George Mason University Mercatus Center adds outgoing FTC General Counsel Alden Abbott as senior research fellow ... Public Knowledge names Montana Williams, ex-Evans & Associates, policy fellow ... President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announce more National Security Council members, with new post of deputy national security adviser-cyber and emerging technology; Anne Neuberger, who led NSA election security, becomes director-cybersecurity ... Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Kevin Benacci says he's joining Targeted Victory, reportedly as vice president-corporate practice, working on cybersecurity.

Digital Media Solutions appoints from Skadden Arps Tony Saldana as general counsel and executive vice president-compliance ... VMware names Chief Financial Officer Zane Rowe interim CEO to replace Pat Gelsinger, who steps down Feb. 12 to succeed Bob Swan as Intel CEO, effective Feb. 15; Gelsinger will remain on the VMware board ... In Qualcomm buying Nuvia for $1.4 billion (see 2101130011), acquirer says Nuvia founders Gerard Williams, Manu Gulati and John Bruno and their employees will join Qualcomm ... EarthLink taps from AT&T Chris Roy as executive vice president-business services.

Colony Capital moves headquarters from Los Angeles to Boca Raton, Florida, where President-CEO Marc Ganzi and Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Jacky Wu are based; board moves Sonia Kim to chief accounting officer; Neale Redington to CFO-non-digital businesses; and Brian Lee to corporate treasurer ... Digital Realty hires FBI’s Don Freese, also ex-PwC, as chief information security officer ... Augmented reality company SightCall taps Dipak Joshi, ex-Retail Solutions and former BitTorrent, as chief financial officer.

BCM One promotes Mark Amick to group president, NextGen Communications; Paul Bloom to group president, Managed Services; Mike Nowak to senior vice president-sales, BCM One; and to vice presidents Meghan Neilan for direct sales, Andy Steinke, channel sales, and Paula Como Kauth, marketing ... Jason Klarman becomes president, Fox Nation and remains executive vice president-marketing, Fox News Media ... PagerDuty hires Sean Scott, ex-Amazon, as its first chief product officer ... Telecommunications Industry Association says American National Standards Institute elects TIA CEO David Stehlin to its 2021 board as director-at-large.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai appoints to Disability Advisory Committee's fourth two-year term, with this DAC first meeting virtually Feb. 18 at 1:30 p.m. (see our calendar): Debra Patkin, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, is designated federal officer, and Will Schell, also CGB, is DAC deputy DFO; co-chairs Brian Scarpelli, ACT|The App Association, and Isidore Niyongabo, National Black Deaf Advocates; members Scarpelli; Clark Rachfal, American Council of the Blind, and alternate Anthony Stephens; Sarah Malaier, American Foundation for the Blind, and alternate Stephanie Enyart; Maria Kirby, Apple, and alternate Sarah Herrlinger; Abe Rafi, The Arc; Linda Vandeloop, AT&T, and alternate Susan Mazrui; Wendy Sapp, Bridge Multimedia, and alternate Matthew Kaplowitz; Mark Hill, Cerebral Palsy and Deaf Organization; Carl Richardson, Boston Mayor’s Commission for Persons With Disabilities Advisory Board; Michael Strecker, ClearCaptions, and alternate Matthew Palmer; Thomas Wlodkowski, Comcast, and alternates Angela Ball, NBCUniversal, and Chris Wendt and Jerry Parkins, both Comcast Cable; Juli Robinson, Communication Service for the Deaf, and alternate Pat Myers; Rachel Nemeth, CTA, and alternate Jamie Susskind; Amanda Montgomery, Convo Communications; Kara Graves, CTIA, and alternate Sarah Leggin; George Stern, DeafBlind Citizens in Action, and alternate Divya Goel; Maria Diaz, Dicapta, and alternate Judy Mathews; Beth Slough, Hamilton Relay, and alternate Dixie Ziegler.

Other FCC DAC members are Lise Hamlin, Hearing Loss Association of America, and alternate Barbara Kelley; Mary Jo Mueller, IBM, and alternate Pamela Siebert; Cristina Duarte, InnoCaption, and alternate Joseph Duarte; Travis Dougherty, Maryland relay manager, and alternate Rebecca Rosenthal, North Carolina Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Division, for National Association for State Relay Administration; Joshua Pila, Meredith, and alternate Larry Walke, for NAB; Zainab Alkebsi, National Association of the Deaf, and alternate Howard Rosenblum; Niyongabo, National Black Deaf Advocates, and alternate Usherla DeBerry; Richard Ray, National Emergency Number Association; Everette Bacon, National Federation of the Blind of Utah, for National Federation of the Blind; Jared Sher, NCTA, and alternates Jacqueline Clary and Radhika Bhat; Kristyn Leigh, National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program, and alternate Marcia Brooks, Perkins School for the Blind-NDBEDP, for Perkins School for the Blind; Michael Maddix, Sorenson Communications, and alternate Bruce Peterson, CaptionCall, for Sorenson; Eric Kaika, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Inc. (TDI), and alternate Blake Reid, Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic, for TDI; Shellie Blakeney, T-Mobile, and alternate Dennis Selznick; Zachary Bastian, Verizon, and alternate Ian Dillner; and Gregory Hlibok, ZP Better Together, and alternate Mark Stern; and ex officio federal government representatives and non-voting members Timothy Creagan, U.S. Access Board, and alternate Bruce Bailey; Brianne Burger, Department of Education, and alternate Tara Courchaine; Stephen Bauer, Department of Health and Human Services, and alternate Lisa Bothwell; and Aaron Kubey, Department of Homeland Security-Federal Emergency Management Agency, and alternate Gay Jones.