DOJ Antitrust Division chief Makan Delrahim promotes Taylor Owings to division acting chief of staff and senior counsel, succeeding outgoing COS William Rinner, who's senior counsel until planned departure from the department "in the coming months" ... Verizon Public Sector names Jennifer Chronis, ex-Amazon Web Services, to lead Federal business; Michael Maiorana, Verizon Federal lead, leaving the business effective Dec. 31 ... Corning taps Chief Legal and Administrative Officer Lewis Steverson to lead new Office of Racial Equality and Social Unity, tasked with building diversity “within the walls of Corning” and in its “communities.”
Intel CEO Bob Swan announces Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group separated into: Technology Development led by Ann Kelleher, with Mike Mayberry, who had run Technology Development, consulting and assisting transition until planned Dec. 31 retirement; Manufacturing and Operations, helmed by Keyvan Esfarjani; Design Engineering, led in interim by Josh Walden, as Product Assurance and Security Group continues to report to him; and no change in leaders at Architecture, Software and Graphics, under Raja Koduri; and Supply Chain, Randhir Thakur; Murthy Renduchintala, who has been president, Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group, leaving the company.
Horizon fiber bandwidth services provider taps Jim Capuano, ex-FirstLight Fiber, as CEO ... Remedy on-demand healthcare provider adds health tech executive Ronald Dixon, ex-Onduo Professionals, as chief medical officer and healthcare executive Tabatha Erck recently joined as chief operating officer ... LegalZoom adds Shrisha Radhakrishna, ex-Intuit, as chief technology officer ... Match Group adds Jim Lanzone, ex-CBS, as CEO-Tinder, succeeding Elie Seidman, stepping down; hires gaming executive Joshua Sell as chief product officer-Tinder.
Salem Media says Steve Cortes is "temporarily stepping away from his daily radio talk show" to join President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign as senior adviser-communications ... Trump plans to nominate Virginia State Corporation Commission Chairman Mark Christie as member, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ... ODP, with brands including Office Depot, OfficeMax and CompuCom, adds Wendy Schoppert, ex-Sleep Number, to the board.
Lobbyist registrations: Cybersecurity products developer Second Front Systems, The Vogel Group, effective July 21 … Netflix, Mercury Public Affairs, effective July 9 ... DoorDash, Akin Gump, effective July 7 … Advance Publications, NVG on copyright protection and “competition issues related to the distribution of news content,” effective July 1 … Amazon, Facebook Google and Microsoft, all Hilltop Advocacy on “computer science education” in K-12 schools, effective July 1 … Cyber Commerce, Golden Oak Consulting, effective July 1 … Eagle Eye satellite and Cell Tower Communications, Phoenix Global Organization, effective July 1 … Medium, Franklin Square Group on “content moderation” and Communications Decency Act Section 230, effective July 1 … Semiconductor Industry Association, Miller & Chevalier, effective July 1 … T-Mobile, BL Partners Group, effective July 1 … Artificial Intelligence software provider Uptake, Alexander Borovicka, effective July 1 … Lyft, The Madison Group, effective June 18.
Additional registrations: Lattice Semiconductor, Clark Street Associates, effective June 16 … Global Patent Solutions, Pillsbury Winthrop on Patent and Trademark Office oversight, effective June 15 … Semiconductor Industry Association, Arent Fox on the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act (S-3933), American Foundries Act (S-4130), “semiconductor manufacturing incentives” in the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (S-4049), effective June 15 … Winn Strategies, TwinLogic Strategies on behalf of Twitter on Communications Decency Act Section 230, “content moderation, intermediary liability,” privacy and “civic engagement,” effective June 15 … Mobile tech company Incode Technologies, Hogan Lovells, effective June 8 … Television Association of Programmers Latin America, Hogan Lovells, effective June 8 … Radio and antenna tech developer ATR Electronics, Arent Fox on “programs for research and development of telecommunications technology,” Utilizing Strategic Allied Telecom Act (HR-6624/S-3189) and S-4049 “regarding research and development of telecommunications technology,” effective June 4.
Obituary: James Gattuso, Heritage Foundation senior research fellow in regulatory policy, has died, the group announced. He has also worked on free-market policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, among others. While at the FCC, he was detailed to the office of then-Vice President Dan Quayle. He's survived by his wife and other family. Heritage didn't provide further details.