House Judiciary Antitrust Chairman David Cicilline, D-R.I., names Megan Garcia, from New America, deputy chief of staff and legislative director ... BakerHostetler hires Jeewon Kim Serrato, ex-Norton Rose, as partner to co-lead new digital transformation and data economy team with partners Janine Anthony Bowen and Chad Rutkowski ... George Mason University Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property appoints Joshua Kresh, ex-DLA Piper, deputy director ... Colorado Statewide Internet Portal Authority names Chief Operating Officer Catherine Kunst acting executive director effective June 1; Jack Arrowsmith retiring ... Crisis Text Line taps Ben Kolin, ex-Uber, as chief technology officer.
New America’s Open Technology Institute hires Christine Bannan, ex-Electronic Privacy Information Center, as policy counsel, and promotes Chhaya Kapadia to chief of staff and Claire Park to program associate ... Maine Public Utilities Commission announces David Braley, from Division of Environmental and Community Health, to director-Telephone and Water Division.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announces retirement of Pam Yingling, lead industry analyst, Public Safety Bureau licensing branch in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ... Calfee Strategic Solutions names Timothy Day, ex-U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as principal, focused on federal and state lobbying ... Lewis Brisbois hires Brian Craig, ex-TLT, as partner-data privacy and cybersecurity.
Electronic Privacy Information Center taps General Counsel Alan Butler as interim executive director following Executive Director Marc Rotenberg’s departure ... Davis Wright taps Spencer Persson, ex-Norton Rose, as partner-privacy and security ... PG&E CEO-President Bill Johnson retiring and leaving board June 30, with board member Bill Smith, ex-AT&T, becoming interim CEO; Andrew Vesey, CEO and president-subsidiary Pacific Gas and Electric Company, remains in his role.
International Center for Law & Economics hires Ian Adams, ex-TechFreedom, for executive director, and Sam Bowman, ex-Fingleton Associates, is director-competition policy ... Next Century Cities appoints Brittany-Rae Gregory, ex-office of Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., communications director; and Ryan Johnston, ex-Computer and Communications Industry Association, policy counsel; and moves Lukas Pietrzak to policy associate ... DOD Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Essye Miller retiring effective June 30, John Sherman advancing to position ... NATE using Gemma Frock, GKF Consulting Services, to implement telecom industry workforce plan.
Intellectual property lawyers Hissan Anis, Justin Poplin and Anna Quinn, all ex-Lathrop GPM, found Avant Law Group as principals ... Madison Square Garden Entertainment completes spinoff of Madison Square Garden Sports with Mark FitzPatrick, ex-WeWork and ex-Time Warner Cable, executive vice president-chief financial officer; Victoria Mink remains at MSG Sports in same jobs as FitzPatrick ... Wayfair moves interim Chief Technology Officer Jim Miller to permanent post ... BCM One acquires nexVortex with latter’s Lita Miller and Mike Nowak to lead, respectively, Herndon, Virginia, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, offices.
Zoom and Luta Security join forces on bug bounty program headed by the latter’s Katie Moussouris ... Piper Sandler promotes Steven Schmidt to head-technology investment banking ... Niantic hires Megan Quinn, ex-Spark, as chief operating officer ... LiveRamp appoints Jason White, ex-ViacomCBS, senior vice president and head-publishers ... Lincoln Network inaugural policy hackers “helping bridge the gap between innovators and policymakers”: Pujaa Rajan, Node; Sarmad Qadri, ex-Microsoft; Riva-Melissa Tez, Intel; artificial intelligence researcher Genevieve Fried; aerospace engineer Keenan Johnson; Matt Parlmer, Utility; Luke Metro, Kitty Hawk; Caroline McCarthy, true[X]; Mike Wacker, ex-Microsoft; and tech entrepreneur Luis Navia ... Jesse Cohn, Elliott Management, stepping down from Citrix board ... Manufacturer’s Edge elects Shelli Brunswick, Space Foundation, to board ... Menlo Security adds Joe Sexton, ex-AppDynamics, to board.
Bona Law taps Jon Cieslak, ex-Cooley, as partner-antitrust ... Ancestry names Ronald Park, from Roche Pharmaceuticals, executive vice president-health and DNA ... Shutterfly appoints Vivian Liu, ex-Lexmark, senior vice president-chief financial officer ... Disney elects CEO Bob Chapek to board ... Marketron names Drew Horowitz, Gemini Strategies & Advisories, to board ... MobileIron enters cooperation agreement with Altai Capital Management with latter’s President-Chief Investment Officer Rishi Bajaj joining MobileIron board.
Jim Clark, ex-Netscape, and TJ Jermoluk, ex-At Home, launch Beyond Identity platform for online identity ... Jace Kowalzyk, ex-Union Square Advisors, returns to Piper Sandler, now is managing director-IT, networking, cloud and infrastructure software sectors ... Virtru taps Renaud Perrier, ex-Google, as senior vice president-international business development and operations ... Sysdig promotes Omer Azaria to vice president-engineering, for secure, and hires Saro Subbiah, from Quid, as vice president-engineering and technology, for monitor and platform ... MediaCo New York Radio hires Ron deCastro, ex-Townsquare, as market president.
Comcast appoints Candy Lawson, ex-21st Century Fox, senior vice president-chief compliance officer-senior deputy general counsel ... Pete Villano, ex-House Armed Services Committee, becomes Microsoft Azure director-government affairs ... Hunton Andrews taps Kevin Hahm, ex-FTC, as partner-competition and consumer protection.