CPB Senior Vice President-System Development and Media Strategy Ted Krichels retiring ... Paul Grewal from Facebook joins Coinbase as chief legal officer ... Intellectual Ventures hires Arvin Patel for chief operating officer, Invention Investment Fund, September start expected; he's ex-TiVo, which just combined with Xperi ... Axiologic Solutions names Louis Chabot, ex-Perspecta, chief technology officer, new post at the federal IT vendor.
New to Mintz Technology, Communications & Media Practice as members from Davis Wright are Scott Thompson and Daniel Reing, with former also chair of the section’s Communications Infrastructure Litigation Practice ... Tampa Electric and TECO Peoples Gas add from Duke Energy Mike Sewell as director-federal affairs ... Exiting bankruptcy, subsea cable systems operator Seaborn taps board members Pete Hayes, founder and CEO of Middleburg Venture Partners, for interim CEO; and Don Shassian, ex-Outfront Media and previously Frontier Communications, as interim chief financial officer; ex-CEO Larry Schwartz and former CFO Roger Kuebel leave.
U.S. Agency for Global Media new CEO Michael Pack names James Miles, founding partner of Haynsworth Baldwin, acting CEO, Open Technology Fund ... Waymo's new head-global public policy is Michelle Peacock, ex-Turo … Lina Khan, antitrust expert who has worked for U.S. government, joining Columbia law faculty, professor Tim Wu says; she and school don't provide further details ... In Finsbury, The Glover Park Group and Hering Schuppener becoming Finsbury Glover Hering, those WPP conglomerate companies combined launch in early 2021: Finsbury founder Roland Rudd and GPG founder Carter Eskew are co-chairs; Hering Schuppener Managing Partner Alexander Geiser is CEO; WPP CEO Mark Read joins "integrated" company's board.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names Deputy General Counsel Ashley Boizelle also acting general counsel July 13-Sept. 4, while General Counsel Tom Johnson on paternity leave ... National Music Publishers’ Association promotes Amelia Binder to senior vice president-government affairs; Kartraice Hooper to vice president-external affairs and events; Stephanie Li to vice president-membership and partnerships; and Briana Berkley to director-operations, remaining also executive assistant to CEO David Israelite and Executive Vice President Danielle Aguirre; Berkley also becomes lead liaison with some consultants.
DLA Piper hires from KPMG Ronald Plesco as partner, Intellectual Property and Technology practice ... With Public Media Venture Group working with Convergence Services Inc. on ATSC 3.0 for PMVG’s noncommercial stations, CSI President John Lawson named adviser, PMVG; he's also executive director, Advanced Warning and Response Network Alliance ... Federal Acquisition Service Deputy Commissioner and Director-Technology Transformation Services Anil Cheriyan "returning to the private sector for a new career opportunity," General Services Administration says.
Kelley Drye promotions include to special counsel Bradford Currier, Communications, and Donnelly McDowell, Advertising ... Freshfields opening Silicon Valley office with seven founding partners, including Sarah Solum, from Davis Polk, leading office as managing partner; John Fisher from Sidley Austin as head-U.S. technology and life sciences mergers and acquisitions; Boris Feldman from Wilson Sonsini is head-U.S. technology practice; and Doru Gavril also from Wilson Sonsini works on shareholder litigation and government investigations, and clients have included technology and social media companies.
With Hogan Lovells under new CEO Miguel Zaldivar (see this section, Dec. 20), it's promoting as planned communications attorney Michele Farquhar to Washington office managing partner (see this section, April 9); law firm says now Ari Fitzgerald takes over from Farquhar as head, Communications practice group and Mark Brennan does likewise at Technology, Media and Telecoms sector group, which itself has Technology led by John Brockland and Telecoms led by Angus Coulter.
Federal Election Commissioner Caroline Hunter stepping down, effective July 3, joining legal team of Stand Together; FEC spokesperson confirms her departure would leave commissioners without a quorum, if there's no replacement by Saturday ... CyrusOne directors elect real estate executive Bruce Duncan president-CEO and board member, succeeding interim President-CEO Tesh Durvasula ... Iconectiv taps Michael O’Brien, ex-Syniverse, for chief product officer ... LegalShield hires Cameron Scott, ex-GoDaddy, as chief marketing officer, new post ... Global Cloud Xchange appoints Anja Blumert, ex-Millicom International Cellular, chief financial officer.
Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance names telecom industry executive Anita Dohler CEO-board member, taking over from Peter Meissner, retiring and will "remain active" as senior adviser, NGMN board ... U.S. Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent reportedly departing next month; White House doesn't comment ... Booz Allen adds cybersecurity experts Kevin Richards, ex-Marsh, as executive vice president, leading Strategic Cyber Readiness and Response teams, and Tony Sharp, ex-FedEx, as senior vice president, running Security Architecture and Engineering team.
Nicol Turner Lee moves up to director, Brookings Institution Center for Technology Innovation, writes Darrell West, who is succeeded by her and remains center senior fellow, Dillon chair in governance studies, and vice president-Brookings' Governance Studies program ... Fletcher Heald hires Kristen Corra, ex-Baker Donelson, as associate; she has worked on wireless and telecom infrastructure ... Perkins Coie taps from Davis Wright David Daggett as partner, Technology Transactions and Privacy practice ... Neil Fried, ex-Motion Picture Association, now is principal, DigitalFrontiers Advocacy, on whose behalf he just testified (see bottom of page 1 and 2006240048).