FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr adds Danielle Thumann from Wilkinson Barker to his office as legal adviser and promotes Ben Arden to chief of staff ... Acting FTC Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter appoints Lindsay Kryzak, ex-Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, to director, Office of Public Affairs ... NPR CEO John Lansing hires Marta McLellan Ross, who was Defense Logistics Agency director-legislative affairs, to lead the public radio programmer's Policy and Representation team ... Morrison & Foerster hires ex-DOJ Antitrust Division official Alexander Okuliar as partner, Antitrust Practice Group and co-chair, Global Antitrust Practice Group; at Justice, he worked on technology, digital platform, media, entertainment and communications issues.
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Steptoe & Johnson hires Mike Eisenberg from Holland & Knight as partner, Intellectual Property group; he focuses on patent litigation involving semiconductor devices, computer software and telecom ... Chartwell Strategy Group hires include Keith Cocozza, formerly of AT&T's WarnerMedia, as senior adviser ... Nielsen promotes Sandra Sims-Williams to chief diversity officer, taking over that role from CEO David Kenny ... Reddit hires Laura Nestler from Duolingo as vice president-community.
Chip foundry SkyWater taps On Semiconductor’s John Spicer as executive vice president-operations ... Avaya hires Kathleen Sullivan from Verizon as vice president-commercial segment, newly created role ... Hybrid cloud services provider ORock Technologies promotes Joshua Cornutt to chief technology officer ... Data privacy company WireWheel hires Metalogix Software’s Trevor Hellebuyck as CTO ... Cryptocurrency company Brane Capital hires Warner Music Canada’s Charlie Millar, also ex-BlackBerry, as chief revenue officer ... Bold Commerce taps Odus Wittenburg from Rackspace as chief operating officer, a role previously filled by CEO Yvan Boisjoli ... Broadvoice adds Lauri Martinez, ex-PGi, as vice president-channel marketing.
Qualcomm says Wanshi Chen, Qualcomm Technologies senior director-technology, elected by 3rd Generation Partnership Project members as chairman, 3GPP Radio Access Network Plenary, succeeding Nokia’s Balazs Bertenyi; representative of the group says some other election results are pending; they will be included in a future issue of this publication ... Seagate appoints Verizon Chief Information Officer Shankar Arumugavelu to its board ... Net Health names ECi Software Solutions President-COO Sarah Hagan to its board.