FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announces Arpan Sura, from the Wireless Bureau, as his legal adviser … 5G Americas elects Ulf Ewaldsson, T-Mobile US president-technology, as board chairman … Brent Skorup announces he has left George Mason University's Mercatus Center to become a research fellow at the Cato Institute's Levy Center for Constitutional Studies … Pierson Ferdinand, tech-focused law firm, launches, with more than 130 partners representing 80-plus practices areas, including partners, all from FisherBroyles: Rachel Huffstetler and Keats Quinalty, both intellectual property; Adam Ettinger, chief technology officer; Vincent Bushnell, cyber risk, privacy and data Security; Je d Davis, Charles Geitner and Dan McGuire, cybersecurity and privacy; Maryam Meseha, cybersecurity and data protection; and Tony Onorato, cybersecurity, cyber risk and data breach ... Vislink appoints Christopher DeSalvo, ex-Paychex, as chief financial officer-vice president, operations ... Fox News Media promotes Scott Wilder to executive vice president-production and operations ... NetApp names Commvault’s Riccardo Di Blasio senior vice president-North America sales ... Intel hires Justin Hotard from Hewlett Packard Enterprise as executive vice president-general manager, Data Center and AI Group, and adds him to its executive leadership team, effective Feb. 1.
ACA Connects hires three vice presidents: Zamir Ahmed, ex-NAB, for external affairs; Olivia Shields, ex-House Commerce Committee, public affairs and communications; and Max Staloff, ex-Jenner & Block and former FCC, for regulatory affairs … USTelecom appoints Keller and Heckman’s Kathleen Slattery Thompson as vice president-policy and advocacy … Akin promotes intellectual property lawyer David Lee to partner … Troutman Pepper Names patent and IP partner Tate Tischner as managing partner, Rochester office … Former Lawler Metzger partner Jim Falvey announces opening of The Law Office of James C. Falvey, representing fiber infrastructure and other telecom providers ... Carbyne, tech provider for emergency response call management, appoints Chris Hill, ex-Synchronoss Technologies, as chief operating officer … Secure Technology Alliance’s Identity and Access Forum announces its first steering committee, including Chair Teresa Wu, Idemia; Vice Chair Rajan Barara, Entrust; Secretary Sruti Jain, Consult Hyperion; and Treasurer Jatin Deshpande, Giesecke+Devrient … Edge-computing platform Edgio promotes Chief Revenue Officer Todd Hinders to CEO, replacing Bob Lyons, who left his roles as president-CEO and as a member of the board ... Sovrn, tech platform for online publishers, hires Criteo’s Isaac Schechtman as vice president-product, Ad Exchange.
Laura Phillips, ex-Faegre Drinker, launches Phillips Communications Law, focused on telecom … TDS Telecom promotes Shane West to chief operating officer … Following its acquisition of Broadcast Microwave Services, Vislink Technologies announces Bill Sweeney, ex-Troll Systems and ex-BMS, as managing director-military government business … With EchoStar completing its Dish acquisition, combined company fixes board at 11 members, appointing Dish CEO-President Hamid Akhavan; directors from Dish; Kathleen Abernathy, Cantey Ergen, Stephen Bye, James DeFranco, George Brokaw and Tom Ortolf; and directors from EchoStar Stanton Dodge, Lisa Hershman and William Wade; Charles Ergen continues as chairman … MediaCo Holding hires iHeart Media’s Chris Squire as senior vice president-sales and marketing, HOT 97 and WBLS(FM) New York ... Zeasn, developer of the Whale television operating system, hires Roku’s Mike Duin as vice president-global marketing and communications and adds him to its global strategy committee ... Carbyne, provider of emergency response call management software, taps Synchronoss Technologies’ Chris Hill, also former AT&T, as chief operating officer ... Krista Witanowski, ex-Meta, joins FCC as legal adviser-Office of Engineering and Technology ... Huading Awards Group announces resignation of filmmaker Wang Haige as chairman with the expiration of his term.