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.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) appoints Public Service Commission member Summer Strand to succeed Rebecca Cameron Valcq as chairperson; Valcq is leaving the Evers administration, effective Feb. 2 ... Cisco hires Evan Viau, ex-House Commerce Committee, as senior manager-government affairs … Hotwire, global communications and marketing consultancy, promotes Ute Hildebrandt to CEO-continental Europe and Martin Opercan to managing director-Germany ... BCN Telecom promotes Ryan Kelly to executive vice president-sales ... News Corp announces Disney’s Arthur Bochner as its next executive vice president-chief communications officer to replace Jim Kennedy when he retires later this year.
American Enterprise Institute announces hires for newly created Center for Technology, Science, and Energy: Will Rinehart, from the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, as a senior fellow and Roger Pielke, University of Colorado Boulder professor, as a nonresident senior fellow … Local government/telecom/utility practice at Kissinger & Fellman joins with Wilson Williams to become Wilson Williams Fellman Dittman, with Kissinger & Fellman’s partners Ken Fellman and Brandon Dittman and associates Wilson Scarbeary and Bobby Riley at the combined firm: Fellman and Dittman as partners, Scarbeary an associate and Riley senior counsel.
CTIA promotes Sarah Yi to assistant vice president-executive director, ACTwireless; Justin Perkins to director-cybersecurity and policy; and Courtney Tolerico to director-regulatory affairs … Ritter Communications advances Heath Simpson to CEO, effective Jan. 31, succeeding Alan Morse, moving to executive chairman ... Sinclair advances Ryan Moore to senior vice president-chief revenue officer.