FTC confirms Chair Lina Khan names three officials, who have been advisers to Commissioner Rohit Chopra, to new posts: Holly Vedova as acting director, Competition Bureau; Sam Levine for acting director, Consumer Protection Bureau; and Erie Meyer is the agency’s chief technologist and policy adviser to Khan ... Covington & Burling taps Brian Nester, ex-Sidley Austin, as partner, Patent Litigation Practice; his telecom and chip clients included Intel, Microsoft, Nokia and Samsung.

Harvard Kennedy School starts Public Interest Technology Lab, led by Latanya Sweeney, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the school and ex-FTC chief technology officer ... Javier Mendoza, who has been a spokesperson for Frontier Communications, has left the telco; no word on future ... RumbleOn taps its outside counsel Michael Francis, from Akerman, joining the used vehicle e-commerce company as general counsel.

Autonomous driving platform Pony.ai hires J.P. Morgan’s Lawrence Steyn as chief financial officer ... Instabase taps Facebook’s Yee Jiun Song as senior vice president-engineering ... Online learning platform Springboard hires former IAC executive Andrew Moers as president-consumer business and Ryan Fong, ex-Yahoo, as CFO ... CloudBees names Prakash Sethuraman, ex-HSBC, chief information security officer ... Nexstar Media’s NewsNation cable network hires Fox News Vice President Cherie Grzech as vice president-news, managing editor, effective July 19.

AT&T elects ex-Ford Foundation President Luis Ubinas, also former McKinsey & Co., to its board ... Verizon elects Reckitt Benckiser Group CEO Laxman Narasimhan to its board, effective July 1 ... T-Mobile U.S. adds former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Letitia Long to its board and appoints her national security director under commitments connected to combining with Sprint ... Nutanix elects Azimuth Partners Managing Partner Virginia Gambale, who became lead independent director in December, as chair of the board, succeeding Dheeraj Pandey.

National Association of State 911 Administrators moves up to president Kelli Merriweather, Texas Commission on State Emergency Communications; Budge Currier, California Office of Emergency Services, becomes NASNA vice president; for more in this publication's issue about 911, see 2106250049 about a new FCC order ... Stepping down from Telecommunications Industry Registered Apprenticeship Program Advisory Board are David Sams, SBA Communications, and Joel Hightower, Hightower Communications; Ryan Coppola, also SBA, elected to the board … Airties Chief Technology Officer Metin Taskin joins Wireless Broadband Alliance, WBA says.