American Enterprise Institute adds from Heritage Foundation Center for Technology Policy Klon Kitchen (see this section, Feb. 8 issue of this publication) as resident fellow, focusing on "national security and defense technology, defense innovation, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, quantum sciences, and robotics" ... Jenner & Block hires partners for Patent Litigation and Counseling Practice, who work on tech and other issues involving the International Trade Commission and become practice leaders of the law firm's new ITC Section 337 group: Mark Davis and Ronald Pabis, both from Goodwin Procter, and Alexander Hadjis from Oblon McClelland.
House Financial Services Committee hires as director-finance and technology policy Avy Mallik, ex-Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions Subcommittee ... IBM moves up Steve LaFleche to general manager, U.S. Public and Federal Market ... Faegre Drinker hires Dylan Carson, ex-DOJ Antitrust Division Media, Entertainment and Communications section, as partner, antitrust practice of the law firm's litigation group ... Heritage Foundation promotes Lora Ries to director, Center for Technology Policy, replacing Klon Kitchen, leaving Heritage ... Technology Coalition names Sean Litton, ex-International Justice Mission, executive director.
Department of Agriculture announces senior staff, including Deputy Assistant Secretary-Congressional Relations Anne Knapke, ex-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Director Liz Archuleta, ex-Arizona county official; Office of Congressional Relations Legislative Director Jasmine Dickerson, ex-staffer for House Agriculture Committee; and Office of the Secretary Deputy White House Liaison Brandon Chaderton, ex-director of human resources, 2021 Presidential Inaugural Committee ... TechFreedom adds ex-FTC Office of Policy Planning Director Bilal Sayyed as senior adjunct fellow.
Sony Electronics North America promotes Neal Manowitz to president-chief operating officer, effective with the April 1 start of fiscal 2021, succeeding Mike Fasulo, retiring after 37 years with Sony ... Texas Public Utility Commission promotes Connie Corona to deputy executive director ... Cox Media Group moves up Rob Babin to senior vice president-radio and Executive Leadership Team member ... Meredith adds Diane Parker, ex-Associated Press, as vice president-diversity and inclusion, succeeding Shona Pinnock, who left the broadcaster in the fall "for a new opportunity."
DocuSign hires Cinnamon Rogers, ex-CompTIA, as its first in-house head-global government affairs ... T-Mobile hires for government affairs Will Adams, ex-FCC (see this section, Dec. 11), as vice president-strategic policy and planning; and Clint Odom, ex-National Urban League, as vice president-strategic alliances and external affairs ... NetApp hires Kristen Verderame, who was consulting for the company, as vice president-government relations ... Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) taps Public Service Commission Secretary-Chief Legal Counsel Christopher Petrie as a PSC commissioner, replacing Kara Fornstrom, who resigned for a job outside the state.
Facebook promotes Kevin Martin to global head-economic policy and hires Henry Moniz from ViacomCBS to lead the social media company’s global compliance team in a newly created job ... House Commerce Committee new ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., announces committee senior staff: Kate O’Connor remains chief counsel, Communications Subcommittee, and Tim Kurth continues as chief counsel, Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee ... Babette Boliek joined DOJ Antitrust Division Dec. 28, on detail there from her post as professor, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law.
Time Warner Cable alumnus Fernando Laguarda, faculty director of American University Washington College of Law Program on Law and Government, steps down to become general counsel of AmeriCorps, succeeded for now by Stephen Wermiel, professor of practice in constitutional law, as acting director of the AU program and the Oversight Project, while Jeffrey Lubbers, professor of practice in administrative law, takes over Laguarda’s teaching duties ... Coming from Citi, Jeff Grossman joins Cooley executive team as chief strategy and legal practice officer, new post ... Lincoln Network starts program on technology, criminal justice and civil liberties, led by Arthur Rizer, ex-R Street Institute, who joins as vice president for the program.
Jenner & Block hires Madeleine Findley from Medtronic as partner, Communications, Internet, and Technology and Data Privacy and Cybersecurity practices ... Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) appoints District of Columbia Office of Unified Communications Professional Standards and Development Chief Cleo Subido as interim director, OUC, whose last head resigned amid dispatching errors (see here) ... Blockchain Association hires Dan Spuller from Chamber of Digital Commerce as BA's director-industry affairs; Lindsey Kelleher, ex-BA intern, as policy manager; and Sarah Milby, ex-intern, as policy manager ... IHeartMedia moves Yesenia Bello to its first senior vice president-diversity and inclusion; for more broadcaster diversity efforts, see below in this section.
Sinclair taps Jeffrey Lewis, ex-AT&T, for chief compliance officer, new position supervising functions including regulatory, competition and privacy; broadcaster promotes Billy Robbins to vice president-general manager, WBFF Baltimore, also overseeing company’s services to WNUV Baltimore ... Rob Leathern, ex-Facebook, says he joins Google Privacy and Data Protection Office to lead product development and is a vice president; company doesn't comment ... Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and Leadership Conference Education Fund add Kiersten Thornton, ex-National Association of Home Builders and Wiley law firm, as vice president-people and culture; and Stephen Peters, ex-Modern Military Association of America, as director-media relations; and moves Tamara Chrisler to senior adviser-organizational compliance and development.
Newest FCC member Nathan Simington appoints Carolyn Roddy, ex-NTIA, as wireline adviser and chief of staff; Erin Boone, ex-Wireless Bureau Competition and Infrastructure Division, for wireless adviser; Adam Cassady, who co-founded technology firm, as media adviser; Michael Sweeney, ex-White House Office of Presidential Personnel, for confidential assistant; and Carlos Minnix, formerly in then-FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s office, now staff assistant ... Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Chairman Adam Klein to resign by time successor is confirmed to complete his term that ends in January 2024.