Mike O’Rielly, ex-FCC, joins APCO Worldwide as member, International Advisory Council ... Glen Echo Group adds Brad Williamson, ex-Pinkston, as senior director and Danielle Leopold, from Subject Matter, as senior associate; promotes Kylie Fronczak to associate ... Mehlman Castagnetti government affairs firm adds principals including Victoria Flood, ex-aide to Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.; Flood has worked on broadband, data security, spectrum and oversight of FCC, FTC and NTIA.
Grubhub hires Ashley De Smeth from Uber's Postmates as director-federal affairs and Becca Martin from Cargill as senior director-government affairs, leading state and local government relations ... Ex-DGN Enterprises founder Frank Gerratana from Fish & Richardson joins Mintz Intellectual Property Practice as member and has worked on issues including cryptocurrency and blockchain, social media and internet applications, and autonomous vehicles ... Ex-Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist , who worked on AI and cybersecurity, joins Covington’s Aerospace, Defense and National Security industry group as senior adviser.
At Wilkinson Barker, Debrea Terwilliger from Public Utilities Commission of Nevada rejoins the law firm as partner ... GPS Impact hires Sally Aman, ex-USTelecom, as chief communications officer, and Teresa Chaurand, "working to advance representation of Latinos" in the Biden administration, as the public affairs firm's principal and senior adviser.
Twitter hires Morgan Butler, ex-digital director for House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., as engagement and outreach manager-public policy ... Progressive Policy Institute hires Jack Karsten from Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation as managing director, PPI Innovation Frontier Project ... Commons Project Foundation names Minerva Tantoco, ex-New York City chief technology officer who then co-founded Grasshopper Bank, as chief operating officer of the trust that runs "digital platforms and services for the common good."
Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force leaders are Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack; National Economic Council Deputy Director Sameera Fazili says of the group that it will "tackle near-term bottlenecks in the semiconductor" and other industries; President Joe Biden signed a February chip supply and related executive order (see our new report here).
Society of Broadcast Engineers General Counsel Chris Imlay retires, effective at year-end ... ATIS picks Virginia Tech Applied Research Corp. as technical program office for Next G Alliance and Eric Burger for VT-ARC team member; he's Georgetown University research professor and ex-FCC and becomes TPO's technical director ... Houlihan Lokey hires Walid Khiari from Rothschild & Co. as managing director, Technology, Media and Telecom Group.
Holland & Knight hires Nick Leibham as partner, Public Policy & Regulation Practice Group; he's ex-K&L Gates, where he co-headed emerging technologies and innovation practice, federal marketplace; also joining H&K from the same firm is Kathleen Nicholas as senior public affairs adviser ... Seven Letter additions include Nu Wexler, ex-Facebook, Google and Twitter, as partner at the "strategic communications" firm ... Locomation trucking technology platform with "human-guided autonomous convoying" taps Sean Rushton, ex-National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, to lead corporate communications.
National Restaurant Association taps Brennan Duckett, ex-Retail Industry Leaders Association, for public affairs team as technology and innovation policy director, working on data security, privacy, intellectual property, trademarks and music licensing ... AT&T hires Oriana Pina, ex-director of Hispanic media for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to manage public relations and communications for the company's diversity, equity and inclusion department.
Hogan Lovells adds technology-focused IP litigator Nitin Gambhir from Polsinelli as partner-Intellectual Property, Media and Technology practice; he's representing clients in computer networking, telecom, smartphones, memory controllers, entertainment, gaming and internet systems ... Univision Communications hires from Disney+ MC Cerda as the broadcaster’s first executive vice president-product and engineering, streaming ... Disney’s ESPN promotes Burke Magnus to president-programming and original content.
Signal Group hires for Strategic Communications practice include MPA ex-Chief Spokesperson and Senior Vice President-Communications Chris Ortman, most recently of Ortman Strategies, as executive vice president ... Cassandra Heyne, ex-JSI, joins SpaceX as regulatory compliance analyst ... CPA firm Baker Tilly's new partners include Cynthia Bratel for consulting with Baker Tilly Digital, along with colleagues in that practice Ollie East, Kayla Flint and Cory Wendt.