Ballard Spahr hires trademark attorney Susan Smith from Hunton Andrews as partner, Trademark and Copyright practice group ... TechNet adds Servando Esparza, ex-Bird Rides, as executive director-Texas and the Southeast ... Electronic Transactions Association hires Max Behlke, ex-National Conference of State Legislatures, as director-state government affairs.
Viamedia promotes David Solomon to president-CEO, succeeding Mark Lieberman, who remains on the board ... AT&T and WarnerMedia move up Jennifer Biry to WarnerMedia chief financial officer, replacing Pascal Desroches, who's becoming parent company AT&T's CFO ... Meredith elevates Catherine Levene to president, National Media Group.
Disney Television Chairman-Entertainment Dana Walden restructures, with Disney Television Studios cut to two, "sunsetting the Touchstone label; original content teams at ABC and Hulu Originals will be consolidated under one leader; and 20th Animation and Unscripted Programming teams will be spun out into separate units"; Karey Burke moves to president, 20th Television, and reporting to her are Carolyn Cassidy, named executive vice president-development, and Jane Francis, moving from Touchstone Television to executive vice president-series; President, Touchstone Television Bert Salke moves to "new multi-year overall producing deal with Disney Television Studios"; Craig Hunegs becomes president-entertainment, Disney Television; while Craig Erwich switches to president, Hulu Originals and now also ABC Entertainment.
Once Salesforce buys Slack in approximately $27.7 billion deal, Slack becomes operating unit of Salesforce and continues to be led by CEO Stewart Butterfield; closing expected in Q2 of Salesforce’s FY 2022, ending in approximately late July ... BitPay hires Jagruti Solanki, ex-Aprio, as chief financial officer, and Shaun Worley, ex-Swivel, as product vice president ... Spok appoints Kristen Lalowski, ex-MDLive telemedicine company, as chief product officer ... Element Electronics hires Randy Wick from Dell Technologies as senior vice president-sales.
FCC Consumer Advisory Committee charter renewed for 11th two-year term (see 2012010062); roster includes CAC Chair Stephen Pociask, American Consumer Institute, and Vice Chair Debra Berlyn, Project to Get Older Adults onLine; other members will appear in a future personals section of this publication ... BSA|The Software Alliance adds DocuSign as global member and the company's General Counsel Tram Phi to the BSA board ... CrowdStrike puts Laura Schumacher, AbbVie chief legal officer, on its board.