Communications Personals
CTIA hires Avonne Bell, from Kelley Drye, as director-connected life, new title for job previously done by Jackie McCarthy, who went to New England Cable & Television Association (see this section, Jan. 27) ... San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo (D) announces Jordan Sun joins Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation as city's chief innovation officer; he recently returned from deployment to Afghanistan as chief operating officer, Special Operations Joint Task Force, Afghanistan Technology Team with Army.
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RingCentral appoints Gunjan Aggarwal from RELX Group as chief people officer ... Squarespace hires from Adobe Paul Gubbay as chief product officer ... President Donald Trump plans to appoint as members, Administrative Conference of the U.S., for three-year terms Roger Severino, Jennifer Dickey, Adrian Vermeule and Ronald Cass.
CTA taps David Rhew, Microsoft global chief medical officer, and Alexander Garza, SSM Health chief medical officer, to co-chair new Public Health Tech Initiative, tasked with creating recommendations on use of technology for addressing and resolving future public health crises ... DE-CIX CEO Harald Summa elected co-chair, Internet Society Organization Member Advisory Council, and ICANN says other new co-chairs are Christopher Hemmerlein from Facebook and Chris Wilson, Amazon ... Paradox appoints ex-Workday Global Chief Information Officer Diana McKenzie, Gaia Equity Managing Partner Deepak Krishnamurthy and Stanford University Graduate School of Business professor Huggy Rao to its board.
Lobbyist registrations: Nutanix, DLA Piper, effective June 4 ... RetailNext, DLA Piper, effective June 4 ... Lyft, Barnes & Thornburg, effective June 2 ... Amazon Web Services, Cypress Advocacy, effective June 1 ... ​American Innovation: The AI Project, Harbinger Strategies, effective June 1 ... Conexon, The Lugar Hellmann Group on “initiatives to provide broadband to rural communities throughout” the U.S., effective June 1 ... Facebook, The Lugar Hellmann Group on “online advertising, content and platform transparency efforts,” effective June 1 ... Secure communications provider HighSide, American Defense International, effective June 1 ... NTT Data, Becker & Poliakoff on “funding for smart city solution deployment,” effective June 1 ... Rugged Displays, Greenberg Traurig, effective June 1 ... Restaurant tech provider Toast, Lobbyit.com, effective June 1 ... Viacom, Peck Madigan, effective June 1 ... Vocera Communications, Thorn Run Partners, effective June 1 ... NextCity Networks, Becker & Poliakoff on “funding for municipal broadband and smart city solution deployment,” effective May 27 ... Twitter, TwinLogic Strategies, effective May 15 ... InterDigital, Ricchetti on standard-essential patents and “patent reform,” effective May 1.
Additional registrations: Ligado, Mayer Brown on S-4049, effective May 1 ... T-Mobile, Jenner & Block on “communications voucher proposal” in the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (Heroes) Act (HR-6800), effective May 1 ... Western Digital, Clark Street Associates, effective May 1 ... Blockchain Association, Steptoe & Johnson on “tax treatment of cryptocurrency,” effective April 29 ... Magic Leap, DLA Piper, effective April 10 ... Palo Alto Networks, DLA Piper, effective April 10 ... James Valley Wireless, Gwendolyn O’Brien Donaldson on FirstNet, effective April 1 ... OVS Media, Capstone National Partners, effective April 1 ... Stubhub, Franklin Square Group on online ticket sales, effective April 1 ... Inland Cellular, Gwendolyn O’Brien Donaldson on FirstNet, effective March 1 ... Qorvo, Clark Street Associates, effective Feb. 1 ... Alaska telecom provider Optimera, Gwendolyn O’Brien Donaldson on FirstNet, effective Jan. 1.