FCC Chairman Brendan Carr names Adam Candeub, ex-Michigan State Law School, general counsel ... Julie Kearney steps down as chief, FCC Space Bureau; Kerry Murray becomes acting chief … Sinclair promotes Linda Greenwald and Matthew Diehlmann to directors of programming, replacing Dave Howitt, retiring March 31.
FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington promotes Adam Cassady from legal adviser to chief of staff ... NARUC President Tricia Pridemore taps for board Katie Anderson, Arkansas Public Service Commission, succeeding Lillian Mateo-Santos, Puerto Rico Energy Bureau; for subcommittee-education and research, Erik Helland, Iowa Utilities Commission, and Doyle Webb, Arkansas PSC, replacing Pridemore and succeeding John Betkoski, Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority; for Gas-Electric Alignment for Reliability (GEAR) Task Force, Josh Byrnes, Iowa Utilities Commission.
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez staff changes: Hayley Steffen joins Office of International Affairs; Jessica Greffenius returns to the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau; Jonathan Uriarte joins as strategic communications and policy adviser from former Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel’s staff ... Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) appoints Brian Rybarik, ex-Microsoft, chair of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission for six-year term starting March 3; he replaces David Danner, retiring … Commercial Space Foundation names Alicia Brown, ex-NASA, executive director … Privacy professionals group IAPP elects to board through 2025: Oliver Draf, Volkswagen; Kristie Chon Flynn, Google; Lara Liss, GE HealthCare; Susan Hintze, Hintze Law and Hintze Data Advisors; elected to the executive committee are: Caroline Louveaux, Mastercard (chair); Barbara Cosgrove, Workday (vice chair); Christina Montgomery, IBM (treasurer), Travis LeBlanc, Cooley (secretary); and Faith Myers, McKesson (past chair).
Incompas elects to board through 2026: For small companies, Gary Watts, Fuse.Cloud; Tom Spackman, Gigabit Fiber; Daniel Friesen, IdeaTek Telecom; Brian Worthen, Mammoth Networks; Elise Brentnall, South Valley Internet; for medium companies, Chris Champion, C Spire; Jill Sandford, FirstLight Fiber; Jon Clopton, Sinch; Ronald Mudry, Uniti Group; for large companies: Jeff Blum, EchoStar; Michael Galvin, Granite Telecommunications; Paula Boyd, Microsoft … MPA hires Josh Rubin, ex-National Security Council, as senior vice president-global strategy and chief of staff, effective Feb. 28, assuming some duties of Urmila Venugopalan, who's advanced to president and managing director-Asia Pacific region ... Associated Press promotes Michael Giarrusso to vice president-news strategy, new post.
2025 Cable Hall of Fame honorees: Ed Breen, General Instrument (retired); Joe Cohen, The Switch Sports Group, West Ridge Associates; Zenita Henderson, Point Broadband; Pat Kehoe, PK Network; Andrew Sorkin, CNBC; Bill Stemper, Comcast … Cybersecurity firm Nile adds Hemant Chaskar, formerly Exabeam, as chief information security officer … Macquarie Capital appoints David Farkas, ex-GE Aerospace, managing director … Data center services and managed cloud hosting firm Summit taps Andre Wu, former Accscient, as CEO.
T-Mobile US appoints board member Srinivasan Gopalan COO, new post, effective March 1 … The National Association of Broadcasters appoints to its radio board: Henry Hinton, Inner Banks Media; Ignacio Meyer, Univision; and Shoshana Shapiro, Cumulus Media; filling vacancies ... Southwire creates three new posts, promoting Juan Hernandez to executive vice president-residential and commercial group; adding Rohan Kelkar, ex-Schneider Electric, as executive vice president-utility and industrial group; and expanding role of Veronica Braker as executive vice president-operations … National OnDemand taps Janet Sanford, formerly USIC, as vice president-national strategic partnerships, new post … Telephone and Data Systems names Walter Carlson president and CEO, succeeding LeRoy Carlson, who becomes vice chair, new post …
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appoints: Tom Sullivan as acting chief, Office of International Affairs, replacing Troy Tanner; Catherine Matraves as acting chief, Office of Economics and Analytics; Katie Gorscak as acting director, Office of Media Relations, replacing Paloma Perez Christie … Salt Point Strategies names Anderson Helton, ex-staffer for Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Milla Anderson, ex-FCC, as vice presidents … FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks moves Wireline Bureau's Kiara Ortiz to acting legal adviser, replacing Anderson.
Adastra names Cosmin Tudor, former R Systems, as sales country lead-Romania … Communications tech provider BCN promotes Michael Ginsburg to senior vice president-sales, hires Dan Solomon, ex-Net2Phone, as vice president-sales, Western region … Wireless Support adds Perry Solomon, Solomon Growth Advisors, to advisory board … Industry Data Exchange Association names Patrick Knight, ex-Rexel, president, effective Jan. 6 … Stelia appoints David Hughes, ex-Genesis Cloud, as vice president-engineering.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr promotes Jacob Lewis to acting general counsel, replacing Michelle Ellison; Patrick Webre to acting chief, Enforcement Bureau, replacing Peter Hyun; Eduard Bartholme to acting chief, Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, replacing Alejandro Roark; Erin Boone to acting chief, Media Bureau, replacing Holly Saurer. Carr moves Joel Taubenblatt to acting chief, Wireless Bureau; Trent Harkrader to acting chief, Wireline Bureau; Debra Jordan to acting chief, Public Safety Bureau.
New FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to keep Greg Watson as his chief of staff; he names Scott Delacourt, ex-Wiley, chief of staff of the commission; Adam Chan, ex-Boyden Gray, national security senior counsel; Anthony Patrone, ex-NTIA, legal adviser; Matt Mittelstaedt, ex-office of then-Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, director-office of legislative affairs; Arpan Sura, former senior counsel-Wireless Bureau, senior counsel-spectrum and technology; Danielle Thumann, Carr's legal adviser, becomes senior counsel-wireline, public safety and consumer protection; Erin Boone, former chief of staff and wireless adviser to FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, becomes Carr's senior counsel-media and enforcement; Wireline Bureau's Callie Coker, moves to legal adviser-chairman's office; Drema Johnson continues as Carr's confidential assistant; Stephanie Chambless, ex-House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump, named special counsel-Office of the General Counsel ... GeoLinks names David Gray, ex-Splice, channel sales leader … Broadband telecommunications services company Boston Omaha adds David Graff, ex-Hudl, to board.