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.
Aerospace Industries Association promotes Steve Jordan Tomaszewski to vice president-space systems; names Amber McIntyre, formerly National Space Policy Council, as senior director-civil space, replacing Jordan Tomaszewski … BGR names Peter Lewis, formerly DISH, as vice president-commerce and infrastructure ... Montana Public Service Commission names Alana Lake, ex-Department of Energy, executive director, replacing David Sanders … Convergence Strategies taps Jennie Chandra, formerly Conduent, as partner.
Gray Media promotes Ellenann Yelverton to general counsel … CTIA names Tom Hebert, ex-Americans for Tax Reform, director-government affairs, replacing Sydney Pettit … Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., promotes Katie Lane to chief of staff … Michael Reeder, ex-Cadwell Clonts, joins Blank Rome as a partner-intellectual property litigation group and member-technology industry team …
Named to Global Satellite Operators Association board: Mike Greenley, MDA Space; Per Noren, Ovzon; Omar Qaise, OQ Technology; Tugay Guzel, Plan S … Sidley appoints Michael Hochman, ex-White House Office of the National Cyber Director, partner in its privacy and cybersecurity practice.
Mike O'Rielly, former FCC commissioner, joins Information Technology and Innovation Foundation board ... Keith Woods retiring as NPR's chief diversity officer, effective May 2 … California Senate confirms Matthew Baker's reappointment to California Public Utilities Commission.
Michael Powell to retire this year as NCTA president and CEO ... FCC promotes Zenji Nakazawa to acting chief, Public Safety Bureau, replacing Deb Jordan, retiring ... Comcast names Hensey Fenton, ex-Covington & Burling, deputy general counsel-privacy and digital governance … Changes at NASA: Vanessa Wyche promoted to acting associate administrator, replacing Jim Free, retired; Stephen Koerner advanced to acting director-Johnson Space Center, replacing Wyche; Jackie Jester, ex-Relativity Space, appointed associate administrator-office of legislative and intergovernmental affairs.
Terran Orbital appoints Richard Ullman, formerly Boeing, as senior vice president-finance and business operations, replacing Tom Klinger, returning to Lockheed … Alexandrine De Bianchi, ex-White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, joins Wiley as a public policy adviser-telecom, media and technology practice … Changes at Boycom Cablevision: Reid Morgan promoted to COO, replacing Shelly Batton, retiring; Brian Simpson, formerly Cable One, named vice president-operations and engineering, replacing Steve Bell, retiring, remaining as a consultant; James Russell, also ex-Cable One, tapped as technical operations manager, a new post ... Illinois State Senate confirmed Doug Scott as chairman, Illinois Commerce Commission.