Communications director for Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Rick VanMeter, leaving that office and the Commerce Committee for the private sector and being succeeded by newly promoted Phillip Waller ... Mintz attorneys promoted to members include Angela Kung, for Technology, Communications & Media, working on spectrum use policies and auction procedures; Marguerite McConihe, Intellectual Property, including technology hardware, software, internet and semiconductors; and Lily Zhang, IP, on areas including artificial intelligence, wireless communication, data storage and management, network hardware and software, cybersecurity and cryptography.

ZwillGen hires James Orenstein, ex-U.S. magistrate judge for Eastern District of New York, as senior legal director, to work on technology and surveillance litigation ... GTT Communications Chief Financial Officer Steven Berns steps down; Senior Vice President-Finance Donna Granato named interim CFO ... Tech Data hires Al Morales, ex-AmerisourceBergen, for chief transformation officer, effective Jan. 4, new post.

Cisco Executive Vice President-Chief of Operations Irving Tan decides to return to Singapore, steps down and will help on "special projects in Asia Pacific, Japan, and China"; Executive Vice President-Chief Customer Experience Officer Maria Martinez expands role to also lead some operations ... Deep Instinct names Ryan Shopp, ex-AppDynamics, to new job of chief marketing officer.

House Commerce Committee Democrats adding for next Congress: Angie Craig of Minnesota, Lizzie Fletcher of Texas, Kathleen Rice of New York, Kim Schrier of Washington and Lori Trahan of Massachusetts; Democrats leaving the committee are: New York's Eliot Engel; Ben Ray Lujan from New Mexico and who won a Senate seat; David Loebsack, Iowa; and Joe Kennedy from Massachusetts; see also 2012180059.

At New York Times Co., author and fourth-generation Ochs Sulzberger family member Arthur Golden joins the board, effective Jan. 1, the day after Arthur Sulzberger Jr. retires as chairman and board member (see this section, Sept. 25) ... Wilkinson Barker new partner Arthur Ortegon (see this section, Dec. 8) appointed by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) to Adams State University board of trustees for four-year term ... DataRobot board joined by Chuck Robel, chairman of GoDaddy.