Perkins Coie hires Adrienne Ehrhardt from Michael Best & Friedrich as partner, Technology Transactions & Privacy practice; she has worked on privacy, data management and cybersecurity ... Salt Point Strategies adds Jared Weaver, ex-Alpine Group and who has had broadband, autonomous vehicle and music-industry clients, as partner in its strategic consulting and advocacy practice ... Nexstar Media promotes Andy Alford to president-broadcasting, effective June 1 and taking over from Tim Busch, retiring.
Wiley adds former T-Mobile USA Vice President-Government Affairs Charles McKee as partner, Telecom, Media & Technology practice ... Best Best law firm names Cheryl Leanza as of counsel, telecom practice at the law firm, which she had been working with and where she represents localities in court; Leanza tells us she continues her consulting practice, A Learned Hand, advising United Church of Christ, among other clients ... Comcast Ex-Senior Deputy General Counsel Shelita Stewart rejoins Hogan Lovells, named partner, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment practice group.
Edison Electric Institute hires Allison Bury from Energy Department's National Laboratory Operations Board as director-government relations ... Verizon Business appoints Peter Mitchell general manager, Verizon Connect, expanding his role as company’s chief technology officer ... Fox promotes Steve Chung to chief growth officer, newly created job ... Nextdoor hires LinkedIn’s Kiran Prasad as head-product ... Best Buy President-Chief Operating Officer Mike Mohan leaves, effective July 1, and won't be replaced.
ASCAP advances Gregory Morgado to executive vice president-deputy general counsel ... Jennifer Chronis moves up to senior vice president, Verizon Public Sector, after joining the telco from Amazon Web Services in 2020 to lead the Federal business ... Comcast Advertising taps Rick Mandler, ex-true[X] and Disney/ABC, as vice president-growth strategy, newly created job.
TDS Telecom appoints Kit Beyer, ex-Wisconsin State Assembly's Office of the Speaker, as director-external affairs and communications ... Rhino hires VMware’s Jeff Le as vice president-public policy and external affairs ... Next Coast Ventures adds former Ultimate Software CEO Adam Rogers as partner ... Udemy hires Omada Health’s Sarah Blanchard as chief financial officer ... Teal Communications adds former AT&T Mobility and Consumer Operations CEO Glenn Lurie, also ex-Synchronoss Technologies, to its board.
TechFreedom hires as its first free speech counsel Ari Cohn, who has had his own law practice and previously worked at Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's Individual Rights Defense Program ... Zayo leadership appointments include Mike Mooney as chief legal officer; he has been general counsel and was lead attorney during Zayo's $14.3 billion going private transaction (for more personnel news at the company, see this section next week).
Searchlight Capital Partners appoints Ajit Pai, ex-FCC chairman, as partner and "prospective board member of a number of Searchlight’s existing investments" in technology, media and telecom ... BSA|The Software Alliance adds Henry Young, ex-Department of Commerce, as director-policy, working on cybersecurity issues, including 5G and IT modernization ... Aerospace Industries Association hires GE Aviation Executive Director-Global Government Relations Peter Prowitt as AIA chief operating officer, effective in July.
Twitter hires Lea Kissner, ex-Zoom, as head-privacy engineering ... Silicon Labs promotes Chief Strategy Officer Daniel Cooley to chief technology officer and Matt Johnson to president; company also agrees to sell a business to Skyworks for $2.75 billion (see separate report in this issue) ... Games development studio Workinman Interactive hires former Nickelodeon and Amazon executive Roy Contreras as CEO.
Retiring from the FCC, acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel says, are Carmen Scanlon, an attorney with the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau's Intergovernmental Affairs Office; Wireless Bureau Mobility Division Deputy Chief Kathy Harris; Diane Garfield from the International Bureau electronics engineering section; and Rita Cookmeyer, a program manager ... Public Knowledge adds Antoine Prince Albert, ex-Georgetown Institute for Technology Law & Policy, as policy counsel, working on digital platform governance, digital inclusion, free expression online and net neutrality.
JMA Wireless appoints Bill Plummer, who led government relations for Smartmatic and, before that was at Huawei Technologies, as senior vice president-communications and external affairs; Plummer has been consulting with JMA since February ... U.S. Chamber of Commerce promotes Justin Waller to executive vice president-chief operating officer and hires Stefan Freiberg from International Council of Shopping Centers as chief financial officer, reporting to Waller ... Luminar Technologies taps Tesla’s Alan Prescott as chief legal officer and Trey Campbell from Intel as vice president-investor relations.