Perkins Coie adds from Gibson Dunn Alison Watkins as partner, Litigation and Privacy & Security practices ... Kansas Association of Broadcasters' Kent Cornish retiring as president-executive director, remaining as vice president; Allison Mazzei, ex-Pennington & Co., to lead KAB ... Technology and cybersecurity expert Preston Grisham joins APCO as director.
Hill+Knowlton Strategies appoints from McLarty Associates Philippe Maze-Sencier global chair-public affairs ... Zoom adds Velchamy Sankarlingam, ex-VMware, as president-engineering and product ... ImOn Communications promotes Jake Ryan to chief financial officer.
BSA|The Software Alliance announces Heidi Obermeyer, ex-CTIA, as manager-policy ... Aparna Patrie, ex-Senate Judiciary Committee, becomes Facebook public policy manager ... Belden promotes Roel Vestjens to president-CEO, succeeding John Stroup, who becomes executive chairman; also appoints Vestjens and Nancy Calderon, ex-KPMG, to board ... MagnaChip Semiconductor hires Young Soo Woo, ex-CoreeGroup, as chief financial officer ... ImOn Communications advances Jake Ryan to chief financial officer ... Bernie Colpitts, ex-GameStop, returns to ON Semiconductor as chief accounting officer and vice president-subsidiary Semiconductor Components Industries ... F5 promotes Tom Fountain to executive vice president-global services and chief strategy officer, succeeding Steve McMillan, becoming president-CEO of Teradata, effective June 8 ... Hearst moves Shawn Oswald back to KETV Omaha as president-general manager.
Blue Apron's Jason Hatcher, vice president-operations, and Greg Wysocki, vice president-procurement and supply chain, take over fulfillment and supply chain operations ... Nexstar promotes Chris Pruitt to vice president-general manager, broadcast and digital operations in Houston ... Senate confirms John Ratcliffe, 49-44, as director of national intelligence (see this section, May 20).
Davis Wright adds Chris Ford, from Ballard Spahr, as partner-financial services and technology ... Brookings Institution promotes Nicol Turner Lee to senior fellow, Center for Technology Innovation (see 2005190029) ... Denise Denson, ex-Viacom, joins Molten as chief operating officer ... Armando Nunez moving to adviser at ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group, as Dan Cohen becoming group president ... Open Systems acquires Born in the Cloud, with latter’s founder Paul Keely joining buyer as general manager, Born in the Cloud.
Libra Association appoints Robert Werner, ex-GRH Consulting, general counsel ... NFL moves Jeff Miller to executive vice president-communications, public affairs and policy ... LegalShield hires Arnold Blinn, ex-GoDaddy, as chief architect ... Grain Management names Ricardo Rodriguez, ex-Spirit MTA REIT, principal-investment team and Stephanie Phillipps, ex-Arnold & Porter, as senior adviser on board.
Public Knowledge hires Kathleen Burke, ex-Fayette Alliance, as policy counsel ... Ofcom advances Alison Marsden to director-content standards, licensing and enforcement; she also becomes a member of the content board ... SAIC announces Dee Dee Helfenstein, from Booz Allen, as executive vice president-chief strategic growth officer, new position ... Fusion appoints Brian Crotty, ex-Sungard Availability Services, CEO, succeeding interim CEO Kevin Brand, who remains as president-chief operating officer.
Export-Import Bank appoints David Trulio, detailed from DOD, counselor to the chairman and senior vice president, Program on China and Transformational Exports (see 2005140064) ... Jennifer Brandenburger, ex-Airbnb, rejoining Lyft, named director-public policy for community safety, new position ... Verizon taps James Mitchell, ex-FirstNet, as executive program manager-operations, public sector.
Alliance for Fair Trade with India expands to become Alliance for Trade Enforcement, with Brian Pomper continuing as executive director of new coalition ... HKW names Jeff Bistrong, ex-Harris Williams and with technology transaction expertise, as partner of the private equity firm ... Zoom Telephonics CEO Joe Wytanis steps down, continuing as adviser to board ... Equifax appoints Cecilia Mao, ex-Oracle, chief product officer, new position ... CommScope names Jeff White, from Here Technologies, chief commercial officer.
Ofcom Group Director-Competition and board member Jonathan Oxley stepping down end of June; David Clarkson continuing as acting competition group director ... NetApp appoints Cesar Cernuda, from Microsoft, as president, effective in July ... Mozilla adds Adam Seligman, from Salesforce, as chief operating officer ... AMC Networks names Jon Sichel, ex-Discovery, executive vice president-distribution sales and strategy, and Barbara Kalosieh, ex-GoNoodle, senior vice president-distribution ... Nutanix promotes Christian Alvarez to senior vice president-worldwide channels; he continues to lead channel sales-Americas until a new leader is appointed.