Communications Personals
Open Society Foundations says it gave a leadership in government fellowship, a new initiative, to eight people including Gigi Sohn, counselor to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler; she will use it for "multi-platform storytelling techniques to help demonstrate how public policy can improve access to communications networks, new technology, and media for communities too often left behind in the digital age"; the fellowship is January 2017-January 2018; Sohn leaves the commission, effective by year's end, an agency spokesman told us ... Retiring from AMC Networks is Ellen Kroner, executive vice president-chief communications officer, effective at year's end, succeeded by Georgia Juvelis and Jim Maiella, both promoted to senior vice presidents/co-heads of corporate communications starting in 2017 ... Salem Media Group promotes Jeff Mitchell to general manager, stations in Dallas.
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At U.S. Chamber of Commerce, it says, Suzanne Clark was promoted to senior executive vice president and will lead Government Affairs Division, effective in January; expanded government affairs team adds Neil Bradley, ex-aide to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., hired as senior vice president-chief policy officer, new position; American Action Forum President Douglas Holtz-Eakin to advise the chamber as senior policy counselor; organization adds Thomas Sullivan, ex-Small Business Administration, as vice president-small business policy, and executive director, Small and Mid-Market Business councils; retiring are Executive Vice President-Government Affairs Bruce Josten, while Sullivan succeeds Giovanni Coratolo, who retired earlier this year.
Joining Perkins Coie is Andrew McBride, ex-Wiley Rein, as partner, Commercial Litigation practice ... Case Foundation adds Sam Heitner, public affairs executive, as senior vice president-communications and marketing ... Alcatel hires Wayne White, ex-Kobo, as vice president-sales, North America ... HackerOne appoints Justin Calmus, ex-Zenefits, as vice president-hacker success ... Petra Industries advances Robin Waters to vice president-finance ... Among those receiving Presidential Medal of Freedom Nov. 22 from President Barack Obama will be Newt Minow, ex-FCC chairman, and Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, and wife Melinda Gates.
Optical Internetworking Forum says elections include: Jonathan Sadler, Coriant, and Nathan Tracy, TE Connectivity, to board for two-year terms, with Tracy vice president-marketing; Tom Issenhuth, Microsoft, named vice president; Klaus-Holger Otto, Nokia, to Technical Committee chairman; Ed Frlan, Semtech, as Technical Committee vice chairman; and Jeffery Maki, Juniper Networks, for Physical Layer User Group Working Group chairman ... Lobbyist registrations: IT firm Gigamon, Pillsbury Winthrop and Orlie Yaniv Strategies, both effective Oct. 1 ... Distributed data protection firm Ionic Security, Commonwealth Strategic Partners, effective Nov. 1.