Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., elevates panel staffer Phil Brest to acting staff director and chief counsel for the committee, replacing Heather Sawyer ... Accenture Federal Services promotes Christopher Copeland to chief technology officer and Kyle Michl to chief innovation officer, new post; Accenture also starts Accenture Cloud First with $3 billion investment over three years and moves Karthik Narain to lead it, and he joins Global Management Committee ... Microsatellite developer Astranis adds ex-NASA Administrator Dan Goldin as senior adviser to the company and chair, new Technical Advisory Board.
Steptoe & Johnson starts Supply Chain team, with lawyers from various practices who already were at the firm; leaders are Jeff Weiss, who's also co-leader, International Trade Policy practice; and Eric Emerson, chair, International Trade and Investment Group; and on Supply Chain team, telecom lawyers involved are Chris Bjornson and Pantelis Michalopoulos; and for privacy, Michael Vatis and Charles-Albert Helleputte, a recent hire (see this section, Sept. 8).
RapidDeploy adds James Mitchell, ex-Verizon, as director-government strategy and relations ... Ribbon Communications taps Sam Bucci, ex-Nokia, for executive vice president-general manager, packet optical networks, new position after it bought ECI Telecom earlier this year ... Aviatrix taps Jason Langone, ex-Nutanix, for vice president-federal markets.
Public Knowledge adds Greg Guice, ex-McGuireWoods, as director-government affairs and promotes Meredith Rose to senior policy counsel ... Wi-Fi Alliance promotes Alex Roytblat to vice president-worldwide regulatory affairs ... Taxpayers Protection Alliance hires Patrick Hedger from Competitive Enterprise Institute as vice president-policy ... White & Case expands Global Intellectual Property Practice, hiring high-tech patent litigation expert Jonathan Lamberson from Fish & Richardson as partner.
OpSec Security names David Haenel, at MarkMonitor until OpSec purchased it in January, group general counsel ... FTI Consulting adds from Citibank Donald Good as managing director, Cybersecurity practice ... Xerox Chief Financial Officer William Osbourn leaving for personal reasons, effective Sept. 30; Xavier Heiss, promoted earlier this year to executive vice president-president, Europe, Middle East and Africa operations, becomes interim CFO ... 8x8 appoints Steve Seger, ex-Tibco Software, chief revenue officer.
Motion Picture Association hires Carla Sanchez Armas, ex-Mexican government official, as managing director-Latin America ... TikTok adds to work on litigation Emily Stubbs from ViacomCBS ... Annie Howell returns to Crown Media, named chief communications officer ... Digital Colony taps Matty Yohannan from Deacon Arch Partners as chief of staff to CEO Marc Ganzi.
Interactive Advertising Bureau advances David Cohen to CEO, succeeding Randall Rothenberg, who remains executive chair through 2022 ... Motion Picture Association taps John Mercurio, ex-Bitfury Group, as senior vice president-corporate communications ... Truthify adds Justin Wisz, co-founder and former CEO of Vestorly, as CEO of the mobile video platform that analyzes emotions.
American Intellectual Property Law Association advances Vincent Garlock to executive director ... Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International hires Jackie Beckwith from the American Trucking Associations as manager-government relations ... SAG-AFTRA hires Jonathan Handel as outside special counsel; he leaves The Hollywood Reporter and continues as entertainment and technology lawyer for clients that don't conflict with union's assignments.
Hearst Television advances Alvin Lustgarten to senior vice president-technology and information services ... Teradata promotes Hillary Ashton to chief product officer ... Gannett taps Mayur Gupta, ex-Freshly, for chief marketing and strategy officer; he resigns from Gannett board ... VideoAmp adds from Omnicom Media Jonathan Steuer as executive vice president-TV strategy and currency ... Workforce Logiq hires consultant William Rolack as vice president-diversity and inclusion.
Connected Nation promotes Brent Legg to executive vice president-government affairs ... Steptoe & Johnson hires from Mayer Brown privacy and cybersecurity lawyer Charles-Albert Helleputte as partner in Brussels, along with new associate Diletta De Cicco, who works on same issues; adds in New York from Dechert Michael Weiner as partner, Antitrust and Competition practice, and he has worked on tech and telecom among other issues.