Communications Personals
DLA Piper hires from Wiley Rein Michael Senkowski and Nancy Victory; Senkowski previously was chairman of Wiley's telecom group and Victory was chairwoman of the wireless group; Wiley also said another Wiley lawyer and two engineering advisers will leave, though DLA Piper said it didn't hire them ... Munger, Tolles announced Donald Verrilli, ex-solicitor general, is opening its Washington, D.C., office, to be joined by litigator Michael DeSanctis and Chad Golder, ex-deputy associate attorney general ... Raycom Media elevates Scott Thomas to vice president-general manager, KFVS-TV Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and WQWQ-LP Paducah, Kentucky, succeeding Dave Thomason, who moved in those jobs to the Raycom's WAFF Huntsville, Alabama.
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Ford Motor appoints Raj Rao, ex-3M, as CEO, Ford Smart Mobility ... Comtech said Chairman Fred Kornberg resumes his job of CEO-president, succeeding Stanton Sloane, departing the company and resigning from board; Michael Galletti, ex-Northrop Grumman, named chief operating officer, new post; and Richard Burt, senior vice president, Comtech/president, Comtech Systems also now leads legacy command and control technology group of the acquired TeleCommunication Systems, and Comtech’s legacy mobile data communications group ... Time Warner moves Jessica Holscott to lead Investor Relations group, succeeding Mike Kopelman, joining the company's Home Box Office as senior vice president-finance/strategic planning.
Weather Co. hires as vice presidents Jana Friedman, ex-Twitter, for East Coast ad sales, and Tom Kersten, ex-Wanderful, partner solutions ... Copyright Office names Emma Raviv, an associate at Kirkland & Ellis, working for internet, technology and other companies, a fellow for the 2016-18 Ringer Copyright Honors Program ... Newly formed Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society individual members include: Ralf Herbrich, Amazon; Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind, interim co-chairman; Greg Corrado, Google; Yann LeCun, Facebook; Francesca Rossi, IBM; and Eric Horvitz, Microsoft, interim co-chairman ... Dialog Semiconductor appoints to board Mary Chan, ex-AT&T, Dell and others, effective Dec. 1 ... Martin Roesch, Cisco’s Security Business Group, joins ThreatQuotient board.