Latham & Watkins annual promotions to counsel (unless otherwise specified) and effective Jan. 1, and all dealing with tech issues, include, in Litigation & Trial Department, Dale Chang for Intellectual Property Litigation Practice; Joseph Hansen with Connectivity, Privacy & Information Practice; and Amit Makker, IP Litigation Practice; and Morgan Brubaker as member, Data & Technology Transactions Practice in the Corporate Department, which also has Darren Guttenberg as a member in Mergers & Acquisitions Practice.

Dish Network promotes Peter Lewis to director-government affairs ... Jordan Haas, ex-Internet Association, says he joined Intel’s U.S. government affairs team as director-trade policy ... Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum appoints Gill Whitehead, ex-Google’s U.K. Management Group, as CEO of DRCF, which the country's Competition and Markets Authority, Information Commissioner’s Office and Ofcom announced in 2020 to "help ensure online services work well for consumers and businesses."

Partnership on AI board promotes Rebecca Finlay to CEO; she remains on PAI's board, which she joined in early 2020, and was named acting executive director this past February and most recently was Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's vice president-engagement and public policy ... Access Partnership appoints Leslie Martinkovics, ex-Verizon, as director-space and satellite spectrum ... U.S. Chamber of Commerce hires "mass market content creation" expert Peter Lauria as vice president-editor, USChamber.com, and Kevin Gaherty, ex-Harte Hanks, as executive director-data and email products.

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Mapleton Investments Chairman Marc Nathanson as ambassador to Norway; Nathanson founded Falcon Cable TV in 1975 and in 1999 he became Charter Communications vice chairman ... ViacomCBS moves Laurie Orlando to oversee talent strategy for CBS Stations and local streaming unit and Alison Pepper to senior vice president-talent strategy, CBS News and Network streaming ... Baidu names Tal Education Group’s Rong Luo, also former Lenovo and Microsoft, as chief financial officer .. Skorpios taps Christopher Boling from Xymogen as CFO.

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel appoints Bridget Alexander White from JSI and USConnect’s representative to North American Numbering Council (see this section, Oct. 13 issue of this publication), as NANC vice chair during 2021-23 charter, and Rosenworcel names more members to the body's Numbering Administration Oversight working group: Thomson Obasuyi, Comcast; Sarah Halko, Telnyx; and Rebecca Murphy Thompson, Twilio.