FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says wireline adviser Nirali Patel, wireless and international adviser Aaron Goldberger and wireline expert Melissa Kirkel are leaving his office, and spokesperson later says those staffers are returning to their bureaus; International Bureau Satellite Division Chief Jose Albuquerque retiring; and Pai office interns including Joe Kane have their terms ending ... Information Technology Industry Council taps Robert Strayer, former State Department deputy assistant secretary-cyber and international communications and information policy, as executive vice president-policy (see 2008060068) ... Open Markets Institute and Center for Journalism & Liberty hire Johnny Ryan, formerly at Brave privacy web browser, as senior OMI fellow and to CJL Trans-Atlantic Board as advisory member.
Rose Bowl Stadium and Rose Bowl Legacy launch Rose Bowl Institute to "champion sportsmanship and leverage the power of sports to unite people," with ex-Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program Executive Director Charlie Firestone the new think tank's president ... FirstNet adds Brandon Allen from International Association of Fire Chiefs as telecom policy analyst ... North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) selects Thomas Parrish as acting secretary, Department of Information Technology, where he's deputy chief information officer; Parrish succeeds Tracy Doaks (see June 19 issue, this section).
USTelecom hires Josh Bercu, departing Wilkinson Barker, for vice president-policy and advocacy, and Kayla Gardner from Wireless Infrastructure Association as director-policy and partnerships, effective Aug. 24 ... Intelsat adds Peter Davidson, ex-George Mason University Law School, as vice president-global government affairs and policy, new post ... Homeland Security and Defense Business Council appoints Rafael Borras from A.T. Kearney as president-CEO; ex-HSDBC President-CEO Marc Pearl retired in March.
Takatoshi Tsujimura of Konica Minolta becomes Society for Information Display president, succeeding Helge Seetzen, TandemLaunch, whose two-year term expires ... Dish Network hires William Beckwith, ex-FCC Public Safety Bureau, as director-wireless regulatory affairs ... Perkins Coie adds Stephen Ferruolo, ex-University of San Diego School of Law dean, as partner, Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice; the life sciences lawyer also works on technology issues.
Paul Weiss adds from Boies Schiller Meredith Dearborn and Jessica Phillips as partners, Litigation Department; the trial lawyers have represented technology businesses ... Mechanical Licensing Collective hires Monique Benjamin , ex-Warner Music Nashville, as head-finance; Natalie Kilgore, ex-BBR Music Group, as head-public relations; and Maurice Russell, ex-Media Rights Management, as head-rights management ... House Commerce Committee Deputy Press Secretary Evan Gilbert leaving panel for law school.
FCC hires Tom Struble from R Street Institute as legal adviser, Office of Engineering and Technology ... With Trustworthy Accountability Group and Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards combining, Internet Advertising Bureau chief Mike Zaneis will be CEO for the combined organization, to be called TAG, while Jicwebs' Jules Kendrick is managing director-U.K. and Europe; deal to be completed in September ... David Lieber from Google says he joins TikTok public policy team to work on privacy; company doesn't comment further.
International Cable Protection Committee's new general manager is Ryan Wopschall, who was an ICPC member-company representative, replacing Keith Schofield, steps down ... UPS promotes Laura Lane, ex-Time Warner, to chief corporate affairs and communications officer, running public policy and government affairs, public relations, employee communications and UPS Foundation.
DOJ Antitrust Division chief Makan Delrahim promotes Taylor Owings to division acting chief of staff and senior counsel, succeeding outgoing COS William Rinner, who's senior counsel until planned departure from the department "in the coming months" ... Verizon Public Sector names Jennifer Chronis, ex-Amazon Web Services, to lead Federal business; Michael Maiorana, Verizon Federal lead, leaving the business effective Dec. 31 ... Corning taps Chief Legal and Administrative Officer Lewis Steverson to lead new Office of Racial Equality and Social Unity, tasked with building diversity “within the walls of Corning” and in its “communities.”
CTIA hires Avonne Bell, from Kelley Drye, as director-connected life, new title for job previously done by Jackie McCarthy, who went to New England Cable & Television Association (see this section, Jan. 27) ... San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo (D) announces Jordan Sun joins Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation as city's chief innovation officer; he recently returned from deployment to Afghanistan as chief operating officer, Special Operations Joint Task Force, Afghanistan Technology Team with Army.
CenturyLink advances Senior Vice President Dave Young to add hyperscaler business responsibilities as senior vice president-public sector and global hyperscaler ... Alphabet's Verily hires Cynthia Patton from Amgen as general counsel ... DOD Deputy Chief Information Officer-Cybersecurity and Chief Information Security Officer Jack Wilmer leaving ... Northern Virginia Technology Council appointed Brad Schwartz, ex-Blue Canopy, acting president-CEO; Bobbie Kilberg retiring and for a time is NVTC president-CEO emeritus-strategic adviser.