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President-elect Donald Trump names Reed Cordish, who has directed agency "beachhead" teams, as assistant to the president-intragovernmental and technology initiatives ... Buchanan & Edwards, technology firm with government customers, hires Dennis Kelly, ex-Iomaxis, as president-CEO ... Thumbtack names Laszlo Bock, ex-Google, as strategic adviser ... Hortonworks appointed Raj Verma, ex-Tibco Software, president-chief operating officer ... Comcast hires Kai Bond, ex-Samsung Accelerator, as principal to lead Comcast Ventures Catalyst Fund ... Joining Baidu is Qi Lu, ex-Microsoft, as group president-chief operating officer.
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One Touch Brands names Sean Erickson, ex-Sitel & Groupe Acticall, president-CEO ... As Börje Ekholm became Ericsson president-CEO Monday (see this section of the Oct. 27 issue of this publication), the company said that Jan Frykhammar, who did those jobs on a temporary basis, also now is executive vice president-adviser to the CEO; remaining in their jobs are Magnus Mandersson, executive vice president-adviser to the CEO, and acting Chief Financial Officer Carl Mellander ... Sonos founder John MacFarlane relinquishes CEO post to President Patrick Spence, but will remain a Sonos employee, focusing on expanding the company’s commitment to science, technology, engineering and math education and working within the music and tech industries to help create a startup-friendly “ecosystem,” he said in a Monday blog post.
Jaunt, cinematic virtual reality firm, hires Fabrice Cantou, ex-Dailymotion, as chief financial officer ... Joining Avant: Brendan Taylor, ex-Kroll's CVM Solutions, as chief financial officer ... Corning moves Amit Bansal to managing director for its operations in India ... New to Sysorex: Soumya Das, ex-Identiv, is chief marketing officer ... GumGum announces Ryan Mosher, ex-Nielsen Sports, as executive director of new division GumGum Sports ... LegalShield hires Emily Rose, ex-MetLife, as vice president-broker and partnership sales ... Signifyd, e-commerce fraud protection provider, hires Chendong Zou, ex-Rocket Fuel, as vice president-engineering.
President Barack Obama designated International Trade Commissioner Rhonda Schnare Schmidtlein, a Democrat, as chairwoman, term ending June 16, 2018 ... WebMD board names Ian Banwell, Aberdeen Enterprises, a director, filling vacancy created when Jerome Keller resigned ... Poynter Institute Vice President Kelly McBride added to Poynter board ... PayPal adds to board Belinda Johnson, Airbnb ... IRobot adds Elisha Finney, Varian Medical Systems, to its board.
Lobbyist registrations: Cinemoi, Hope Beckham, effective Nov. 1 ... CollegeNet, Leschi Group, effective Dec. 1 ... Newsmax Media, Hope Beckham, effective July 1 ... SAP America, CGCN Group, effective Dec. 1 ... Siemens Corp., on issues including the IoT, Alpine Group, effective Oct. 1 ... The Task Force on American Innovation, Corley Consulting, effective Nov. 1 ... Toyota Motor North America, Miller & Chevalier, effective Nov. 30 ... Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies, Mee Soon Langohr, effective Dec. 12 ... Cybersecurity firm Cybric, Public Sphere, effective Jan. 2.