Woods Aitken adds Shana Knutson as partner, working on telecom, business services and real estate law; she was Nebraska Public Service Commission general counsel ... Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden reappoints Judge David Strickler as copyright royalty judge (economics) for six-year term ... Karen Modlin says she's leaving Dish Network for Zayo, which hires her as director-communications.
Univision hires Michael Schwimmer, former Sling TV group president and Dish Media executive vice president, as president-global platform strategy and revenue, newly created position reporting to CEO Wade Davis ... Movado Group adds Universal Music Group’s Maya Peterson to its board, effective Feb. 1, expanding it to eight members.
National Spectrum Consortium elects as chair Salvador D’Itri, Federated Wireless, and as vice chair Jeff Evans, Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Communications Policy; and to executive committee Sheryl Genco, Ericsson, representing "Large, Non-Traditional Businesses"; Erik Perrins, University of Kansas, representing "Academia, Non-Traditional Businesses"; Paul Steinberg, Motorola Solutions, for "At-Large Traditional Businesses"; and Kamran Mahbobi, MaXentric Technologies, advocating for "Small, Non-Traditional" firms.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel names to Technological Advisory Council in addition to Dean Brenner, ex-Qualcomm executive, as panel's chairman (2201190073); TAC Designated Federal Officer Michael Ha, from the Office of Engineering and Technology; and Alternate Designated Federal Officer Martin Doczkat, also with OET; TAC members include Shahid Ahmed, NTT; Mark Bayliss, Visual Link Internet; Nomi Bergman, Advance/Newhouse; Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft; William Check, NCTA; Lynn Claudy, NAB; Andrew Clegg, Google, representing Wireless Innovation Forum; Alissa Cooper, Cisco; Martin Cooper, Dyna; Brian Daly, AT&T; Adam Drobot, OpenTechWorks; Jeff Foerster, Intel; Peter Gammel, GlobalFoundries; Monisha Ghosh, Wireless institute at University of Notre Dame; Abhimanyu Gosain, Institute for the Wireless IoT and on behalf of Northeastern University, which hosts the institute; Dick Green, Liberty Global; Lisa Guess from Cradlepoint and she reps Ericsson North America; Dale Hatfield, Technology, Cybersecurity and Policy Program at University of Colorado-Boulder; Mark Hess, Comcast; Manish Jindal, Charter Communications; Karri Kuoppamaki, T-Mobile; Steve Lanning, Viasat; Gregory Lapin, ARRL; Kaniz Mahdi, VMware; Jennifer Manner, Hughes Network Systems; Dan Mansergh, Apple; Brian Markwalter, CTA; Jose Mejia, RapidSOS; Lynn Merrill from Monte Lee and Co., representing NTCA; and Amit Mukhopadhyay, Nokia; This section in an upcoming issue of this publication will include additional members of the FCC council, who also are listed here.