Technology Policy Institute promotes Lindsay Poss to also be director-communications, newly created post; she continues as research analyst ... Squire Patton separates from Trent Lott, ex-Senate Commerce Committee Republican who participated in some telecom issues ... Among summer interns in office of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is Joe Kane, an ex-R Street Institute tech policy fellow on track to graduate from law school in 2022.
Cadence Design Systems appoints Alinka Flaminia, from Mellanox Technologies that was bought by Nvidia, senior vice president-chief legal officer-corporate secretary, succeeding Jim Cowie ... As Xperi and TiVo completed their "merger of equals" last week, others (see this section, June 9) named to combined company include Chief Revenue Officer Matt Milne, Chief Products and Services Officer Geir Skaaden and President-IP Licensing Samir Armaly, spokesperson says.
BTIG hires Jake Fuller, ex-Guggenheim Securities, as managing director to start digital services research coverage ... 8x8 promotes Sam Wilson to executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective now, succeeding Steven Gatoff, remaining with the company until the fall ... Joining Bolster: Deb Radcliff, ex-SANS Institute, named chief evangelist and Dave Engel, ex-Zingbox, chief revenue officer ... FuboTV appoints Diana Horowitz, ex-Telestream, to newly created position of senior vice president-advertising sales ... GatesAir advances Keyur Parikh to vice president-engineering.
Lobbyist registrations: Oklahoma telecom provider Hilliary Communications, CSS Partners, effective June 1 ... Password tech company TraitWare, JMBurkman & Associates, effective May 18 ... CTIA, American Continental Group on “spectrum allocation,” effective May 15 ... Deluxe Entertainment Services, Crowell & Moring on “potential COVID-19 relief for companies that support the media and entertainment industry,” effective May 1 ... Ligado, Polaris Government Relations on “Spectrum Matters, Generally,” effective May 1 ... The McKeon Group on behalf of Ligado, former House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., on Ligado’s L-band plan, effective April 27 ... Palo Alto Networks, H&M Strategies on cybersecurity, legislation, the National Defense Authorization Act, appropriations and “securing digital infrastructure,” effective May 1.
Further registrations: Identity management company Secure Identity, W Strategies, effective May 1 ... GPS positioning, navigation and timing services developer Hellen Systems, B+S Strategies, effective April 30 ... Workforce development tech company 1Huddle, Akin Gump, effective April 7 ... CTA, H&M Strategies on NDAA, Communications Decency Act Section 230, “online privacy,” “self-driving vehicles” and tech innovation, effective April 1 ... Fiber Broadband Association, Perry Bayliss on the Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow's America Act (HR-2741), Keeping Critical Connections Act (HR-6394/S-3569), Rural Broadband Acceleration Act (HR-7022) and other broadband deployment bills and “legislation regarding workforce training and development for telecom infrastructure,” effective April 1 ... TransUnion, Subject Matter on tech and other services, effective April 1.