President Donald Trump names Kenneth Johnson, general manager-CEO of Co-Mo Electric Cooperative, as Rural Utilities Service administrator at the Department of Agriculture ... Vivid Seats online ticket marketplace hires Christopher Libertelli, ex-Netflix, as senior vice president-business and legal affairs ... 21st Century Fox's Fox Networks Group promotes Jeff Hughes to president, Digital Consumer Group ... National Venture Capital Association appoints from GE Ventures Stephanie Volk as vice president-development ... Raycom Media moves Dianne Wilson to vice president-human resources ... Digital Services Exchange IoT interoperability group begins; chair is Mike Mulica, ex-Synchronoss.
NTIA hires Anne Veigle, ex-Communications Daily, as director-Office of Public Affairs ... Arnold & Porter hires from Hogan Lovells Dori Hanswirth and Theresa House as partners, Intellectual Property Group, global Media & Entertainment practice ... Digital education firm 2U, Inc. hires Katie Race Brin, ex-FTC, as chief privacy officer ... Kroll expands job of Managing Director Benedetto Demonte as North America leader, Cyber Security and Investigations Practice ... Coriant hires Vikram Shanbhag, ex-Teya Ventures, as managing director-Asia Pacific south ... President Donald Trump nominates Charles Cook, C. Cook Advisory Services, to be chief financial officer, Department of Homeland Security ... New to Alliance for Women in Media Foundation national board for 2018: Joyce Fitch, Beasley Broadcast Group, and Diane Schwartz, Access Intelligence.
FCC Disability Advisory Committee outgoing designated federal officer Elaine Gardner (see 1802010019 and 1802010044) a Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Disability Rights Office attorney-adviser, retires from the commission March 2, and leaves the committee Feb. 28, an agency spokesman says ... Kurtin law firm hires antitrust and legal expert David Olasov, ex-Olasov firm, as of counsel; his clients have included media service companies ... Sony promotes Chief Financial Officer Kenichiro Yoshida to president-CEO, effective April 1, succeeding Kazuo Hirai, who will become chairman.
Wilkinson Barker hires as senior counsels Ronald Siegel, Richard Helmick and Ellen Edmundson, working on broadcast regulation and ex-Cohn and Marks, ending operations ... Mintz Levin hires new technology/wireless law expert Laura Stefani as of counsel, Communications practice, which also adds Elana Reman Safner from K&L Gates as associate, working on cable and broadband ... Davis Polk adds intellectual property litigator who has represented streaming-video and cable companies Ashok Ramani from Keker & Van Nest as partner, Litigation Department.
Spectrum Co ATSC 3.0 spectrum consortium founded by Sinclair and Nexstar hires John Hane, ex-Pillsbury Winthrop, as president ... FCC Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force Chief of Staff Thom Parisi leaving agency to return to private sector ... Moses & Singer expands Intellectual Property practice, naming as partners Toby Butterfield from Frankfurt Kurnit and Gregory Shatan from Bortstein Legal Group ... CTA promotes Jean Foster to senior vice president-marketing and communications, new post ... Ribbon Communications moves Tony Scarfo to executive vice president-products and research and development; John McCready, who had that job and was chief strategy officer, remains in latter post; Scarfo left predecessor firm Sonus in 2016 and was doing consulting.
WOW hires David Brunick, ex-Adelphia Communications, as chief human resources officer ... Sinclair hires TV executive who most recently founded a startup William Ballard as general manager, WPDE-TV Florence, South Carolina, and overseeing the company providing services to WWMB Florence ... National Association of Manufacturers adds lawyers to Manufacturers’ Center for Legal Action: Peter Tolsdorf hired as vice president-litigation and deputy general counsel, succeeding Quentin Riegel, retiring; and Lindsey de la Torre joins as executive director, Manufacturers’ Accountability Project and special counsel, MCLA.
Meredith board elects Chairman-CEO Steve Lacy executive chairman and elects Chief Operating Officer-President Tom Harty president-CEO, effective Feb. 1 ... Dentons adds entertainment and sports commercial litigator from Greenberg Traurig Mark Trigg as partner, Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice ... Cox Enterprises promotes Paul Scolese to vice president-government affairs and Andre Reese to vice president-information systems operations ... Communications Workers of America promotes Online Communications Director Beth Allen to CWA communications director, succeeding Candice Johnson, retiring effective Feb. 1.
Comcast hires from Liberty Global's Virgin Media Dana Strong as president-consumer services ... Equinix says CEO-board member Steve Smith resigns "after exercising poor judgment with respect to an employee matter," and board, accepting his resignation, names Executive Chairman Peter Van Camp interim CEO; he previously was CEO ... President Donald Trump is naming Suzette Kuhlow Kent, EY, administrator, Office of Electronic Government, Office of Management and Budget.
With NAB Executive Vice President John David moving from head, Radio Department, to senior adviser to the association (see 1801220016), the group's Steve Newberry adds oversight of that department; Newberry was hired a few months ago as executive vice president-strategic planning/special projects (see 1710130036); Newberry's duties also include overseeing new NAB building project; and in related news this week, a spokesman confirms the group agreed to sell its building for $31.6 million and will stay at 1771 N St. NW and rent it from Stream Realty until it moves, targeted for fall 2019, into its new building at 1 M St. SE.
FCC re-adds Sarah Whitesell, ex-Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women, as again deputy chief, Media Bureau ... NewTV hires Meg Whitman, leaving Hewlett Packard Enterprise (see 1711220003), as CEO, effective March 1; it was founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, named chairman ... Univision names Chief Marketing Officer Jessica Rodríguez to also be president-chief operating officer, UCI Networks, new post ... Lockheed Martin moves to vice presidents Bill Phelps promoted for external communications, succeeding Nettie Johnson, retiring; and Adam Sohn, ex-Amazon, hired, for Lockheed Martin Space Communications, succeeding Andrea Greenan, recently named vice president-internal communications.