Consumer Reports hires Justin Brookman, ex-FTC (see this section of the Aug. 8 issue of this publication), as director-consumer privacy and technology policy, Consumers Union ... President Donald Trump appoints Cameron Quinn, ex-Agriculture Department, officer for civil rights and civil liberties, Department of Homeland Security ... Sony Electronics hires Cheryl Goodman, ex-Athena San Diego and ex-Qualcomm, as head-corporate communications, succeeding John Dolak, who recently left the company.
Google’s Waymo self-driving car subsidiary hires David Quinalty, Senate Commerce Committee telecom policy aide, as public policy and government affairs head ... PdvWireless hires Kevin Malloy, ex-National Grid, as director-business development, Strategy and Regulatory Affairs team ... Herring Networks hires Bruce Littman, ex-Anthem Sports, as executive vice president-content distribution ... ASCAP adds Tristan Boutros, ex-New York Times, as chief technology officer ... Trustworthy Accountability Group recent hires include Bonnie Niederstrasser, ex-Charter Communications, as director-policy and programs, and Dominique Matthews, ex-CoreLogic SafeRent, as manager-operations and compliance.
Pandora says it has hired Roger Lynch, founding CEO of Sling TV, as CEO-president and board member, effective Sept. 18; interim CEO Naveen Chopra remains chief financial officer and Michael Lynton, ex-Sony, joins the board; Dish Network says President-Chief Operating Officer Erik Carlson adds to his portfolio Sling TV, with changes there effective Aug. 31 ... SiriusXM hires Mike Connolly, ex-ESPN, as head-advertising sales, reporting to President-Chief Content Officer Scott Greenstein ... AccuWeather taps Eric Danetz, ex-Time Inc., as global chief revenue officer.
Best Best law firm hires technology and telecom expert John Gasparini, ex-Public Knowledge, as associate, Municipal Law and Telecom practices ... BSA|The Software Alliance hires Shaundra Watson, ex-office of FTC then-Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, as director-policy, working on privacy and artificial intelligence issues ... Business Roundtable adds from the Center for Strategic and International Studies Denise Zheng as vice president, overseeing the Technology, Internet and Innovation Committee.
Comcast adds New Jersey Consumer Affairs Division Chief Steve Lee, leaving government post in September, as deputy general counsel ... Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy names Kathleen Hall Jamieson, co-founder of FactCheck.org, as one of its fall 2017 fellows; Ex-FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is media and democracy fellow for the 2017-18 academic year, researching and teaching a study group on public policy and technology ... Society of Professional Journalists departures: Joe Skeel, executive director, effective Dec. 1, hired for same title at Indiana State Bar Association; and Chris Vachon, associate executive director, hired as Investigative Reporters & Editors director-partnerships.
Fossil Group names board member Jeffrey Boyer, who leaves Oct. 3 as Pier 1 Imports chief financial officer, as executive vice president-CFO, effective Oct. 16, replacing Dennis Secor, who's leaving the company to relocate back to California for personal reasons (see 1708090030) ... Graham Media moves up Jaimie León to vice president-general manager, WSLS-TV Roanoke, Virginia ... Sanmina promotes David Anderson to executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Oct. 2, succeeding Bob Eulau, previously named CEO.
UHD Alliance hires Mike Fidler, ex-Sony, as its first full-time dedicated president; Warner Vice President-Technology Michael Zink succeeds Hanno Basse, 20th Century Fox Film chief technology officer, as alliance chairman ... Mintz Levin adds Sean Grygiel, ex-Perkins Coie, as member, and part of Intellectual Property practice ... Velodyne LiDAR hires from VeriSilicon Holdings Bob Brown as chief financial officer ... J.D. Power adds from Huge Bernardo Rodriguez as chief digital officer, new post.
WideOpenWest adds to board Tom McMillin, TierPoint and Cequel III, and ex-Suddenlink Communications ... Leaving FTC, no new plans announced: Justin Brookman, policy director-Office of Technology Research and Investigation ... Lauren Huston leaves Senate Commerce Committee, where she was press secretary and digital director, to be full-time law student ... SintecMedia promotes Lorne Brown to CEO; founder Amotz Yarden, former CEO of the broadcast and digital management software provider, retiring and remains on the board ... BDO USA names Gregory Garrett, ex-UIC/Bowhead, Blue Canopy Group and Lucent, head-international cybersecurity, Technology and Business Transformation Services practice.
FCC elevates Jim Balaguer to deputy director-Office of Legislative Affairs ... AT&T hires Brian Lesser from GroupM North America to build and lead advertising and analytics business as CEO, reporting to the parent company's CEO Randall Stephenson, who says that once it buys Time Warner, "there is an opportunity to build an automated advertising platform that can do for premium video and TV advertising what the search and social media companies have done for digital advertising” ... CTA Chief Economist Shawn DuBravac departs to start new consulting firm, Astra Insights, will remain a CTA consultant on "specific projects" at January CES.
Additional changes at AT&T: Glenn Lurie, president-CEO of mobility and consumer operations, retiring Sept. 1; reporting to John Donovan, moving to CEO, AT&T Communications amid the company buying Time Warner (see this section of the Aug. 1 issue of this publication), are Senior Executive Vice President-AT&T Technology and Operations Melissa Arnoldi and AT&T Business CEO Thaddeus Arroyo; Entertainment Group now led by President-AT&T Entertainment Group David Christopher, Senior Executive Vice President-Digital, Retail and Care Rasesh Patel and Senior Executive Vice President-Chief Content Officer Daniel York.