Quantcast adds Min-Jae Lee, ex-The Trade Desk lead privacy counsel, as its chief privacy officer ... Mutualink hires Chrissie Coon, ex-FirstNet, as the public safety technology interoperability provider’s first chief customer experience officer ... Fox Corp. adds Brian Nick from Coca-Cola Consolidated as executive vice president-chief communications officer, effective July 31.
CTIA veteran Hank Kilgore becomes senior adviser to Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa. ... Wilkinson Barker hires ex-Colorado state Rep. KC Becker (D) as partner; as an elected official, she worked on broadband and other tech issues ... Sheppard Mullin hires Wynter Deagle, ex-Troutman Pepper, as partner, Intellectual Property practice group and member, Privacy and Cybersecurity team ... Davis Polk elections to partner include Matthew Bacal, a member of the IP and Tech Transactions and the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity practices.
President Joe Biden to nominate House Commerce Committee Chief Counsel-Communications and Consumer Protection Alexander Hoehn-Saric for chair, Consumer Product Safety Commission ... Ballard Spahr hires litigator Tracy Rane, ex-Kasowitz Benson, as of counsel; she works on copyright and trademark infringement, right of privacy, and other matters and has media and entertainment clients ... At ViacomCBS, Johnny Green advances to president-general manager, CBS News and Television Stations’ local businesses in the New York market, including WCBS-TV New York, WLNY-TV Riverhead, CBSN New York and CBSNewYork.com.
House Commerce Committee promotes Deputy Staff Director Tiffany Guarascio to staff director, replacing Jeff Carroll, leaving Capitol Hill; General Counsel Waverly Gordon adds title of deputy staff director ... North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) reappoints Charlotte Mitchell as Public Utilities Commission chair.
Kelley Drye promotes to partner New York litigator Levi Downing, focusing on trademark, trade dress, copyright, false advertising, unfair competition ... In ViacomCBS leadership simplification, Chris McCarthy promoted to president-CEO, MTV Entertainment Group, and Brian Robbins to president-CEO, Nickelodeon; George Cheeks, CBS president-CEO, adds responsibility for a global content strategy across ViacomCBS’ FTA networks around the world; Dan Cohen, president-ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group, adds distribution of ViacomCBS International Studios content.
Charter names Ashley Baker Hayes, ex-Sanofi, vice president-legislative Affairs ... Matthew Derella resigns as Twitter customers lead, effective Aug. 6 ... President Joe Biden nominates Jennifer Sung, ex-Oregon Employment Relations Board, to seat on 9th U.S. Court of Appeals ...
Supply chain security company Finite State adds Eric Greenwald from the National Security Council under President Barack Obama as general counsel; taps Hewlett Packard’s Mark Hodgson as its first executive vice president-marketing; and hires Jeff Martin from WhiteSource Software as vice president-product ... Software company Freshworks hires Comcast’s Randi Bryant as its first chief diversity and inclusion officer.
Kevin Amer moves up to acting general counsel and associate register of copyrights at the U.S. Copyright Office, effective July 2, when current General Counsel Regan Smith departs ... Toshiba America Business Solutions promotes Larry White to president-CEO, effective July 1, to succeed retiring Scott Maccabe, named an adviser to Toshiba Tec parent company ... LiDAR systems provider AEye hires Sense Photonics’ Hod Finkelstein, also ex-Intel, as chief R&D officer.
FTC confirms Chair Lina Khan names three officials, who have been advisers to Commissioner Rohit Chopra, to new posts: Holly Vedova as acting director, Competition Bureau; Sam Levine for acting director, Consumer Protection Bureau; and Erie Meyer is the agency’s chief technologist and policy adviser to Khan ... Covington & Burling taps Brian Nester, ex-Sidley Austin, as partner, Patent Litigation Practice; his telecom and chip clients included Intel, Microsoft, Nokia and Samsung.
ViacomCBS moves Tanya Giles to chief programming officer-streaming, Paramount+ and Pluto TV, a new post, and “expanded global responsibilities” are for CBS President-CEO George Cheeks, also as chief content officer-news and sports, Paramount+; Paramount Pictures Chairman-CEO Jim Gianopulos, also chief content officer-movies, Paramount+; President-Music, Music Talent, Programming and Events Bruce Gillmer also is chief content officer-music, Paramount+; MTV Entertainment Group President Chris McCarthy adds chief content officer, unscripted entertainment and adult animation, Paramount+; Showtime Networks Chairman-CEO David Nevins expands to also be chief content officer, scripted originals, Paramount+; Nicole Clemens is president-Paramount Television Studios, now including president, Paramount+ original scripted series; and Kids & Family Entertainment President Brian Robbins adds chief content officer-kids and family, Paramount+.