FTC acting Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter picks Austin King for associate general counsel-rulemaking; Gaurav Laroia, joining agency from Free Press, succeeds King as Slaughter attorney-adviser for consumer protection ... Harris Wiltshire partners elect John Nakahata as chair of the firm for three years, taking over from co-founder Scott Blake Harris; both remain partner ... At Hogan Lovells, Gerry Oberst, ex-5G Everywhere in America, rejoins as senior counsel, Communication, Internet and Media practice ... Media lawyer Lynn Oberlander, ex-Gizmodo Media Group and ex-First Look Media Works, joins Ballard Spahr as of counsel, working on areas including content prerelease review; Freedom of Information Act issues; copyright; and contract negotiation.
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Business Roundtable hires Paul Jackson, ex-FCC, as vice president-government relations, he says ... Jamie Barnett, also ex-FCC and ex-Venable, says he's hired by Viasat as vice president-global communications solutions ... SolarWinds promotes Rohini Kasturi to executive vice president-chief product officer, Tim Brown to chief information security officer and Andrea Webb to senior vice president-chief customer officer ... Mitre hires Wen Masters from Georgia Tech Research Institute as vice president-cyber technologies.
Optiv Security hires Heather Allen Strbiak, ex-T-Mobile, as chief human resources officer; Heather Rim from Aecom as chief marketing officer; and Ahmed Shah, ex-Ivanti, as senior vice president-alliances and ecosystems ... Korn Ferry adds Steven Shelgren, ex-Microsoft before working at another consulting firm, as senior client partner, Global Microsoft Ecosystem in the firm’s Technology and Digital practices ... Olea Edge Analytics taps former Google Energy Chief Technology Officer Ben Wilson as chief operating officer ... Thunderbird Entertainment promotes Sarah Nathanson to COO-corporate-secretary.
CloudBees advances Shawn Ahmed to chief marketing officer ... GuardDog.ai taps Microsoft’s Rich Wickham as senior vice president-ecosystems ... Ampersand taps Axa’s Patty Keenan, also ex-IBM, as chief people officer ... TVU Networks taps David Cohen, ex-Grass Valley, as global vice president-strategic marketing ... On24 hires SAP’s Steve Sims as vice president-product and Shalini Mitha vice president-product marketing ... Telecom retail management software provider iQmetrix adds NUU Mobile’s Andre Tagliamonte, also former Samsung, as vice president-business development.