Kelley Drye hires ex-FTC officials Jessica Rich, who remains a fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy, as of counsel, and Laura Riposo VanDruff from AT&T, as partner; they join the law firm’s Privacy and Advertising practice groups ... OneWeb adds Chris Moore, ex-U.K. official, as vice president-international government and trade engagement, Government and Regulatory Affairs Team ... Covington taps ex-Senate Judiciary Committee General Counsel Nick Xenakis for the law firm's Public Policy practice as special counsel ... TechNet promotes Meghan Pearce to manager-federal policy.
President Joe Biden to nominate Willie Phillips, chairman of the District of Columbia Public Service Commission, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; he remains PSC chairman until he's confirmed at FERC, per a spokesperson for the DC agency ... Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) reappoints Arthur Graham and Andrew Fay to Public Service Commission; the governor's office says "each reappointment is for a four-year term and is subject to confirmation by the Florida Senate."
Software and Information Industry Association hires Paul Lekas, ex-National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, as SIIA senior vice president-global public policy, and Renee Harris-Etheridge, ex-National Association for Home Care & Hospice, as vice president-marketing and membership ... Perkins Coie adds Belinda Nixon from FCC, where she was Wireless Bureau’s Competition and Infrastructure Policy Division deputy chief, to the law firm as partner, Technology Transactions & Privacy Law Practice and Communications Industry Group ... Fox promotes Elizabeth Casey to deputy general counsel, Fox Corp. and general counsel, Fox Sports; Claudia Teran steps down as Fox corporate general counsel and Fox Sports general counsel; Fox Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer Nicholas Trutanich now also executive vice president-litigation.
SoftBank Group International CEO Marcelo Claure, ex-Sprint, nominated for election to Deutsche Telekom board under SoftBank-DT strategic partnership and equity share swap agreement (see 2109070038) ... Network Advertising Initiative hires Farah Zaman, ex-Meredith, as vice president-general counsel ... Secureworks promotes Wendy Thomas to CEO, succeeding retiring Michael Cote, who also leaves the board ... Online consumer reviews platform Trustpilot adds Alicia Skubick from Intuit QuickBooks as chief marketing officer, effective Oct. 4 ... Intelligent software systems provider Wind River hires Microsoft’s Avijit Sinha as chief product officer ... Cybersecurity company Vehere adds ex-Forescout Chief Revenue Officer Steve Redman, also former McAfee, as an adviser to its board ... National CineMedia announces return of Maria Woods from JumpCloud as executive vice president-general counsel.
NRTC taps Tom Whitaker, ex-Shentel, for new post: vice president-member operations ... Granite Telecommunications promotes Sana Sheikh to vice president-transformation, deputy general counsel and vice president-strategic affairs ... Circle City Broadcasting Owner-CEO-President DuJuan McCoy and data scientist Roosevelt Smith start eMedia Augmentation; McCoy is the new firm's CEO and Smith the chief technology officer.
O’Melveny hires trial lawyer Timothy Durst, ex-Baker Botts, as partner, and his clients have been in technology, telecom and other industries ... Panasonic North America Chief Human Resources Officer Megan Myungwon Lee promoted to chairwoman-CEO, effective Oct. 1, to succeed departing Michael Moskowitz ... Connected TV adtech platform MNTN hires Joanne Bradford from PayPal-affiliated Honey as chief growth officer ... Office of U.S. Trade Representative moves Dawn Shackleford to assistant USTR for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, replacing Karl Ehlers, who retired in May.
Aerospace Corp. hires Audrey Allison, former Boeing vice president-global spectrum management; she joins Center for Space Policy and Strategy as senior project leader ... Cable Center CEO-President Jana Nelson Henthorn retiring, effective year-end and remaining on the board as immediate past president ... Vivint Smart Home announces DLA Piper’s Daniel Garen as chief ethics and compliance officer.
NAB hires from Copyright Office Anna Chauvet as vice president-public policy ... Internet Association's new vice president-legal and policy affairs and associate general counsel is Matt Gerst, from CTIA, reporting to Jeanine Poltronieri, IA's new (see this section, Aug. 24) general counsel and senior vice president-legal and policy affairs.
Delaware Secretary of State Jeffrey Bullock appoints Matthew Hartigan as executive director, Public Service Commission, where he was deputy director ... Instacart hires from Amazon Troy Clair, who joins Public Policy and Government Affairs team as director-public engagement ... SoftBank Group International taps Eduardo Vieira, who was founding partner of Idea, as SBGI's head-communications for Latin America, reporting to executives including SBGI CEO Marcelo Claure, who's also SoftBank Group corporate officer, executive vice president, and chief operating officer and is ex-Sprint.
Longtime NTIA Deputy Chief of Staff and Director-Congressional Affairs Jim Wasilewski retires, replaced on interim basis by Deputy Director-Congressional Affairs and Telecom Policy Jason Goldman ... Kate Rouch says she's leaving Facebook to become Coinbase's first chief marketing officer ... CBS News and Stations promotes Tim Wieland to vice president-general manager, CBS News and Television Stations’ local businesses in Denver, including KCNC-TV, CBSN Denver and CBSDenver.com.