Communications Personals
FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Associate Chief Bruce Romano joins Wiley Rein as consulting counsel ... Disney and Pixar Animation Studios President Ed Catmull retires, effective year-end, when Pixar President Jim Morris and Disney Animation Studios President Andrew Millstein report to Disney Studios President Alan Bergman; Catmull won't be replaced ... New York Public Radio names Depelsha McGruder, ex-Viacom, chief operating officer.
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Teledyne moves Chairman-CEO Robert Mehrabian to executive chairman, effective Jan. 1, when President-Chief Operating Officer Al Pichelli becomes president-CEO; in other promotions, Jason VanWees moves to executive vice president; and Stephen Blackwood to senior vice president-treasurer ... Snap appoints from Amazon Jeremi Gorman as chief business officer.
National CineMedia names chief digital officer Rick Butler, who advised the company as president, Playa Vista Consulting ... WTA elects board including new members Glenn Lovelace, Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative, and Jamey Wigley, Central Texas Telephone Cooperative ... Sierra Wireless appoints Joy Chik, Microsoft, to board.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names to renewed Native Nations Communications Task Force, as Tribal Task Force members: Susie Allen, Confederated Tribes of Colville Reservation; Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah); Michael Conners, St. Regis Mohawk Tribe; Joe Garcia, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo; Frankie Hargis, Cherokee Nation; Jefferson Keel, Chickasaw Nation; Andy Teuber, Tangela Native Village; Joey Whitman, Gila River Indian Community; Joelynn Ashley, Navajo Nation; Bill Bryant, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community; Crystal Hottowe, Makah Tribe; Kristan Johnson, Tohono O’odham Nation; Donald Long Knife, Fort Belknap Indian Community; Robert Lucas, Tanana Chiefs Conference; Peter McCaslin, Kenaitze Indian Tribe; Will Micklin, Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians; Theron Rutyna, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians; Danae Wilson, Nez Perce Tribe; and Karen Woodard, Morongo Band of Mission Indians; and as FCC members: co-Chair Matthew Duchesne, Office of Native Affairs and Policy; Janet Sievert, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; Sue McNeil, Wireline Bureau; Suzanne Tetreault, Wireless Bureau; Lisa Scanlan, Media Bureau; David Furth, Public Safety Bureau; Lisa Gelb, Enforcement Bureau; and Jim Schlichting, International Bureau.