Bitcoin company Cipher Mining Technologies names Tower Research Capital’s William Iwaschuk chief legal officer ... E.W. Scripps names consultant to media organizations Kate O’Brian as head-news, national television networks business, effective April 12, newly created role (see this section, March 17) ... Equifax expands role of Julia Houston as chief strategy and marketing officer to include leadership of global marketing ... Best Buy Chief Strategy Officer Whit Alexander steps down, stays in “advisory capacity” through June 1 ... Backblaze taps Mark Potter, ex-NewWave Telecom and Technologies, as chief information security officer.
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President Joe Biden nominates Sidley Austin partner Christopher Fonzone to general counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; ex-Native American Agriculture Fund CEO Janie Simms Hipp for general counsel, Agriculture Department; and Special Counsel, Office of the White House Counsel Leslie Kiernan as general counsel, Commerce Department ... Stefanie Tompkins sworn in as director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ... Akamai taps board member Dan Hesse, ex-Sprint CEO, as chairman to succeed Frederic Salerno, retiring effective June 3 ... Velodyne Lidar adds ex-National Transportation Safety Board Chair Deborah Hersman to its board, which expands to eight members.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), outgoing Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D), Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D) and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D) announce inaugural California Privacy Protection Agency board: as chair, Jennifer Urban, clinical professor of law and director-policy initiatives at University of California, Berkeley's Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic; and as members, John Thompson, LA28 senior vice president-government relations; Angela Sierra, who has been chief assistant attorney general at California DOJ's Public Rights Division; Lydia de la Torre, who is a professor at Santa Clara University Law School, where she teaches privacy law and co-directed its Privacy Certificate Program, and has been of counsel, Squire Patton, which she's leaving; and Vinhcent Le, who tells us he remains technology equity attorney, Greenlining Institute.