviser to Commissioner Brendan Carr; Milla Anderson, from office of Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H., named policy adviser to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks; and acting staffers in Commissioner Anna Gomez’s office taking permanent spots are Deena Shetler as chief of staff-legal adviser for media and international, Edyael Casaperalt as legal adviser for wireless, public safety and consumer protection, Hayley Steffen as legal adviser for wireline and space, Harsha Mudaliar as policy adviser for media and tech and Anna Holland, as executive assistant.
Public Knowledge hires Stephen Bennett, ex-Institute for Palestine Studies-USA, as director-development and external affairs; Alisa Valentin, ex-National Urban League and ex-FCC, as broadband policy director; Nat Purser, former Center for Economic and Policy Research, as government affairs policy advocate; and Georgetown Law Communications and Technology Law Clinic’s Lauren Harriman as fellow … Free State Foundation announces former FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly as adjunct senior fellow, launching video podcast, TMT With Mike O’Rielly.
Former FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Director Jessica Rich, ex-Kelley Drye, joins Consumer Product Safety Commission as general counsel, succeeding Austin Schlick, ex-FCC general counsel, who elevates to executive director … Bureau of Industry and Security hires Microsoft’s Elizabeth Cannon as first executive director-Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services … Qualcomm promotes Chief Financial Officer Akash Palkhiwala to expanded role of CFO and chief operating officer ... LG Ad Solutions, connected TV and cross-screen advertising platform, names GumGum’s Angela Barnett head-corporate communications.
Newly promoted at Indie Semiconductor: Peter Gulden to executive vice president-radar systems and software; Abhay Rai to chief product officer; and Michael Wittmann to chief operating officer ... Resilio, file synchronization solutions company for content creation workflows, hires Signiant’s Thomas Bush as vice president-strategic accounts, media and entertainment ... ViewLift, digital content distribution platform for sports and entertainment streaming, adds John Rose, Boston Consulting Group managing director and senior partner, and also former EMI Group, and Steve Byrd, former Sportradar head-global strategic partnerships, to its board.
Montana Public Service Commission announces David Sanders, ex-U.S. Department of Transportation, as executive director … Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) appoints Thomas Gleeson, Public Utility Commission executive director, as a commissioner for a term expiring Sept. 1, 2029, and designates him PUC chair … E.W. Scripps Chief Legal Officer Bill Appleton retiring at end of 2024, with Deputy General Counsel Dave Giles to replace him.
Wiley names partners Megan Brown and Duane Pozza as co-chairs-privacy, cyber and data governance practice … Idaho Public Utilities Commission moves Technical Records Specialist Monica Barrios-Sanchez to secretary … CW Network hires Great American Media’s Erin McIlvain, also former Dish Network, as senior vice president-affiliate distribution and marketing ... Resecurity, cybersecurity solutions provider, names IBM’s Chris Mancuso vice president-global channels and alliances.
Satellite Industry Association elects Julie Zoller of Amazon as chair, Danielle Pineres of Planet Labs PBC as vice chair and Peter Davidson of Intelsat as treasurer ... Maryland Public Service Commission appoints Christina Ochoa, former state assistant attorney general, as director-legislative affairs and assistant general counsel … Motion Picture Association renews Chairman-CEO Charles Rivkin’s contract for a third three-year term.
Computer & Communications Industry Association hires Brian McMillan, former chief counsel and legislative director to Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., as vice president-federal affairs ... National Center for the Advancement of Semiconductor Technology, which is expected to operate Chips for America National Semiconductor Technology Center once established, hires Deirdre Hanford, from Synoposis, as organization’s first CEO … George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center names Roger Nober, ex-BNSF Railway, as director.
Utah Public Service Chair Thad LeVar retires … Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) announces retirement of Chief Information Officer Ed Toner, effective Feb. 16, with IT Administrator Mark Neemann to become interim CIO during search … Under succession plan, Info-Tech Research Group promotes Chief Product Officer Tom Zehren to CEO, effective Feb. 2, when current CEO David Godfrey moves to chief growth officer, newly created role.