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Open Markets Institute hires include LaRonda Peterson, ex-Rand, as managing editor and Brian Callaci, ex-Data & Society, as chief economist ... Senate confirms Isabella Casillas Guzman 81-17 for administrator, Small Business Administration ... Nominations sent to Senate for the following to be general counsels: Christopher Fonzone at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as Jason Klitenic had resigned; Janie Simms Hipp, Department of Agriculture, a job that Stephen Vaden did before becoming Court of International Trade judge; and Leslie Kiernan, Department of Commerce, filling spot previously held by Peter Davidson.

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Nokia names Occidental Vice President-Corporate Affairs Melissa Schoeb chief corporate affairs officer and member of the group leadership team ... VMware hires Paula Hodgins from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Canada as senior vice president-worldwide accounts and telco sales ... Capco tech and management consultancy adds Protiviti’s Jeremy Stierwalt as a partner, U.S. data practice ... Venture capital fund Section 32 hires Alphabet’s Andy Harrison as managing partner and Sue Hager from EQRx as chief investor relations and communications officer.

IHeartMedia moves Market President-Jacksonville Nicky Sparrow to senior vice president-multicultural sales, Markets Group ... Great Plains Communications appoints Matt Porterfield vice president-corporate development; he was founder-president of InterCarrier Networks, which became a Great Plains subsidiary in 2019 ... Automox cloud endpoint manager appoints Jeff St. Clair from Palo Alto Networks as chief revenue officer ... TA Associates taps Boston Consulting Group’s Andrew Lowry as vice president and member, Strategic Resource Group.

National Regulatory Research Institute, NARUC's research entity, elects Indiana Utility Regulatory Commissioner David Ober as chair, replacing Rhode Island Public Utilities Commissioner Marion Gold, retiring; and Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission Chairman David Danner as vice chair, a job Ober had done ... Center for a New American Security elects WestExec Advisors co-founder and Managing Partner Michele Flournoy, who also helped start CNAS, as board chair and Lupa Systems founder James Murdoch, ex-21st Century Fox CEO, as vice chair; for a Notebook in this issue on a CNAS panel that includes Flournoy, see 2103170045 ... Application security testing provider GrammaTech adds to its board FireEye Senior Vice President Mike Armistead and Jim Routh, ex-MassMutual and newly hired as Virsec chief security adviser ... GRC, supplier of immersion cooling systems for data centers, appoints Thierry Pellegrino, former Dell EMC vice president-workloads and solutions, to its board.