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NTCA elects Fred Johnson, Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative, as chairman; Keith Oliver, Home Telephone Co., as vice chairman; and Barry Adair, Wabash Communications Co-Op, as secretary/treasurer ... Optimus Ride taps ex-Verizon Vice President, City Solutions Sean Harrington as CEO and member of its board, replacing co-founder Ryan Chin, who remains at the autonomous vehicle technology systems developer "with responsibility over policy and sustainability initiatives" ... WWE appoints Karen Mullane controller-chief accounting officer; she's ex-corporate controller and interim chief financial officer, Etsy ... Board member Arun Sarin leaves Cisco, which says directors "reduced the size of the Board to nine members effective with Mr. Sarin’s resignation."

For rechartered FCC Consumer Advisory Committee (see this section, Dec. 2, our calendar here and 2012010062), staying on are Designated Federal Officer Scott Marshall, from Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, and Deputy Designated Federal Officer Gregory Haledjian, also from CGB; members are: AARP's Dawit Kahsai and alternate Coralette Hannon; ACA Connects' Brian Hurley and alternate Michael Jacobs; American Consumer Institute CEO Stephen Pociask with alternate Krisztina Pusok; American Council of the Blind's Clark Rachfal; AT&T's Vonda Long-Dillard and alternate Linda Vandeloop; Call for Action President Shirley Rooker with alternate Sherry Green of WJLA-TV Washington; for Consumer Federation of America, Irene Leech, from Virginia Tech University, and alternate Susan Grant; CTA's Jamie Susskind and alternate Rachel Nemeth; CTIA's Sarah Leggin and alternate Matthew Gerst; Digital Liberty's Katie McAuliffe; Digital Policy Institute's Barry Umansky and alternate Dom Caristi of Ball State University; Incompas' Lindsay Stern; Eric Koch "in his individual capacity" as special government employee; LGBT Technology Institute's Ellie Bessette; plus Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable's Joslyn Day and alternate William Bendetson.

Also on CAC are Wes Morrison "in his individual capacity" as special government employee; NAB's Larry Walke and alternate Liliana Ranon; for National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, Thaddeus Johnson; National Conference of State Legislatures' Abbie Gruwell and alternate Ben Husch; National Consumers League's John Breyault and alternate Cleo Stamatos; NCTA's Radhika Bhat and alternate Steven Morris; Next Century Cities Executive Director Francella Ochillo; Project to Get Older Adults onLine Executive Director Debra Berlyn; Rural Rise's Tina Metzer and alternate Joseph Kapp; Michael Santorelli "in his individual capacity" as special government employee; Taxpayers Protection Alliance's Johnny Kampis and alternate Ross Marchand; Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing CEO Eric Kaika and alternate Blake Reid from University of Colorado, Boulder; Trevor Project's Sam Brinton and alternate Sam Dorison; and USTelecom's Josh Bercu and alternate Kayla Gardner.