Eve Konstan, ex-WarnerMedia Entertainment, joins Spotify as general counsel ... Facebook hires Alex Burgos, ex-TechNet, as director-policy communications ... Charles River Associates names Justin Lenzo vice president-antitrust and competition economics ... Rachelle Chong resigns from Anterix board; becomes senior adviser.
FCC chairman's Press Secretary Tina Pelkey leaves for Blue Origin, where she's named senior manager-government affairs communication ... Other FCC Office of Media Relations changes: new deputy director-communications is Anne Veigle, from NTIA; Will Wiquist advances to associate director-communications and policy adviser and Katie Gorscak to senior communications adviser.
ViacomCBS hires Martha Heller, from Altice USA, as vice president-government relations and regulatory counsel ... Alliance for Automotive Innovation adds Wade Newton, ex-Auto Innovators, as vice president-communications ... Charles River Associates announces Parker Normann, ex-Edgeworth Economics, as senior consultant-antitrust and competition economics ... DoubleVerify appoints Zachary Hecht, from Tech:NYC, senior policy manager.
NTCA moves up Jill Canfield to general counsel … ICANN appoints Merike Kao, Double Shot Security, to coordinate new DNS Security Facilitation Initiative Technical Study Group … Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and Leadership Conference Education Fund promote LaShawn Warren to executive vice president-government affairs … Cox Media Group says President-CEO Kim Guthrie leaving company; Executive Chairman Steve Pruett becomes interim CEO.
Summit Ridge Group taps Bill Redpath, ex-BIA Advisory Services, as managing director ... Zoom taps Josh Kallmer, from Information Technology Industry Council, as head-global public policy and government relations; adds H.R. McMaster, ex-national security adviser, to board ... Bob Gold & Associates establishes bankruptcy and litigation communications practice, led by Gold and Paul Jacobson, from SilversJacobson ... Libra Association appoints Stuart Levey, from HSBC, as first CEO, effective this summer.
NAB's Dennis Wharton, executive vice president-communications, retiring effective July 1, continuing as senior adviser; Executive Vice President-Communications Michelle Lehman becoming EVP-public affairs as association combines communications and marketing departments into new public affairs department; Senior Vice President-Communications Ann Marie Cumming becoming primary spokesperson ... Newly formed Open RAN Policy Coalition (see 2005050030) names Diane Rinaldo, ex-NTIA, executive director.
Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy names Hillary Brill, Georgetown University, interim executive director, and Jennifer Sturiale, from Harvard Law School, program director for tech law and policy academic programs ... GuidePost Strategies adds Zack Roday, ex-House Commerce Committee (see this section, May 4) as senior adviser ... Amazon Web Services Vice President-Distinguished Engineer Tim Bray resigns, citing “dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers”; company declined to comment ... Strategy Analytics moves Edouard Bouffenie to senior analyst-media and intelligent home practice.
Tiffany Haverly, ex-PhRMA, becomes communications director, House Commerce Committee, succeeding Zack Roday, departing for position in “public affairs/strategic consulting/media space” ... Intelligent Waves appoints Tony Crescenzo, ex-IntelliDyne, president.
Perkins Coie promotes patent lawyer Jose Villarreal to managing partner, Austin office ... Greg Guice, McGuireWoods Consulting, becomes also executive director-new App Coalition ... Recording Academy names Valeisha Butterfield Jones, ex-Google, its first chief diversity and inclusion officer ... Mechanical Licensing Collective appoints Ellen Truley chief marketing officer; Leigh McCorkle, ex-BMI, chief people officer; Dae Bogan, from UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, head-third-party partnerships; Serona Elton, University of Miami’s Frost School of Music; and Lindsey Major, ex-Fairygodboss, head-customer experience.
Weil Gotshal announces Michael Moiseyev, FTC, as partner-antitrust, competition ... Mercury names Adam Bramwell, ex-office of Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Del., managing director ... Ry Marcattilio-McCracken, ex-Oklahoma State University, joins Institute for Local Self-Reliance as senior researcher, Community Broadband Networks ... Public Media Group of Southern California appoints Dan Ferguson, ex-AT&T, senior vice president-marketing and communications.