Communications Personals
Ballard Spahr adds Jay Coogan, ex-DLA Piper, as partner, Business and Transactions Department, working on deals, with clients including in technology ... Sidley Austin adds Nicolai Schwarz-Gondek, ex-O’Melveny & Myers, as partner, Private Equity practice, working on deals including information services and technology, media and software ... Twilio adds from Facebook Mike Buckley as vice president-corporate communications ... Rockwell Automation advances Patricia Contreras to vice president, she's the "first Latina to lead the company’s global public affairs."
Mitre, restructuring R&D for federally funded efforts and working with academia and industry, promotes wireless, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence expert Charles Clancy to senior vice president-chief futurist-general manager of the new Mitre Labs; John Wilson becomes vice president-chief information and security officer, from interim basis; and Christina Orfanos moves up to vice president-talent experience & total rewards ... Radio Club of America announces 2020 fellows: Jim Bugel; Raymond Grimes; Tracey Hilburn; Paul Scutieri; Alan Tilles; and David Witkowski.
The Black News Channel hires Princell Hair, ex-Comcast/NBC Sports, as president-CEO; interim CEO J.C. Watts returns to chairman's job ... Entravision appoints Stephen Chung, ex-Applift, chief revenue officer, International Digital business ... Exabeam hires former Palo Alto Networks executive Adam Geller for chief product officer ... WarnerMedia Entertainment promotes to senior vice presidents Jackie Gagne for multicultural marketing and Richard Jennings for design and production ... Pitney Bowes elects Sheila Stamps, ex-DBI, to its board, effective Sept. 1 ... CEO Riet Cadonau of the dormakaba access products provider to buildings joins Logitech board.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names to new Hospital Robocall Protection Group (see report, this issue), which has its first meeting July 27: Chair Dave Summitt, Moffitt Cancer Center, and Vice Chair Patrick Halley, US Telecom; and with voice service providers that serve hospitals are John Cunningham, CenturyLink, Joseph DeLotto, Charter Communications, and Linda Vandeloop, AT&T; with companies that focus on mitigating unlawful robocalls Mark Collier, SecureLogix, Aaron Foss, Nomorobo, and Halley, USTelecom; for consumer advocacy organizations John Breyault, National Consumers League, Dawit Kahsai, AARP, and Irene Leech, Consumer Federation of America; with one-way VoIP services Gunnar Halley, Microsoft, Rebekah Johnson, Numeracle, and Chris Shipley, Incompas; for hospitals Richard Lovich, Stephenson Acquisto and American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management national counsel, John Riggi, American Hospital Association, and Summitt, Moffitt; state government officials focused on combating unlawful robocalls Creecy Johnson, North Carolina Attorney General’s Office; David McCoy, Office of the Arkansas Attorney General; and Wisam Naoum, Michigan Department of Attorney General; FCC representative Commissioner Brendan Carr; FTC representative Commissioner Noah Phillips; FCC Designated Federal Officer Donna Cyrus and Deputy Designated Federal Officer Aliza Katz.