Amy Bowen, ex-Holland & Knight, starts Uplink Legal real estate law firm for wireless/telecom issues, smart buildings/cities and IoT ... Yelp Director-Public Policy Laurent Crenshaw leaving the company; Crenshaw tells us Eaze has hired him as a senior director, which the cannabis technology company confirms ... Univision Communications promotes Peter Lori to chief financial officer, succeeding Frank Lopez-Balboa, leaving to pursue other opportunities; the broadcaster says "due to prevailing market conditions, it has requested the withdrawal" of its SEC S-1 filing for an initial public offering.
CenturyLink CEO Glen Post retires effective May 23, when annual meeting is held, rather than Jan. 1, 2019, as was planned; President-Chief Operating Officer Jeff Storey to move up to CEO-president; Post said while he "will continue to serve the company as a board member, I will not assume the role of chairman of the board in order to ensure there is clarity that Jeff will be CenturyLink's new leader"; chairman will remain Harvey Perry; director Bruce Hanks is named lead independent director ... Gogo names director Oakleigh Thorne president-CEO, succeeding Michael Small, leaving board; Thorne steps down as CEO of Thorndale Farm, family office of the Thorne family, which is Gogo's top shareholder and he remains on Gogo's board.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai promotes Patrick Webre to chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, where he had been acting chief ... Disney moves James Pitaro to president-ESPN and co-chair, Disney Media Networks, succeeding John Skipper, who previously said he was leaving (see this section of this publication's Dec. 19 issue) ... Xtera board promotes Keith Henderson to CEO, succeeded by Leigh Frame, ex-Alcatel Submarine Networks, as chief operating officer ... Infoblox taps Hoke Horne, ex-Digital River, as chief financial officer.
Kent Bressie, who remains at Harris Wiltshire, named International Cable Law Adviser for the International Cable Protection Committee ... Meredith names Gary Brown, ex-Napoli Management Group, vice president-news & marketing, Meredith Local Media Group, effective March 19 ... Sinclair Broadcast promotions: Justin Bray to vice president-treasurer; David Bochenek to senior vice president-chief accounting officer & corporate controller ... Raycom Media promotes Mark Mendenhall to vice president-general manager, WECT Wilmington, North Carolina ... David Porter to step down as executive director of The Walter Kaitz Foundation, effective April 13; his deputy, Michelle Ray, will be interim executive director ... World Wrestling Entertainment promotes Brian Flinn to chief marketing & communications officer ... Fletcher, Heald promotes Sekoia Rogers to associate in CommLaw Group. ATIS names Carroll Gray-Preston, ex-Genband, principal technologist ... Wikimedia Foundation names Tony Sebro, ex-Software Freedom Conservancy, deputy general counsel.
Liberty Interactive Corp., changing name to Qurate Retail Group, advances QVC CEO Mike George to president-CEO, succeeding Greg Maffei, named chairman; new name is effective on split off of GCI Liberty, which includes the acquired General Communication Inc. ... Returning to DLA Piper after departing in 2011 to become founding partners of Feinberg Day: Clayton Thompson and Jake Zolotorev join Intellectual Property and Technology practice as partners ... Fletcher Heald promotes Sekoia Rogers to associate ... Boeing promotes Tim Keating to executive vice president-government operations.
ZwillGen moves up privacy, security and advertising and FTC experts Melissa Maalouf and Kandi Parsons to shareholders; Jeff Landis, defending companies in privacy class actions, to chair, litigation team; and Mason Weisz, working on data collection, marketing, data sharing, computer crime, privacy and internet law, to leader, international practice; and law firm hires Michelle Anderson, ex-DLA Piper, as attorney; she will work on international and domestic privacy issues ... Nvidia hires from TechFreedom Austin Carson as senior manager-government relations, effective March 5.
Lerman Senter moved up broadcast/MVPD lawyer Paul Cicelski to a member, effective Jan. 1 ... Mintz Levin adds technology lawyers from Morgan Lewis William Perkins and Dinesh Melwani as members, Corporate & Securities Section, helping lead technology initiative ... Sinclair promotes Scott Livingston to senior vice president-news ... CenturyLink appoints Matt Gutierrez, ex-Level 3, which the company bought (see 1802150015), as senior managing director-Asia-Pacific.
Center for Democracy & Technology hires from New America's Open Technology Institute Liz Woolery as senior policy analyst-free expression ... Society of Professional Journalists hires Alison Bethel McKenzie, ex-International Press Institute, as executive director, its first African-American head, effective March 19, succeeding Joe Skeel, previously hired by Indiana State Bar Association (see 1708100025) ... Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Elaine Duke retires, effective in April ... Western Digital hires Lori Sundberg, most recently at Jacobs, as chief human resources officer, succeeding Jackie DeMaria, retiring ... Mobile Labs President Dan McFall adds title of CEO.
Ex-NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling hired by Internet Society as executive director, Collaborative Governance Project ... NAB adds April Carty-Sipp, ex-Disney, as senior vice president-TV, effective March 1 ... Entercom moves Becky Domyan to senior vice president-market manager, St. Louis, effective March 1; broadcaster is buying stations there from Emmis (see 1802230020) ... Disney's Freeform moves up to vice presidents Deena Beach for marketing strategy and Dalia Ganz for social media, digital marketing & synergy.
Georgia Public Service Commission unanimously elects Commissioner Lauren “Bubba” McDonald as chair for a two-year term, succeeding Commissioner Stan Wise, resigned from the commission (see 1802210022), succeeded by Tricia Pridemore, tech and workforce development expert, added to the PSC after Gov. Nathan Deal (R) appointed her to finish Wise's term through Dec. 31 ... WTA promotes in Washington office Derrick Owens to senior vice president-government and industry affairs and Eric Keber to succeed him vice president-government affairs.