Akin Gump hires Courtney York, mergers and acquisitions expert with focus on telecom, media and tech, as partner in corporate practice ... Newseum President-CEO Jeffrey Herbst steps down; for now, it's led by an executive committee of Jan Neuharth, chair-CEO, Freedom Forum, its principal funder; Peter Prichard, chair, Newseum; and museum's Chief Operating Officer Scott Williams ... Altice promotes Terry Cordova to vice chairman-business development/network and technology services and moves Philippe Le May to chief technology officer ... Hogan Lovells hires ex-International Trade Commission Administrative Law Judge Theodore Essex to its Intellectual Property Litigation practice.
ZTE USA appoints Angela Simpson, ex-NTIA, vice president-U.S. government affairs ... Thompson Hine adds E.J. Joswick, ex-FisherBroyles, who has worked on media, telecom and internet related patent issues, to Intellectual Property practice as a partner ... Wilson Sonsini hires Beth George, ex-DOD, for privacy and data protection practice as of counsel ... Beyond Limits adds Mark James, ex-NASA, as chief technology officer and executive director of the artificial intelligence and cognitive computing company's BL Labs ... At CBS, Showtime Networks hires from NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Erin Calhoun as senior vice president-corporate communications.
President Donald Trump to nominate officials including: Andrei Iancu, Irell & Manella IP lawyer, as undersecretary of commerce-intellectual property and director, Patent and Trademark Office; and Adam Klein, Center for a New American Security, as member and chairman, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ... Society of Broadcast Engineers 2017 elections for national board, in new positions for those individuals: for one-year terms, effective Oct. 26, Jim Leifer, American Tower, to president; Vice President RJ Russell, WTXF-TV Philadelphia; and Treasurer Jim Bernier, Turner; and to two-year terms, also effective Oct. 26, Andrea Cummis, AC Video Solutions; she was succeeded as treasurer; Steve Lampen, Belden; Kimberly Sacks, iHeartMedia; Barry Thomas, KSE Radio; and Kevin Trueblood, WGCU Public Media ... International Launch Services promotes Peter Stier to vice president-sales.
Qualcomm President Derek Aberle decides to leave, effective Dec. 31; Executive Vice President-Qualcomm Technologies President Alex Rogers will report directly to Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf ... IPValue Management, corporate licensing and patent monetization provider, adds John Lindgren, ex-Conversant Intellectual Property Management, as president-CEO and he joins the board, succeeding Murali Dharan, who remains a board member ... Interactive Advertising Bureau names John Frelinghuysen, ex-Disney/ABC Television, publisher-in-residence.
AT&T promotes Joan Marsh to run federal regulatory relations, state external and legislative affairs regions and national regulatory organization as executive vice president-regulatory and state external affairs ... Advertising Self-Regulatory Council and Council of Better Business Bureaus appoint from the Entertainment Software Rating Board Dona Fraser as director-Children’s Advertising Review Unit, succeeding Wayne Keeley ... Honigman Miller starts autonomous vehicle industry group, hires ex-FTC attorney Steve Wernikoff to co-lead the group, which also is run by partner Tom Appledorn; Wernikoff also named co-leader-cybersecurity and privacy practice.
Intel President-Manufacturing, Operations and Sales Stacy Smith to retire Jan. 31, no successor named ... E.W. Scripps promotions: Brian Lawlor to president-local media; Laura Tomlin to senior vice president-national media; Lisa Knutson to executive vice president-chief strategy officer; Chief Financial Officer Tim Wesolowski and General Counsel William Appleton add titles of executive vice president ... Entercom names Chris Wegmann, ex-Radio One, vice president-market manager, Entercom New Orleans ... Sinclair Broadcast names ex-producer Scott Ehrlich vice president-emerging platform content.
Mediacom promotions: Barry Paden to senior vice president-programming, Louis Gentile to group vice president-internal audit, Mary Green to vice president-internal audit. Joseph Michulski to vice president-finance, Debra Zullo to vice president-IT ... Maya Uppaluru, ex-FCC, to join Crowell & Moring's digital health team.
President Donald Trump to name John Sherman, deputy director-CIA’s Open Source Enterprise, chief information officer of the intelligence community, Office of the Director of National Intelligence ... House Commerce Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee promotes Melissa Froelich to chief counsel ... Cox Media Group promotes Mary Ellen Marcilliat-Falkner to senior vice president-chief human relations officer, effective Sept. 11 ... Nexstar Media Group says Sean Banks will return to WOWK-TV Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia, and associated digital services as vice president-general manager ... Lobbyist registrations: Intel, Venn Strategies, effective Aug. 1 ... Times-Shamrock Communications, DMM Strategies, effective Aug. 1 ... Totah Communications, Ehrlich & Associates, effective July 15.
FCC outgoing Chief Information Officer David Bray hired by People-Centered Internet as executive director, starting by the end of September; he was previously going to move from FCC to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency as director of NGIA's new Office of Ventures and Innovation (see this section of the June 6 issue of this publication) ... Telesat adds satellite industry expert Don Brown, with recent past affiliations at Speedcast and Renaissance Strategic Advisors, as general manager-government services ... Nexstar Media promotes Andrew Alford to senior vice president-regional manager, overseeing broadcast and digital operations in Southeastern regional markets.
Kelley Drye elects Marisa Lorenzo partner and Mike Dover promoted to special counsel, both in the Communications Practice Group ... Technology Policy Institute adds John Horrigan, ex-Pew Research Center, as senior fellow ... Alan Devlin, ex-FTC Competition Bureau (see 1707050037), rejoins Latham & Watkins as counsel, Global Antitrust & Competition practice in the Litigation & Trial Department, working on issues including transactions and intellectual property ... USTelecom promotes Robert Mayer to senior vice president-cybersecurity ... Pandora hires Todd Novick, ex-WTTG Washington, as political, advocacy and government East Coast sales manager.