FCC acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel also announces (see this section, July 14 issue of this publication) that Mark Bykowsky, industry economist, Office of Economics and Analytics, is retiring ... At Disney, General Counsel Alan Braverman and Chief Communications Officer Zenia Mucha decide to retire from the company after their contracts expire at year's end ... Uber hires for federal affairs team Ryan Thornton from Information Technology Industry Council as the company's senior associate-external affairs.
White House hires as senior adviser-technology strategy Lindsay Gorman, ex-emerging technologies fellow at German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy and consultant to Schmidt Futures ... President Joe Biden nominates Alan Estevez, defense and security consultant with Deloitte Consulting and a former Obama administration Pentagon technology official, to lead Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security ... Biden's nomination sent to Senate for Alexander Hoehn-Saric as commissioner, Consumer Product Safety Commission (see this section, July 7 issue of this publication) for seven years from Oct. 27, 2020; Elliot Kaye's term expired; Hoehn-Saric also put forward for CPSC chairman.
LG Ads, provider of LG smart TV audience data, promotes Raghu Kodige to CEO, replacing Ashish Chordia, who becomes executive chairman; hires former Comscore CEO Serge Matta as president; and moves Chief Growth Officer Ashish Baldua to chief product officer ... Ad tech startup Permission.io hires Rachel Miller, former TikTok privacy law specialist, as director-marketing communications ... Predictiv AI names Chairman Jim Grimes to additional role of interim president-CEO with pending July 30 resignation of President-CEO Michael Lende for personal family reasons.
MoffettNathanson hires Zane Chrane from Bernstein & Co. as senior research analyst covering software and crypto technology ... Crown Media adds to marketing division, Crown Global Brand Group Terry McCormick, ex-Discovery, as senior vice president-brand creative and Christopher Doyle, ex-Travel Channel, as vice president-brand design ... GlobalFoundries adds Alan Shaffer, former acting assistant defense secretary under President Donald Trump, to its government security committee.
Quantum Loophole gets "significant investment" from Tom Natelli, the CEO-principal owner of Natelli Communities, who also joins Quantum's board ... New at NARUC affiliate Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utility Commissioners are Maryland Public Service Commissioner Anthony O'Donnell moving up to president, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille to first vice president and Kentucky PSC Vice Chairman Kent Chandler as an officer.