Gibson Dunn partnership elects Barbara Becker as chair and managing partner, effective May 1 and succeeding Ken Doran, who remains a partner; Becker will leave post of co-chair, Mergers and Acquisitions Practice and has represented News Corp., VMware and others ... Precision hires David Plouffe, ex-Uber and who helped start Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, as of counsel ... Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology appoints Antonio Martinez, ex-U.S. State Department, as executive director, Colorado Broadband Office.
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Consolidated Communications adds Erik Garr, ex-Policygenius and earlier the general manager of FCC National Broadband Plan, as executive vice president and president-consumer and small business channels; and telco moves Michael Smith, who was chief revenue officer, to lead commercial and carrier business unit as president ... TDS' Joseph Hanley to lead Corporate Development Group, in addition to his current role running Strategy and Technology Group, effective when Scott Williamson retires, expected mid-2021.
MetroNet taps from Windstream Bart Daily as market leader on Lexington, Kentucky, team ... IBM names at NewCo, independent company to be created with separation planned for this year of IBM’s Managed Infrastructure Services business: Group President Elly Keinan and Chief Marketing Officer Maria Bartolome Winans ... Tech Data expands job of Sergio Farache to include global responsibility for solutions aggregation and cloud, data, IoT and security as executive vice president.
Tech venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners adds as partners Jeff Blackburn, who joins from Amazon, and newly promoted investors Mary D'Onofrio, Mike Droesch, Tess Hatch and Andrew Hedin ... SymphonyAI taps Cloudera’s Charles Zedlewski as operating partner ... E-commerce platform provider sticky.io hires Brett McLaughlin, ex-Volusion, as chief technology officer ... AI analytics company Sisense names Adam Towns from Mimecast for chief financial officer ... RingCentral hires Anil Goel from Oyo Hotels and Homes, also ex-Amazon, as vice president-engineering and India general manager.
President Joe Biden nominates CEO of Lumiata AI healthcare company Dilawar Syed as deputy administrator, Small Business Administration ... Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (see 2103020059) ... Luna Innovations nominates Pamela Coe, ex-Liberty Media, for election to the board at the May annual meeting to replace retiring director Don Pastor ... Nonprofit PepUp Tech adds James Goldfinger, Customertimes chief customer officer, to the board.
Xerox nominates Nichelle Maynard-Elliott, ex-Praxair, and Margarita Palau-Hernandez, former U.S. ambassador to the UN General Assembly, for election to the board at its May 20 annual meeting, expanding to nine members; Global Net Lease CEO James Nelson and Icahn Capital Portfolio Manager Steven Miller replace Jonathan Christodoro and Nicholas Graziano, respectively, as board nominees.