Communications Personals

BTIG working with new telecom, media and tech venture led by BTIG TMT analysts Richard Greenfield, Walter Piecyk and Brandon Ross with Joseph Galone and Mark Kelley ... Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. promotes Wendell Huang to chief financial officer, effective Sept. 1, replacing Lora Ho, who becomes head of European and Asian sales ... Fox promotes Jason Ehrich to executive vice president-audience development and strategic partnerships, Fox News Channel, new position.

HBO Max original content team headed by Sarah Aubrey: Executive Vice Presidents Joey Chavez, original drama; Jessie Henderson, original feature films; Suzanna Makkos, original comedy and animation; and Jennifer O’Connell, original non-fiction and kids; and Senior Vice President Jeniffer Kim, international originals; and for HBO Max business operations and strategy group: President Sandra Dewey, business operations and production; Executive Vice Presidents Meredith Gertler, program strategy and planning; Michael Quigley, content acquisitions and strategy; and Patrick Kelly, business affairs; and Senior Vice President Eric Besner-business development and strategy; also, President-HBO Programming Casey Bloys has dual function on HBO Max.

Dish Network appoints Kannan Alagappan, ex-Telstra, senior vice president-chief technology officer ...A+E Networks promotes Saugato Banerjee to managing director-Asia ... Microsoft’s Heidi Holman becomes XRA board member as company joins the virtual, augmented and mixed reality association ... Sandy Gunn, Comcast Advertising, joins Content & Connectivity Human Resources board.

Lobbyist registrations: ByteDance, Covington & Burling, effective July 17 ... Rothschild Film and Television, on its own behalf, effective July 14 ... Healthcare software company Epic Systems, Olsson Frank, effective July 1 ... Uniti Fiber, Jones Walker, effective July 1 ... Semiconductor equipment manufacturer Advantest America, Girard Government Relations, effective July 9 ... Microsoft, Sextons Creek, effective June 21 ... Red Hat, Hettinger Strategy Group on government “acquisition of software and related technology products” and cloud computing issues, effective June 15 ... E-retailer Balsam Brands, Alston & Bird, effective June 12 ... Crown Castle, Thompson Coburn, effective June 11 ... Disney, Ferox Strategies, effective June 11 ... Amazon Web Services, Miller Strategies, effective June 5 ... Viacom, Becker & Poliakoff on content, piracy and privacy-related issues, effective June 3 ... AWS, Berquam Ventures and Team Hallahan on FY 2020 appropriations related to federal IT modernization and cloud computing, effective June 1 ... Nokia, Navigators Global, effective June 1 ... CTIA, Capitol Counsel, effective May 20 ... Apple, Invariant on “privacy and encryption, intellectual property and copyright, and competition; educate Members of Congress about supply chain” protocols, effective May 15 ... Huawei, Las Vegas Public Radio “to address concerns that Members of Congress, Executive branch and American businesses have about Huawei products/services being developed or manufactured” for U.S consumption, effective May 1 ... Sterlite Technologies, Wiley Rein, effective April 22 ... Ligado, Velocity Government Relations on “general oversight of NOAA & commercial space activities including spectrum sharing to enable 5G while protecting government assets,” effective April 5 ... National Association of Software and Services Companies, Abraham Strategies, effective April 1 ... Teladoc Health, on its own behalf, effective April 1 ... Verisign, American Continental Group on internet governance and security issues, effective April 1 ... Verizon, Cypress Advocacy on 5G, spectrum and data privacy issues, effective April 1.