Reed Smith hires from Arent Fox Sarah Bruno as partner-global intellectual property, tech and data, and Casey Perrino as associate-data privacy and security counseling ... Subject Matter adds Bill Ghent, ex-The Lugar-Hellmann Group, to government relations team, including tech focus ... K2 Intelligence names former Rep. Dan Donovan, R-N.Y., senior adviser.
WarnerMedia appoints Steve Vest, ex-Venable, senior adviser-government relations ... Randy Clarke, ex-FCC, hired by CenturyLink as vice president-federal regulatory affairs ... Fish & Richardson adds Jenifer deWolf Paine, ex-Microsoft, as of counsel-trademark and copyright ... Thompson Hine adds Timothy Goodman, partner-transportation, and William Godfrey, director-mobility, automation and safety, both ex-Transportation Department and working on tech issues ... TechNet names Tyler Diers, ex-Illinois Chamber of Commerce, executive director-Illinois and Midwest.
National Association of State 911 Administrators hired Harriet Rennie-Brown, from state of Michigan, as executive director, to be effective Monday, succeeding Evelyn Bailey, retiring ... CommScope promotes Chris Collura to vice president-federal sales ... Fox expands role of Executive Vice President-Associate General Counsel Elizabeth Casey as senior member-litigation and intellectual property groups.
Baker Botts hires as partners from Taylor & Patchen Cheryl Cauley, intellectual property litigation, and Jonathan Patchen, technology litigation ... Neal Gerber names Timothy Nitsch, ex-Freeborn & Peters, partner-intellectual property, with expertise including cellular and telecom plus cellular charging ... Booz Allen taps Jerry Bessette, ex-Ankura Consulting, as senior vice president-commercial cyber incident response team.
WarnerMedia promotes Andrew Reinsdorf to senior vice president-government relations ... USTelecom advances Lorna Johnson to chief financial officer ... Society of Professional Journalists announces John Shertzer, ex-Indianapolis Mayor’s Youth Leadership Council, is executive director, SPJ and SPJ Foundation ... Enterprise Wireless Alliance hires consultant John Wehmann to facilitate administration of 900 MHz incumbent transition services.
With Nielsen spinning off global connect business, creating two publicly traded companies, Global Media and Global Connect, James Attwood resumes Nielsen chairman role and Nielsen CEO David Kenny becomes CEO-Global Media ... Dish Network, which reported Q3 results (see 1911070007) and aims to buy assets from T-Mobile/Sprint (see 1911070066), names executive vice presidents Marc Rouanne, ex-Mobile Networks, also chief network officer, and Stephen Bye, ex-Connectivity Wireless, also chief commercial officer.
FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks appoints Austin Bonner, ex-Harris Wiltshire, legal adviser-wireline and public safety issues ... Ofcom moves Jonathan Oxley to interim chief executive, replacing Sharon White, who leaves that interim post month’s end ... BBB National Programs hires Eric Reicin, from MorganFranklin, as president-CEO ... IAB taps Rick Berger, ex-Conversant, for vice president-member engagement.
Shearman & Sterling names John Beahn, ex-DLA Piper, partner-Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and telecom transactions ... BlackBerry says President-Chief Operating Officer Bryan Palma stepping down “to pursue other opportunities” ... SiriusXM taps Alex Luke, ex-Amazon, as senior vice president-digital content, SiriusXM and Pandora, new position ... BAE Systems announces Caitlin Hayden, ex-Aerospace Industries Association, as senior vice president-communications.
Computer & Communications Industry Association hires Vann Bentley, ex-Amazon, as policy counsel-artificial intelligence and telecommunications, Washington office, and Kayvan Hazemi-Jebelli, ex-Fried Frank, as competition and regulatory counsel, Brussels.
Kevin Goldberg, ex-Fletcher Heald, becomes Digital Media Association vice president-legal ... Accenture advances John Walsh to group chief executive-communications, media and technology, succeeding Omar Abbosh, who remains until Feb. 29.