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.

Center for American Restoration names Adam Candeub, ex-NTIA, FCC and elsewhere, as senior fellow to "reform Big Tech so corporate power cannot be weaponized against Americans," President Russ Vought says April 5; Vought ran OMB last administration ... Cybercrime intelligence platform Intel 471 hires Brandon Hoffman from Netenrich as its first chief information security officer and promotes Joy Nemitz to chief marketing officer ... At Disney, Jane Gould promoted to executive vice president-content research, insights and scheduling, Disney General Entertainment Content.

Snap hires Kelsey Donohue, formerly of Michelle Obama’s White House press office, for its communications team in Washington, focusing on public policy, social impact and platform safety and integrity ... Comcast Advertising promotes Tony Sanchez to vice president-customer experience ... Lumen taps Annette Murphy from Zayo as managing director-Europe, Middle East and Africa ... Velocity promotes Chief Operating Officer Mark Walker to also be president and appoints CEO Greg Kiley to added role of chairman ... With Salem Media's Chuck Jewel retiring from Houston cluster of stations, Darren Ryder, ex-Townsquare Media, replaces him as general manager; Ryder was GM of Salem’s Orlando operation "a number of years ago" and now rejoins the company.

CommScope hires Anixter International’s Justin Choi, also former Avaya and Lucent Technologies, as chief legal officer to succeed Burk Wyatt, retiring June 1 ... Digital intelligence platform Netenrich hires Vectra AI’s Christopher Morales chief information security officer and head-security strategy ... CBS announces Neeraj Khemlani, from Hearst, and Wendy McMahon, ex-ABC Owned Television Stations Group, as presidents and co-heads of newly formed division that combines CBS News' and the CBS Television Stations' journalistic and business resources into one divisional and leadership structure.

Disney hires Kimberly Godwin from CBS as president-ABC News, overseeing editorial and business operations … Lumen appoints Jason Lish, ex-Advisor Group, chief security officer … Mastercard promotes General Counsel Tim Murphy to chief administrative officer, newly created role, with oversight of law, franchise and integrity activities, plus added management of people and capabilities; Michael Fraccaro remains chief people officer and a member of the management committee, reporting to Murphy; Richard Verma advances to general counsel-head of global public policy ... Newly promoted to Canon USA vice presidents-general managers: Shinya Fukuda, corporate planning; Yukinari Kaneta, corporate IT; Isao Kobayashi, Imaging Technologies and Communications Group; Amy Newman, general affairs and procurement; and to vice presidents: Marie Abbondondolo, audit, credit and risk; and Brian Mahar, Imaging Technologies and Communications Group.

CTA promotes Suzanna Kang to general counsel … Electronic Transactions Association, which represents payments and tech companies, taps Matt Tremblay, ex-Project Management Institute, as senior manager-state government affairs … Intel moves Dawn Jones to permanent post of chief diversity and inclusion officer and vice president-social impact.