Communications Personals

FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks plans resigning this spring ... President Donald Trump appoints Adam Cassady, formerly chief of staff to FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, as acting assistant secretary of commerce-communications and information and acting NTIA administrator; once an assistant secretary is sworn in, Cassady becomes NTIA principal deputy assistant secretary and deputy administrator ... Broadcasters Foundation of America elects to board: Kristin Cantrell, Seven Mountains Media and CapCity Communications; Kate Riley, America’s Public Television Stations; and Peter Smyth, formerly Greater Media … Synthetic aperture radar firm Synspective names Kumar Navulur, formerly GeoCognition, CEO and president, Synspective USA … Crest Hill Advisors taps Victoria Flood, ex-Mehlman Consulting, as partner.