Communications Personals
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr taps Media Bureau’s Ben Arden as acting legal adviser-media issues ... FCC Chairman Ajit Pai designates Anna Gomez, Wiley Rein, to chair rechartered Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment, representing the Hispanic National Bar Association, and Heather Gate, Connected Nation, vice chair ... Scott Patrick, ex-Baker Hostetler, becomes executive director, NTIA Office of Spectrum Management ... Eric Null, New America Open Technology Institute, says he’s becoming Open Access’ U.S. policy manager, effective in mid-November ... Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan leaving government.
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Utilities Technology Council President-CEO Joy Ditto leaving in January to head American Public Power Association, succeeding President-CEO Sue Kelly, retiring ... Information Technology Industry Council hires Gordon Bitko, from FBI, as senior vice president-policy ... Wireless Infrastructure Association promotes Matt Mandel to vice president-government and public affairs, which he now heads on a permanent basis … Alaska Communications moves interim CEO Bill Bishop to president-CEO ... Space Foundation appoints Kevin Orangers, ex-National Liberty Museum, executive director-Discovery Center.
Libra Association announces Bertrand Perez, ex-PayPal, as chief operating officer and interim managing director; Kurt Hemecker, head-business development; and Dante Disparte, head-policy and communications; and elects to board Perez, also chairperson; Disparte, also deputy chairperson; Matthew Davie, Kiva Microfunds; Patrick Ellis, PayU; Katie Haun, Andreessen Horowitz; David Marcus, Calibra and Wences Casares, Xapo.
Univision taps John Hannon, ex-Jim Doyle & Associates, as president-general manager, Houston ... Cobalt Digital advances Ciro Noronha to executive vice president-engineering ... A+E Networks International Division promotes to senior vice president Glen Hansen, for content sales-Asia-Pacific region, and Ellen Lovejoy, also head-sales, Americas and formats ... Embrionix promotes Roy Folkman to vice president-sales, North America.
National Association of State Chief Information Officers elects Eric Boyette, state of North Carolina, president, succeeding James Collins; Denis Goulet, New Hampshire, vice president; Michael Leahy, Maryland, secretary/treasurer; Stephanie Dedmon, Tennessee, and Greg Zickau, Idaho, directors; and Rick Webb, Accenture, Corporate Leadership Council chair, and Ron Baldwin, Deloitte, CLC vice chair.