Communications Personals
WilmerHale adds former FTC officials Jennifer Milici, ex-Competition Bureau, and Dominic Vote, ex-Mergers II Division, as partners, Antitrust Group; Milici also joins the Trial Practice; both "anticipate officially beginning at the firm in March" ... SoftBank Group announces Chief Operating Officer Marcelo Claure departs the company “by mutual agreement,” and moves Michel Combes to replace him as CEO, SoftBank Group International.
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Disney announces Alexia Quadrani, from J.P. Morgan’s U.S. Media Equity Research group, as senior vice president-investor relations, reporting to Senior Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Christine McCarthy; also at Disney, Chad Matthews moves up to president-ABC Owned Television Stations ... Ozy Media taps David Lawrence, former global head-Goldman Sachs Business Intelligence Group and also ex-DOJ, as senior adviser to its board.
Western Digital hires Wissam Jabre from Dialog Semiconductor as executive vice president-CFO, effective the week of Feb. 7; current finance chief Robert Eulau remains with the company during an advisory period ... Flex adds retired Cummins CFO Patrick Ward to its board ... CalAmp taps Mark Gaydos from Nlyte Software as chief marketing officer ... Rent-A-Center elects Uber Rides Head-Product Jen You, also ex-Facebook, to its board.
Association of American Publishers directors elect Michael Pietsch, Hachette Book Group, as chairman for the 2022-23 term and Julia Reidhead, W.W. Norton & Co., as AAP vice chairman; Blaise Simqu, Sage Publications, joins the board as an appointed director; and Brian Napack from Wiley moves to the association's immediate past chairman.