CTIA promotes Assistant Vice President-Regulatory Affairs Michael Mullinix to vice president-regulatory affairs … Berkeley Research Group names Chris Stangl, ex-section chief in the FBI’s Cyber Division, managing director-cybersecurity and investigations practice in its D.C. office ... Pocket FM, audio streaming app for iOS and Android, promotes Vice President-Finance Anurag Sharma to CFO ... Rivada Space Networks hires former Singtel, AsiaSat and SES executive Donald Chew as vice president-sales, Asia Pacific, based in Singapore ... Enterprise browser company Island names Forescout Technologies’ Steve Tchejeyan president ... Nexstar adds former Verizon Chief Media Officer Tony Wells to its board, filling seat vacated when Dennis Miller left in October to become CW Network president.
Alphabet promotes Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat to Alphabet/Google president-chief investment officer, newly created role, effective Sept. 1 … Mobility software company Passport promotes Chief Operating Officer Jim Parks to president, and names board member Brian Mooney interim CEO to replace former CEO David Evans ... Surefire Local, business intelligence software company, promotes Michael Pierce to CEO, replacing Christopher Marentis, moving to executive chairman.
President Joe Biden nominates Harry Coker, senior fellow at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, as national cyber director (see 2307250067) … Nexstar names Michael Biard, ex-Fox, president-chief operating officer, effective Aug. 21, replacing Thomas Carter, becoming senior adviser through year-end ... Loch Technologies, wireless attack surface threat monitoring company, taps AT&T’s Matthew Wickline as vice president-sales ... Avant Technologies appoints Danny Rittman, ex-GBT Technologies, chief information security officer.
DLA Piper names Ann Ishee, ex-T-Mobile, a managing director-telecom group … Vodafone appoints Luka Mucic, former SAP chief financial officer, as CFO-executive director, effective Sept. 1 … Charter Communications promotes Danny Bowman to executive vice president-product ... Executive recruitment firm Morgan Samuels hires Jesse Annunziata, ex-Artico Search, as senior client partner and practice security leader-cybersecurity.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel's new chief counsel is Priscilla Delgado-Argeris (see 2307200051).
FCC announces bureau leadership teams, with each staffer coming from another agency position unless otherwise indicated: for the Wireless Bureau, Barbara Esbin, Kari Hicks and Susan Mort, deputy bureau chiefs; Jessica Greffenius and Jessica Quinley, assistant bureau chiefs; Arpan Sura, senior counsel to the chief; Janet Young, chief engineer; and Cameron Duncan and John Lockwood, legal and policy advisers.
FCC personnel changes: Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel Chief Legal Adviser Priscilla Delgado-Argeris moves to chief counselor, Competition Policy Division’s Ramesh Nagarajan becomes Rosenworcel’s chief legal adviser, and Wireline Bureau’s Rashann Duvall becomes legal adviser; Wireline Bureau’s Lauren Geary becomes legal adviser to Commissioner Brendan Carr, replacing Danielle Thurmann, resigned; and John Stein from Officer of the Chief Information Officer and John Kuzma from the Chicago field office are both retiring … T-Mobile names DLA Piper’s Smitty Smith to replace Kathleen Ham as senior president-government affairs, when Ham retires Oct. 2 (see 2307200052) … Georgia Public Service Commission elects Commissioner Jason Shaw chairman for a two-year term, succeeding Tricia Pridemore, who remains commissioner.
Disney promotes Alexia Quadrani to executive vice president-investor relations ... Nexstar promotes Larry Cottrill to vice president-general manager, WCMH-TV Columbus, succeeding Ken Freedman, retiring, and hires Mitzi Coleman, from KTVL Medford, Oregon, as vice president-general manager, WTRF-TV Wheeling, West Virginia, succeeding Roger Lyons, retiring … CBS News and Stations names Kim Voet, ex-WDIV-TV Detroit, president-general manager of its businesses in Miami, including WFOR-TV and WBFS-TV, effective Aug. 14.
Wiley hires former FCC Deputy Bureau Chief Diane Holland as partner-telecom, media and tech … Nexstar signs multiyear contract extensions with President-Networks Sean Compton and President-Distribution and Strategy Dana Zimmer; Nexstar's 8-K filing Monday said Compton’s contract runs through September 2027, Zimmer’s through September 2026 ... Colohouse collocation, cloud, bare metal and managed services provider announces Aptum Technologies’ Ross Woodham as chief legal officer.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) reappoints Renee Larrick to a second, six-year term on the Public Service Commission … Tubi, Fox’s free ad-supported streaming service, hires Vimeo’s Anjali Sud as CEO, effective Sept. 1, succeeding Farhad Massoudi, Tubi's founder and CEO, who announced his departure earlier in the year.