Communications Personals
Google CEO Sundar Pichai becomes also Alphabet CEO; Alphabet CEO Larry Page and President Sergey Brin leave their roles, remaining shareholders and board members ... Wiley Rein promotes Henry Gola to partner, and Daniel Brooks and Kathryne Dickerson to of counsel, all telecom, media and technology ... Brendan Parets, ex-office of Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., rejoins Covington & Burling as special counsel-congressional investigations and lobbying, telecom, technology and judiciary ... Cable and communications lawyer Craig Gilley leaves Mintz for Venable.
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Information Technology Industry Council taps Jonathan Pawlow, ex-office of Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., as senior director-government affairs ... Nossaman hires David Marion, ex-Law Office of Matthew Sumrow, as partner-corporate, including tech, telecom, mergers and acquisitions ... RIAA names Kim Atterbury, ex-Service Employees International Union, senior vice president-media relations ... SEC promotes Kristina Littman to chief, Enforcement Division cyber unit, succeeding Robert Cohen, now partner, Davis Polk.
News Corp appoints David Kline, from Viacom, chief technology officer, effective January, succeeding Marc Frons, stepping down ... Sinclair’s One Media 3.0 promotes Sesh Simha to vice president-advanced technology, responsible for “global ecosystem development” of ATSC 3.0's “direct-to-mobile broadcast-5G convergence” ... Tegna adds Rick Rogala, from Bespoke Health Media, as president-general manager, Memphis’ WATN-TV and WLMT ... NPR affiliate KUT (FM) Austin announces Teresa Frontado, from WLRN Miami, as executive editor, new post and effective in January.
Loylogic hires Gabi Kool, QIX founder, chief commercial officer ... Univision moves Hilda Garcia to vice president-digital local news and promotes Fernando Mexia to senior director and managing editor-entertainment ... Rothschild hires Michael Altmin, ex-Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as managing director-tech ... Nokia Chair Risto Siilasmaa not seeking re-election; board proposes promoting Vice Chair Sari Baldauf to chair, and member Kari Stadigh to vice chair at 2020 annual meeting, subject to re-election.