Stan Wise steps down from Georgia Public Service Commission, where he was chairman since Jan. 1, 2017; Gov. Nathan Deal (R) will appoint a successor, who must run for election in November for a full six-year term ... Entercom hires Jim McCloud, ex-MLB, as executive vice president-national business development, new post ... Arris advances Germán Iaryczower to senior vice president-general manager, DOCSIS CPE business; Marcos Takanohashi succeeds him as senior vice president-sales, Caribbean and Latin America.
Sigfox IoT connectivity provider taps Christian Olivier, ex-Aversan, as president-Sigfox USA ... Sinclair moves Vice President Dave Schwartz to newly created vice president-sales operations ... FireEye moves up Craig Mueller to vice president-federal sales ... Carbon Black adds Tom Kellermann, ex-Strategic Cyber Ventures, as chief cybersecurity officer ... LBI Media appoints Nick Valls, ex-MundoMax, general manager of its recently acquired WGEN-TV Key West, Florida.
Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution promotes Greg Drebin to executive vice president-worldwide marketing ... U.S. Council for International Business picks Dina Kallay, Ericsson, as chair of its Competition Committee ... Senate confirmed John Demers as assistant attorney general-National Security Division.
Comcast's NBCUniversal promotes NBC's Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta to co-presidents, scripted programming, NBC Entertainment ... With Shaw Communications Chief Financial Officer Vito Culmone leaving, effective May 4, Executive Vice President Trevor English promoted to also become chief financial and corporate development officer ... CenturyLink expands responsibilities on strategic government executive leadership team that sells products to the federal government and some others: team reports to David Young, named regional vice president-strategic government; Scott Barnett named vice president-DOD sales; Seana Gilliland named vice president-program management office.
Center for Democracy & Technology adds Maurice Turner, ex-TechCongress congressional fellow on Republican staff of Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, as senior technologist, Election Security and Privacy Project ... Freshfields hires Eric Mahr, ex-DOJ Antitrust Division, as partner, antitrust practice, including transaction litigation ... Haug Partners taps Georg Reitboeck, ex-Kenyon & Kenyon, as IP litigation partner.
CBS names Mike Dean, ex-Disney ABC TV Group, to newly created position of senior vice president-advanced advertising and automation ... Raycom Media gives Scott Dempsey additional duty of regional group vice president, overseeing WIS Columbia, South Carolina, and in Georgia, WTOC Savannah and WFXG in Augusta; He remains vice president-general manager, WBTV Charlotte, North Carolina ... EBay names Jan Pedersen, ex-Twitter, vice president and chief scientist-artificial intelligence.
House Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., promotes Mike Bloomquist to staff director, succeeding Ray Baum, deceased (see 1802090018) ... SES board taps SES Networks CEO Steve Collar as president-CEO of the company, succeeding Karim Michel Sabbagh, leaving effective April 5 to spend time with family and pursue new interests, and also names recent Chief Financial Officer Andrew Browne of its O3b Networks as company's CFO, succeeding Padraig McCarthy, retiring during 2018 and stepping down from current job also on April 5 ... Common Cause hires Yosef Getachew, ex-Public Knowledge, as director-Media and Democracy Program, working with ex-Special Adviser Michael Copps.
Board of National Geographic Partners joint venture of 21st Century Fox and National Geographic Society names Gary Knell, president-CEO of the society, to succeed Declan Moore as CEO, National Geographic Partners, effective March 1; also effective March 1, the society's Michael Ulica named interim president-CEO ... National Retail Federation hires from George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security Christian Beckner to head its cybersecurity program ... National Taxpayers Union hires Kevin Glass, ex-Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, as vice president-communications and outreach.
Microsoft hires Allison Halataei from House Ways and Means Committee to U.S. government affairs team as director-congressional affairs, focusing on House Republicans, and promotes John Sampson in government affairs office to lead team focused on Azure cloud business ... Akin Gump hires Mark Aitken, ex-Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, as senior policy adviser-communications practice, working on autonomous vehicle issues ... Raycom Media promotes Ellenann Yelverton to vice president-general counsel, succeeding Rebecca Bryan, retired at the end of 2017 ... Windstream promotes Drew Smith to senior vice president-financial planning and assistant treasurer.
Alphabet hires for Google Fiber/Webpass Dinni Jain, ex-Time Warner Cable, as CEO, Access ... Sam Black detailed to Senate Commerce Committee minority staff from Office of Management and Budget and working now with Space Subcommittee staff; past employers include Satellite Industry Association ... Wiley Rein re-adds Federal Election Commissioner Lee Goodman, named partner and member, Election Law & Government Ethics Practice, including working on free speech, effective Feb. 20; Goodman's last day at FEC is Feb. 16, spokeswomen for the agency and the law firm tell us ... AT&T moves Judy Dobies to director-general manager-national business for the Mid-Atlantic region ... WOW hires Nancy McGee, ex-Starz Entertainment, as chief marketing and sales officer.