Communications Personals
Assistant to Agriculture Secretary-Rural Development Anne Hazlett says department's Bette Brand becomes acting administrator of USDA’s Rural Utilities Service and remains administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative Service ... Media Institute board designates Richard Kaplar president-CEO, says Chairman Richard Wiley, who stays in that post; Kaplar had previously remained executive director after being promoted to the group's head (see this section in the Dec. 6, 2017, issue).
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New America Open Technology Institute's Joanne Johnson moves to communications strategist, STEM Premier online platform ... CBS promotes Julio Marenghi to president-sales, CBS Television Stations, including stations and digital properties like CBSN Local, which last week began its first over-the-top service, in New York (see 1812130059).
Electronic Frontier Foundation adds to board Gigi Sohn, Benton Foundation and Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy ... TechNet puts on its Executive Council of technology industry leaders Ed Knight, Nasdaq global chief legal and policy officer ... Cirrus Logic adds Deirdre Hanford, Synopsys’ Design Group, to board.
FirstNet, whose directors met Thursday (see 1812130055), puts on board committees: Finance, chaired by Robert Osterthaler, includes Dana Wade, David Zolet, Brian Crawford and Paul Patrick; Technology, under Neil Cox, with Christopher Piehota, Ron Hewitt, Osterthaler and Welton Chase; Public Safety Advocacy led by Richard Stanek, with Teri Takai, Hewitt, Richard Ross, Billy Hewes, Paul Patrick and Richard Carrizzo; and Governance and Personnel, Edward Horowitz, chair, with Takai, Stanek, Cox and Crawford.