In office of FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington and effective Oct. 11, Marco Peraza, ex-law clerk to 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael Brennan, joins as wireline adviser, replacing Carolyn Roddy, departing for International Bureau; wireless adviser Erin Boone adds title of chief of staff, a role Roddy has held; she tells us that at IB, she becomes special adviser/special counsel ... California Privacy Protection Agency picks Ashkan Soltani as executive director; he's distinguished fellow, Georgetown University Law School's Institute for Technology Law and Policy and the Center on Privacy and Technology.
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MPA hires Michelle De Mooy as senior director-policy for the magazine association; she had a policy consulting firm and is ex-Center for Democracy & Technology; De Mooy replaces Emily Emery ... Access Partnership appoints CEO Michael Gallagher of the Intrepidity consulting firm as senior adviser-global interactive entertainment; he's ex-CEO of the Entertainment Software Association ... Seaborn Networks moves Lin Gentemann to general counsel and Sean McNeill to chief financial officer ... Commerce Department names Eric Morrissette from office of Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., as the department's head-legislative affairs.
Public Media Venture Group adds Skip Pizzi, ex-NAB, as senior consultant, working on ATSC 3.0; he runs a NextGenTV Working Group of PMVG stations and remains vice chair, ATSC Technology Group 3, which supervises 3.0 standards-setting developments ... Nvidia names Meagan McCanna, ex-Airbnb, as director-government affairs, succeeding Austin Carson ... Open internet nonprofit Public Interest Registry hires Verisign's Rick Wilhelm as chief technology officer.
Frontier Communications taps Humana’s Charlon McIntosh, also ex-Charter Communications, as chief customer operations officer ... Toluna, parent of Harris Interactive, hires Ipsos’ Cate Rubenstein, also former 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures Entertainment, as senior vice president-global marketing ... NPR Chair LaFontaine Oliver says he accepts resignation of Carlos Watson from the board; Watson is CEO and co-founder of Ozy Media, which had said it was closing amid allegations of potential investor fraud and now may stay open (company isn't commenting now).