Instacart hires J.D. Harrison from U.S. Chamber of Commerce as policy communications director ... Rejoining the company, Adrienne Roark becomes president, CBS Stations; it's a "newly defined role" dealing with general managers at ViacomCBS' CBS Television Network stations primarily in markets in the "eastern half" of the U.S.; she was general manager, KPTV Portland, Oregon, and KPDX Vancouver, Washington; Also effective Aug. 2, Meredith promotes Corey Hanson to vice president-general manager of those two TV stations, succeeding Roark, who leaves effective July 31.
FCC acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel also announces (see this section, July 14 issue of this publication) that Mark Bykowsky, industry economist, Office of Economics and Analytics, is retiring ... At Disney, General Counsel Alan Braverman and Chief Communications Officer Zenia Mucha decide to retire from the company after their contracts expire at year's end ... Uber hires for federal affairs team Ryan Thornton from Information Technology Industry Council as the company's senior associate-external affairs.
Comcast names Broderick Johnson from Covington & Burling as executive vice president-public policy and executive vice president-digital equity, succeeding retiring Rebecca Arbogast in leading the public policy team ... Dish Network promotes Alison Minea and Jessica Straus to vice presidents in Washington office; Minea is also associate general counsel-regulatory affairs and Straus is VP of government affairs ... NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association hires Todd Washam, ex-EPA, as director-government relations and Wireless Industry Network, a new Washington-based staff post.
Hogan Lovells new partner is Tim Bergreen, ex-House Intelligence Committee aide, joining Global Regulatory group as member, Government Relations and Public Affairs practice, focusing on telecom and satellites ... Kinetic adds Deana Perry, former executive director-rural broadband program at Georgia Department of Community Affairs, as the telco's vice president-state government affairs for Georgia, replacing Michael Foor, recently promoted to president-state operations (see this section, June 11 issue).
CTA's Jamie Susskind leaving association and "returning to the Senate to work on the tech issues," she says ... Center for Democracy & Technology appoints from New America Sharon Bradford Franklin, also former Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board executive director, to newly created post of co-director, CDT's Security & Surveillance Project; Greg Nojeim is the project's other co-director ... ATSC hires Amy Lodes from 5Star Bank as director-communications, newly created role.
Quantcast adds Min-Jae Lee, ex-The Trade Desk lead privacy counsel, as its chief privacy officer ... Mutualink hires Chrissie Coon, ex-FirstNet, as the public safety technology interoperability provider’s first chief customer experience officer ... Fox Corp. adds Brian Nick from Coca-Cola Consolidated as executive vice president-chief communications officer, effective July 31.
CTIA veteran Hank Kilgore becomes senior adviser to Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa. ... Wilkinson Barker hires ex-Colorado state Rep. KC Becker (D) as partner; as an elected official, she worked on broadband and other tech issues ... Sheppard Mullin hires Wynter Deagle, ex-Troutman Pepper, as partner, Intellectual Property practice group and member, Privacy and Cybersecurity team ... Davis Polk elections to partner include Matthew Bacal, a member of the IP and Tech Transactions and the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity practices.
President Joe Biden to nominate House Commerce Committee Chief Counsel-Communications and Consumer Protection Alexander Hoehn-Saric for chair, Consumer Product Safety Commission ... Ballard Spahr hires litigator Tracy Rane, ex-Kasowitz Benson, as of counsel; she works on copyright and trademark infringement, right of privacy, and other matters and has media and entertainment clients ... At ViacomCBS, Johnny Green advances to president-general manager, CBS News and Television Stations’ local businesses in the New York market, including WCBS-TV New York, WLNY-TV Riverhead, CBSN New York and CBSNewYork.com.
House Commerce Committee promotes Deputy Staff Director Tiffany Guarascio to staff director, replacing Jeff Carroll, leaving Capitol Hill; General Counsel Waverly Gordon adds title of deputy staff director ... North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) reappoints Charlotte Mitchell as Public Utilities Commission chair.
Kelley Drye promotes to partner New York litigator Levi Downing, focusing on trademark, trade dress, copyright, false advertising, unfair competition ... In ViacomCBS leadership simplification, Chris McCarthy promoted to president-CEO, MTV Entertainment Group, and Brian Robbins to president-CEO, Nickelodeon; George Cheeks, CBS president-CEO, adds responsibility for a global content strategy across ViacomCBS’ FTA networks around the world; Dan Cohen, president-ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group, adds distribution of ViacomCBS International Studios content.