Disney advances Susan Fox to senior vice president-government relations, succeeding the late Richard Bates (see here) ... Ex-Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., helps start Alpine Advisors that's a partnership between him and Alpine Group; Walden is chairman of the new "policy and strategic advisory firm" that has clients including in tech and telecom ... Department of Agriculture adds Lynn Overmann, ex-Opportunity Insights, as senior adviser-data and tech, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration.
At SAIC, John Bonsell, ex-Senate Armed Services Committee majority staff director, rejoins company as senior vice president-government affairs, succeeding Senior Vice President Tom Eldridge, retiring April 30 ... Rockwell Automation names CBRE’s Bobby Griffin vice president-human resources and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, newly created role ... Comcast's FreeWheel promotes Yuling Ma to chief technology officer, succeeding Diane Yu, co-founder and CTO who was hired by Better.com.
Fortinet hires Hugh Carroll, ex-Sprint, as head-government affairs ... Hogan Lovells adds lawyer-lobbyist Cybil Roehrenbeck, ex-Polsinelli telehealth practice leader, as partner in Government Relations and Public Affairs practice, working on telehealth and artificial intelligence .... Ballard Spahr hires Ricardo Jackman, ex-Shulman Rogers, as of counsel-media and entertainment law ... CableLabs' Rachel Beisel, senior vice president-chief marketing officer, leaves "to pursue personal interests"; Director of Communications Ann Finnie is acting CMO.
McKool Smith taps Alan Whitehurst from Quinn Emanuel as principal, working on intellectual property and unfair competition litigation and specializing in telecom disputes ... Lumen hires Nick Andersen, ex-Department of Energy, as chief information security officer, public sector ... In acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel's starting Broadband Data Task Force, others named to it, besides the agency's Jean Kiddoo as chair (see our report here and more details here), are Senior Implementation Officer Chelsea Fallon and Senior Counsel Sean Spivey.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announces that Joseph Calascione, who was his acting legal adviser-wireline and consumer issues, detailed as FCC counsel to Senate Commerce Committee ... Wiley adds ex-Department of Commerce International Trade Administration Assistant Secretary-Industry and Analysis Nazak Nikakhtar as partner in International Trade Practice and co-chair of National Security Practice; she worked on e-commerce, data privacy, cybersecurity and emerging technology ... Wilkinson Barker lawyer-trademark expert Ronnie Raju promoted to partner.
Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel appoints Paloma Perez FCC press secretary, joining Office of Media Relations; she's formerly of the office of then-Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-N.M. ... Harris Wiltshire adds ex-MDC Partners General Counsel Jonathan Mirsky, returning as partner and advising telecom clients in mergers and acquisitions and commercial transactions ... Womble Bond hires attorney Alex Espinoza, ex-FCC Office of Economics and Analytics, as associate to work with wireless/ISP, media and technology firms.
Klein/Johnson Group hires Ian Rayder, ex-Colorado government staffer and formerly at Cisco, as a principal who will work on technology and other issues ... Blockchain Association hires Ron Hammond from office of Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, as director-government relations ... LightShed Ventures begins; it's a technology, media and telecom venture investment firm co-founded by General Partners Richard Greenfield, Walter Piecyk, Brandon Ross and private investment expert Jamie Roberts Seltzer; Greenfield, Piecyk and Ross worked together as research analysts and began LightShed Partners in 2019.
Engine's board promotes Kate Tummarello, ex-Communications Daily, to executive director ... Pamela Karlan of Stanford Law resigns from Facebook’s independent oversight board to join DOJ Civil Rights Division as principal deputy assistant attorney general ... Qumu hires Gigster’s Jennifer Pockell Dimas as chief marketing officer ... Payment tech company Blackhawk Network taps Nikhil Sathe from American Express, also ex-PayPal, as chief technology officer.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce advances President Suzanne Clark to also be CEO, effective March 11, when its board meets; she succeeds Thomas Donohue, continuing "in an advisory capacity" ... New America Open Technology Institute hires Maggie Farry, ex-adviser for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., as policy analyst ... Instacart adds Sarah Fleisch Fink from National Partnership for Women & Families as director-policy research and development.
Hogan Lovells promotions to counsel include in U.S. those working on tech and communications James Denvil in Privacy and Cybersecurity practice and Cameron Robinson in Intellectual Property, Media and Technology practice ... Telecommunications Industry Association promotes Colin Andrews to senior director-government affairs ... Benton Institute for Broadband & Society names Colin Rhinesmith, an associate professor in Simmons University's School of Library and Information Science and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Community Informatics, as Benton senior faculty research fellow; during his 2021-22 fellowship, he examines U.S. "digital equity ecosystems."