Related to FCC changes announced at commissioners' meeting Thursday and according to various officials: NCTA hires Amy Bender, departing wireline legal adviser to Commissioner Mike O’Rielly, as vice president-legislative counsel, Government Relations department; Facebook hires Deputy Media Bureau Chief Mary Beth Murphy; Betsy McIntyre, deputy chief of Wireless Bureau Competition and Infrastructure Policy Division, named acting wireline adviser to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel during Travis Litman's paternity leave; Wireline Bureau Deputy Chief Madeleine Findley departing and is relocating; office of Commissioner Brendan Carr adds from Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Dana Howell as staff assistant; Office of Engineering and Technology Physical Scientist Ed Mantiply retiring.
Accenture names Gene Reznik, ex-Technology Ecosystem & Ventures, chief strategy officer, succeeding Omar Abbosh, previously announced as group chief executive-Communications, Media & Technology, both effective Sept. 1 ... Alex Stamos resigns as Facebook chief security officer, effective Aug. 17 ... International Data Corp. hires Karl Whitelock, ex-Stratecast|Frost & Sullivan, as research vice president-communications service provider-operations and monetization ... Fitbit hires Koby Avital, ex-Priceline, as executive vice president-engineering ... Control4 hires Charlie Kindel, ex-Amazon Alexa and Echo, as senior vice president-products and services ... Synacor promotes Tim Heasley to chief financial officer, succeeding Bill Stuart, available to the company as a senior adviser ... President Donald Trump's nomination sent to the Senate for Kelvin Droegemeier to be director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, a post previously held by John Holdren under then-President Barack Obama.
CBS board hires Covington & Burling and Debevoise & Plimpton for "a full investigation of the allegations in recent press reports about Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves, CBS News and cultural issues at all levels of CBS" (see 1807300062, 1808020065 and here); at Covington, investigation led by ex-federal prosecutor Nancy Kestenbaum and at Debevoise by ex-SEC Chair Mary Jo White, also former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where Kestenbaum previously worked; a special board committee to help the probe starts, with Bruce Gordon, Linda Griego and Robert Klieger; all directors name Gordon their lead independent director.
New moves in Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners 2018-19 elections: moving up to president is Dallas Winslow, Delaware Public Service commissioner; to first vice president Brooks McCabe, West Virginia PSC member; New Jersey Board of Public Utilities President Joseph Fiordaliso joins as secretary-treasurer, succeeding District of Columbia Public Service Commissioner Willie Phillips, named second vice president.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names new members to Intergovernmental Advisory Committee for its current term through March 24, with Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) chair, and with designee Matthew Clark; Ducey succeeds Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) (see 1701100065), who remains as state executive rep, with Elin Katz continuing as designee; there are 18 new members due to a January order doubling panel's size to 30 (see 1801110038) and the conclusion of terms of then-Florida Public Service Commissioner Ronald Brisé (D) and then-Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed (D), while San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee (D) died in December; besides Ducey, other state executive representatives are Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R), with designee state Chief Information Officer David DeVries; and Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R), designee Robert Carter; municipal reps are Columbia, South Carolina Mayor Stephen Benjamin (D); Dallas Council member Lee Kleinman (nonpartisan) and North Miami, Florida, Councilman Alix Desulme (D); county reps: Maricopa, Arizona, Supervisor Bill Gates (R), and Maine's Aroostook Commissioner Paul Adams (I), with designee Ryan Pelletier; state legislative reps: Virginia Delegate Tim Hugo (R), Pennsylvania Rep. Kristin Phillips-Hill (R), South Carolina Rep. Garry Smith (R) and Utah Sen. Wayne Harper (R); state public utility commission reps Puerto Rico Telecom Regulatory Board Commissioner Alexandra Fernandez Navarro, U.S. Virgin Islands Public Service Commissioner Johann Clendenin, Wisconsin PSC Chairman Lon Roberts, with designee state Broadband Director Angie Dickison, and Texas PUC Chairman DeAnn Walker; and tribal reps Arthur Blazer, Mescalero Apache Tribe, designee Mescalero Apache Telecom General Manager Godfrey Enjady, and Russell Begaye, Navajo Nation president, designee Navajo Nation Telecom Regulatory Commission Executive Director Teresa Hopkins.