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Goodfriend Group hires Earl Ash, ex-aide to Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., as senior director-public policy and government relations, specializing in telecom, technology and media, succeeding Meagan Sunn, named tech, telecom and judiciary counsel at office of Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich. ... Cooley global cyber/data/privacy team adds Tiana Demas from Facebook as partner.
E.W. Scripps promotes Jonathan Katz to chief operating officer and head-entertainment for its new national TV networks business, effective when Scripps buys Ion Media ... IHeartMedia hires from Greenberg Traurig Gabe Fleet as executive vice president-business affairs and chief music licensing counsel, effective Jan. 11 ... Entercom adds Ashok Sinha, ex-WarnerMedia, as senior vice president-head, corporate communications and public relations ... Sony/ATV Music Publishing promotes Antony Bebawi to president-global digital.
ON24 taps Steve Daheb from Oracle as chief marketing officer ... Resideo Technologies names Travis Merrill, ex-Flir, executive vice president-chief strategy and commercial officer, newly created position ... Metamaterial hires Jonathan Waldern from DigiLens Telecom as chief technology officer ... Fitch Group appoints from IBM's Red Hat Heidi Lanford as chief data officer ... Cerberus Cyber Sentinel taps Bryce Hancock, ex-BeyondTrust, for chief operating officer ... RTI's Blustream names Jason Dominique, ex-Adept Audio, and Jason Fitzgerald, from Nortek Control, to both lead its new U.S. division.
Incompas board elects Brian Worthen, CEO of Mammoth Networks, to move to treasurer ... Netflix appoints Econet Group Chairman Strive Masiyiwa to the board, which Susan Rice leaves, effective Jan. 20, to run White House Domestic Policy Council ... Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s board appoints as chair Ramin Massoumi, Iteris; vice chair is Washington State Department of Transportation Secretary Roger Millar; and Phil Silver of Amazon Web Services becomes a new board member.
Space Foundation's new at-large board member is retired aerospace executive and ex-NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson, for three-year term ... Tech Data board adds independent directors Nayaki Nayyar, Ivanti, and Tod Nielsen, FinancialForce ... On Semiconductor adds former Integrated Device Technology CEO Greg Waters and ex-Maxim Chief Financial Officer Bruce Kiddoo to the board; Emmanuel Hernandez retires from the board after 16 years ... Cloudentity taps cybersecurity expert Jim Pflaging, Cynergy Partners, for its board.