President-elect Joe Biden announces his senior staff includes Director, White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Julie Rodriguez, ex-deputy campaign manager, Biden-Kamala Harris campaign ... Bill Barloon, who recently left Sprint after it was bought by T-Mobile, starts lobbying firm Barloon.co; he will initially focus on tech, telecom, copyright and electronic commerce, he tells us ... Air Force moves Brig. Gen. Douglas Schiess to director-space and cyber operations, Space Force Space Operations Command.
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AT&T Chief Financial Officer John Stephens retiring in March, with WarnerMedia CFO Pascal Desroches succeeding Stephens, effective April 1; during the transition, Desroches is AT&T senior executive vice president-finance ... Dish Network taps Robert Currie, who led Telus Communications' Koodo Mobile and Public Mobile, for senior vice president, Ting Mobile prepaid wireless service ... Cisco hires Autodesk's Scott Herren as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Dec. 18, when Kelly Kramer resigns and becomes executive adviser until Nov. 15.
Disney promotes Ayo Davis to newly created position of executive vice president-creative development and strategy, Disney Branded Television ... E.W. Scripps promotes Dan Perschke to vice president-controller and Rebecca Riegelsberger to treasurer and vice president-tax, and moves Doug Lyons, who was senior vice president-controller and treasurer, to senior vice president-financial strategy and special projects ... Hearst Television advances Andrew Fitzgerald to senior vice president-streaming video services ... HKW private equity firm adds tech investment expert Rick Ammar, ex-Macquarie, as vice president, "expanding technology efforts."
Kaleidescape appoints as CEO Tayloe Stansbury, ex-Watermark Insights, succeeding Cheena Srinivasan, who remains with Kaleidescape as founder and executive vice president, “focused on alliances and business development, including movie studio relationships”; Norma Garcia-Muro, former Dolby, THX and Lucasfilm, joins Kaleidescape as vice president-marketing ... Wesco International taps Akash Khurana, ex-McDermott International, for executive vice president-chief information and digital officer ... CDK Global hires Kirsten Garen, ex-Delta Dental of California, as chief information officer and member, executive leadership team ... President Donald Trump's nomination sent to Senate for Joseph Barloon to be judge, U.S. Court of International Trade; Leo Maury Gordon retired.
NARUC then-President Brandon Presley nominated to Federal State Joint Board on Universal Service, due to vacancies and with concurrence of State Joint Board member Chris Nelson: Public Utilities Regulatory Authority's Michael Caron, Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable's Karen Charles Peterson and Presley of Mississippi Public Service Commission; South Dakota Public Utilities Commission's Nelson is the one NARUC member on the board; Presley has since been succeeded as NARUC president by Idaho Public Utilities Commission's Paul Kjellander.
Fiber Broadband Association adds Craig Stein of Adtran to the board, due to vacant seat of Gary Bolton, recently named FBA president-CEO (see this section, Oct. 30) ... GSMA elects new board members for January 2021 through December 2022: Makoto Takahashi, CEO of KDDI; Hyeonmo Ku, KT CEO; Luigi Gubitosi, Telecom Italia CEO; and Kaan Terzioglu, Veon co-CEO ... Alliance for IP Media Solutions newly elects for 2020-21 board Terry Holton, from Yamaha, and Andrew Starks, Macnica ... Geospace Technologies adds Kenneth Asbury, CACI International's ex-president-CEO, and Margaret Ashworth, former Northrop Grumman vice president-government relations, to its board.