Communications Personals
Rose Bowl Stadium and Rose Bowl Legacy launch Rose Bowl Institute to "champion sportsmanship and leverage the power of sports to unite people," with ex-Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program Executive Director Charlie Firestone the new think tank's president ... FirstNet adds Brandon Allen from International Association of Fire Chiefs as telecom policy analyst ... North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) selects Thomas Parrish as acting secretary, Department of Information Technology, where he's deputy chief information officer; Parrish succeeds Tracy Doaks (see June 19 issue, this section).
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Associations and companies in global advertising industry form Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media, led by Association of National Advertisers’ Bill Tucker as executive director, and he remains ANA group executive vice president, leading Data, Technology and Measurement practices; Interactive Advertising Bureau Tech Lab President Dennis Buchheim oversees partnership’s technical standards efforts; and Venable Chairman Stu Ingis runs legal and policy working group.
Fuze appoints John Milton, ex-Markforged, general counsel, and adds as board members David Baum, ex-Goldman Sachs, and Jay Markley, ex-chairman of Broadsoft before Cisco bought it ... Cass Information Systems hires Matt Schuckman, ex-Armstrong Teasdale with clients including the company, to newly created job of general counsel-corporate secretary ... Chegg taps Pac-12 Conference's Woodie Dixon as general counsel, effective Sept. 8.
WWE names Nick Khan, ex-Creative Artists Agency, president-chief revenue officer ... ViacomCBS Entertainment & Youth Group adds from Marvel Studios Grant Gish to lead its new Adult Animation unit as senior vice president-adult animation, entertainment and youth brands ... Apple promotes Phil Schiller to Apple fellow, continuing to lead App Store and Apple Events; the company's Joz Joswiak joins executive team as senior vice president-worldwide marketing ... Office Depot parent ODP hires Anthony Scaglione from ABM Industries as executive vice president-chief financial officer and adds Terry Leeper, ex-Amazon Business, as chief technology officer.
Changes at CommScope Corporate Communications: Rick Aspan, who was vice president, retired, spokesperson says; Jeanne Russo left the company for Qurate retail, where she says she's director-financial communications; that company doesn't comment ... Hearst Television promotes Laura Williamson to president-general manager, KSBW Salinas, California, and Estrella Costa Central subchannels serving the Monterey-Salinas market, effective Sept. 8, succeeding Joseph Heston, retiring ... Transaction Network Services advances John Tait to newly created position of global managing director, FinTech Payments business ... Life360 taps Jonathan Benassaya, ex-Deezer, for chief product officer.
Obituary: Jeff White, a technology executive, died suddenly. He was 48. CommScope said White prepared sales and marketing teams "for success during an extremely challenging period” and joined the cable and telecom gearmaker in May. His previous job was as Here Technologies senior vice president and chief customer officer. Earlier, he had leadership roles at Syniverse, Extreme Networks and Cisco. CommScope declined to provide more details.