Altice USA Executive Vice President-Government & Community Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer Lee Schroeder leaves the company in July, with community affairs and chief diversity officer roles going to Executive Vice President-Communications Lisa Gonzalez Anselmo, who continues to report to CEO Dexter Goei; the cable operator "will look to appoint a new head of Government Affairs" ... Among others leaving the FCC whose departure was announced Tuesday by Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel (see this section, Dec. 15 issue of this publication) are Wireline Bureau's Pricing Policy Division Deputy Chief Robin Cohn, who says retirement begins at year-end.

CTA hires American Chemistry Council’s Ed Brzytwa, also ex-Information Technology Industry Council, as vice president-international trade, succeeding departed Sage Chandler ... Among FCC staffers whom Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced Tuesday are retiring: FCC Continuity Manager.Bart Bartholomew; and, from the Media Bureau, David Roberts, attorney-adviser in the Video Division, and Shontail Ennis, administrative management specialist on the bureau’s management and resources staff.

At University of Colorado Law School, Silicon Flatirons Executive Director Amie Stepanovich resigns; Brad Bernthal, associate professor at the school and director of the Entrepreneurship Initiative at Silicon Flatirons, becomes the organization's interim executive director; Future of Privacy Forum hires Stepanovich as vice president-U.S. policy, effective in January ... Lincoln Network's Garrett Johnson takes a "non-executive leadership role as chairman," and fellow co-founder Aaron Ginn joins the board; Head-Policy Zach Graves moves up to executive director ... Squire Patton taps Gardner Foster, ex-SpaceX, as of counsel, Communications Practice.

President Joe Biden appoints California Public Utilities Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves as administrator of EPA Region 9, serving states including California, starting Dec. 20 ... BakerHostetler hires Jennifer Mitchell, ex-Sony Pictures Entertainment, as partner and member, Digital Assets and Data Management Practice Group ... Nebraska Public Service Commission votes unanimously to hire retired Nebraska Army National Guard Colonel Thomas Golden as the PSC's executive director, replacing Mike Hybl, who retired in September ... CTIA hires from the office of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Sydney Pettit, who joins as director-government affairs.

Sidley promotions, effective Jan. 1, include, to partners Emily Zipperstein, who works on mergers and acquisitions and digital media and commercial transactions; Lauren Grau, who advises on intellectual property in connection with M&A and other deals, with clients in telecom, information technology, software, media and consumer products; Rachelle Soderstrom, who works on technology and IP including in takeovers; and Benjamin Mundel, who represents telecom and other firms at trial and arbitration; while Marc Korman, who represents broadcasters, wireless operators and others on FCC and related communications law issues, moves up to counsel.

District of Columbia Public Service Commissioner Richard Beverly being reappointed for term ending June 30, 2024; PSC spokesperson notes that interim chairman is Emile Thompson, as Chairman Willie Phillips has left the agency for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (see this section, Nov. 19 issue of this publication) ... Verizon moves up Krista Bourne to chief operating officer, Verizon Consumer Group, effective Jan. 1 and reporting to Manon Brouillette, who recently was promoted to Consumer Group CEO, also effective on that date (see this section, Nov. 9 issue of this publication) ... Sonos hires Target’s Shamayne Braman as chief diversity equity and inclusion officer and Rebecca Zavin from Palo Alto Networks as senior vice president-software.

Disney hires former BP executive Geoff Morrell, also ex-ABC News, as senior executive vice president-chief corporate affairs officer, reporting to CEO Bob Chapek in newly created role and effective Jan. 24, with oversight of corporate communications, global public policy, government relations, corporate social responsibility, and environmental, social and governance teams ... Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter appoints Kimberley Isbell as acting general counsel-associate register of copyrights at the Copyright Office, which she joined in 2015 ... Aimee Meacham leaves NTIA, where she was acting deputy associate administrator-international affairs and external affairs chief, BroadbandUSA ...Vivint Smart Home promotes interim General Counsel Garner Meads to chief legal officer and secretary.

USTelecom appoints from OMB Michael Pauls as senior director-government affairs ... Information Technology and Innovation Foundation adds ex-FTC economist Julie Carlson as associate director-antitrust and innovation policy, ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy ... Kirkland & Ellis hires Scott Scheele as partner, Antitrust & Competition Practice Group; he was at DOJ as chief, Antitrust Division’s Media, Entertainment and Communications Section.

Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (see 2111290038), restructuring company, promotes Lindsey Iannucci to chief of staff-vice president of operations and moves Kayvon Beykpour, Bruce Falck and Nick Caldwell to general managers for, respectively, consumer, revenue and core tech; Michael Montano, engineering lead, and Dantley Davis, design and research lead, will step down Dec. 31, remain advisers through "end of the first quarter of 2022 to ensure an orderly transition" ... Lyft hires Elaine Paul from Amazon Studios as chief financial officer, effective Jan. 3, replacing Brian Roberts, stepping down, but staying as an adviser until June to help with the transition.

Disney elevates 14-year board veteran Susan Arnold to chair, effective Dec. 31, succeeding Bob Iger when he departs Disney at year-end ... Estrella Media hires former Univision executive Steve Mandala as chief revenue and local media officer ... E-commerce “enablement” platform WeCommerce promotes Alex Persson to CEO and appoints Chris Sparling chairman, replacing Andrew Wilkinson, who keeps his board seat ... IoT security company Identiv taps Justin Scarpulla from SpaceX as chief financial officer, effective Dec. 6 ... Synopsys announces planned 2022 retirement of CFO Trac Pham, who will remain in his current role until a successor is in place ...