NATE adds Sara Goddard, ex-city of Watertown, South Dakota, as marketing coordinator … HJI Supply Chain Solutions promotes Lynn Houston Moore to CEO … CleverTap announces Abhishek Gupta, from Sprinklr, as chief customer success officer ...Synopsys advances Sassine Ghazi to chief operating officer … SkyTerra Technologies hires tech exec Chris Lowe as IT team lead … Society of Broadcast Engineers elects Fred Willard, chapter 37, Washington, D.C., to board …
Jennifer Taylor departs as CTA vice president-industry affairs to become president-CEO of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, succeeding Bobbie Kilberg (see this section, July 27) ... Elastic Path, digital commerce provider, appoints Jamus Driscoll, ex-Moltin, CEO, succeeding founder Harry Chemko, who becomes chief strategy officer.
National Music Publishers’ Association hires Ashley Joyce, trademark and copyright lawyer from DLA Piper, as senior vice president-legal and business affairs … ICANN adds role of managing director for the Middle East and Africa for Vice President-Stakeholder Engagement for Middle East Baher Esmat; he replaces Nick Tomasso, who remains vice president-global meeting operations.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) creates Data Privacy and Security Division, naming Sara Cable its chief; she had been AG’s Consumer Protection Division director-data privacy and security ... Telecommunications Law Professionals hires Ashley Brydone-Jack, ex-District of Columbia Superior Court clerk, as an associate.
Venable hires online advertising, mobile devices, social media and connected devices privacy and cybersecurity expert Reed Freeman from WilmerHale as partner, eCommerce, Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice ... SkyWater Technology adds John Cooney from Department of Commerce as director-U.S. government relations ... TechNet hires Chris Gilrein from Massachusetts Life Sciences Center as executive director-Massachusetts and the Northeast.
Trustworthy Accountability Group, self-regulatory advertising industry initiative to fight criminal activity in the digital advertising supply chain, hires Danielle Meah, from Citigroup, as first director-threat intelligence ... BBB National Programs promotes Dona Fraser to senior vice president-privacy initiatives, new position, and announces Josh Harris, ex-TrustArc, as director-global privacy initiatives … IHeartMedia taps Zac Davis, ex-Entercom, as vice president-programming for Greensboro, North Carolina, market.
TechNet hires Carl Holshouser, ex-PwC, as senior vice president-operations and strategic initiatives … ChaosSearch, cloud data lake platform analytics company, appoints Ed Walsh, ex-IBM, as CEO and board member … Nexstar Broadcasting names David Bangura, from Michigan’s WADL Mount Clemens and WFDF(AM) Farmington Hills, vice president-general manager, Washington, D.C., designated market area … Sinclair promotes Cortlandt Cuffee to vice president-general manager, Oregon’s KATU Portland and KUNP La Grande.
Wisper ISP, selling a minority interest to Cable One, says founder Nathan Stooke, previously the sole owner, remains largest owner and CEO ... Comcast NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group advances Migdalia Figueroa to president-general manager, WTMO Orlando ... With UPS promoting Laura Lane as it created Corporate Affairs and Communications Office (see this section, July 30), Mike Kiely and Penny Naas elevated to co-lead Global Public Affairs; Kiely as president-U.S. Government Affairs and Naas, president-International Public Affairs and Sustainability ... Activision Blizzard adds Tony Petitti, ex-Major League Baseball deputy commissioner-business and media, as president-sports and entertainment.
Arnold & Porter adds from Banner Witcoff Christopher Renk and Michael Harris as partners and Helen Minsker as senior counsel, all in Intellectual Property practice and working on issues including tech ... Semiconductor Research Corp. board names its Joint University Microelectronics Program Executive Director Todd Younkin, ex-Intel, as president-CEO, SRC, succeeding Ken Hansen ... Flex hires Paul Lundstrom, ex-Aerojet Rocketdyne, as chief financial officer, succeeding Chris Collier, resigning for personal reasons and staying on as employee and a senior adviser to CEO Revathi Advaithi, Sept. 1-March 31.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announces changes in his office (see also this section, Aug. 7 issue): Sean Spivey joins from Wireless Bureau as wireless and international adviser, replacing Aaron Goldberger, returning to the bureau; Allison Baker named economic adviser, comes from Wireline Bureau; chairman’s Rural Broadband Adviser Preston Wise expands role to wireline adviser, replacing Nirali Patel, going back to Wireline Bureau; and Melissa Kirkel, who has been on detail as special counsel-wireline, returns to the bureau ... Arnold & Porter hires Jessica Monahan from National Association of Counties as policy adviser; she has worked on transportation and technology ... Scanlon Rabinowitz adds Roy Shulman, ex-Prudential Financial, as special counsel focusing on technology, contract and intellectual property law.