T-Mobile US appoints board member Srinivasan Gopalan COO, new post, effective March 1 … The National Association of Broadcasters appoints to its radio board: Henry Hinton, Inner Banks Media; Ignacio Meyer, Univision; and Shoshana Shapiro, Cumulus Media; filling vacancies ... Southwire creates three new posts, promoting Juan Hernandez to executive vice president-residential and commercial group; adding Rohan Kelkar, ex-Schneider Electric, as executive vice president-utility and industrial group; and expanding role of Veronica Braker as executive vice president-operations … National OnDemand taps Janet Sanford, formerly USIC, as vice president-national strategic partnerships, new post … Telephone and Data Systems names Walter Carlson president and CEO, succeeding LeRoy Carlson, who becomes vice chair, new post …
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appoints: Tom Sullivan as acting chief, Office of International Affairs, replacing Troy Tanner; Catherine Matraves as acting chief, Office of Economics and Analytics; Katie Gorscak as acting director, Office of Media Relations, replacing Paloma Perez Christie … Salt Point Strategies names Anderson Helton, ex-staffer for Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Milla Anderson, ex-FCC, as vice presidents … FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks moves Wireline Bureau's Kiara Ortiz to acting legal adviser, replacing Anderson.
Adastra names Cosmin Tudor, former R Systems, as sales country lead-Romania … Communications tech provider BCN promotes Michael Ginsburg to senior vice president-sales, hires Dan Solomon, ex-Net2Phone, as vice president-sales, Western region … Wireless Support adds Perry Solomon, Solomon Growth Advisors, to advisory board … Industry Data Exchange Association names Patrick Knight, ex-Rexel, president, effective Jan. 6 … Stelia appoints David Hughes, ex-Genesis Cloud, as vice president-engineering.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr promotes Jacob Lewis to acting general counsel, replacing Michelle Ellison; Patrick Webre to acting chief, Enforcement Bureau, replacing Peter Hyun; Eduard Bartholme to acting chief, Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, replacing Alejandro Roark; Erin Boone to acting chief, Media Bureau, replacing Holly Saurer. Carr moves Joel Taubenblatt to acting chief, Wireless Bureau; Trent Harkrader to acting chief, Wireline Bureau; Debra Jordan to acting chief, Public Safety Bureau.
New FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to keep Greg Watson as his chief of staff; he names Scott Delacourt, ex-Wiley, chief of staff of the commission; Adam Chan, ex-Boyden Gray, national security senior counsel; Anthony Patrone, ex-NTIA, legal adviser; Matt Mittelstaedt, ex-office of then-Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, director-office of legislative affairs; Arpan Sura, former senior counsel-Wireless Bureau, senior counsel-spectrum and technology; Danielle Thumann, Carr's legal adviser, becomes senior counsel-wireline, public safety and consumer protection; Erin Boone, former chief of staff and wireless adviser to FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, becomes Carr's senior counsel-media and enforcement; Wireline Bureau's Callie Coker, moves to legal adviser-chairman's office; Drema Johnson continues as Carr's confidential assistant; Stephanie Chambless, ex-House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump, named special counsel-Office of the General Counsel ... GeoLinks names David Gray, ex-Splice, channel sales leader … Broadband telecommunications services company Boston Omaha adds David Graff, ex-Hudl, to board.
O-RAN Alliance reelects board chair Abdurazak Mudesir, Deutsche Telekom, and elects board directors and alternate directors for two-year terms: Yigal Elbaz (director), Brian Daly (alternate director), AT&T; Eben Albertyn, Jingyi Zhou, Boost Mobile; Yuhong Huang, Chich-Lin I, China Mobile; Yue Wang, Qingtian Wang, China Telecom; Abdurazak Mudesir, Petr Ledl, Deutsche Telekom; Takuya Sawada, Masaaki Koga, KDDI; Takaaki Sato, Masafumi Masuda NTT DOCOMO; Claire Chauvin, Atoosa Hatefi, Orange; Sharad Sriwastawa, Awn Muhammad, Rakuten Mobile; Ryuji Wakikawa, Alex Jinsung Choi, SoftBank; Enrique Blanco, Jose Luis Espla, Telefonica; Andrea Calvi, Marco Caretti, TIM; Michael Irizarry, Narothum Saxena, UScellular; Steven Rice, Edward Diaz, Verizon; Nadia Benabdallah, Francisco Martin, Vodafone.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo names to Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee: Reza Arefi, Apple; Andy Bater, American Farm Bureau Federation’s National Technology Committee; Donna Bethea-Murphy, Inmarsat; Mary Brown, Salt Point Strategies; Hilary Cain, Alliance for Automotive Innovation; Michael Calabrese, New American Foundation’s Wireless Future Project; Stephen Devine, APCO International; Thomas Dombrowsky, T-Mobile; Michele Farquhar, Hogan Lovells; Mark Gibson, CommScope; Kalpak Gude, Amazon; Tim Harrington, Ultra-Wideband Alliance; Carolyn Kahn, Mitre; Colleen King, Charter; Jennifer McCarthy, consultant; Amit Mukhopadhyay, Nokia Bell Labs; Karl Nebbia, Huntington Ingalls; Aspasia Paroutsas, Qualcomm; Louis Peraertz, Wireless Internet Service Providers Association; Brian Regan, Quadra Partners; Dennis Roberson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Andrew Roy, Aviation Spectrum Resources; Jesse Russell, incNetworks; Sanyogita Shamsunder, NextNav; Jeff Stewart, AT&T; Christopher Szymanski, Broadcom; Rikin Thakker, NCTA; Bryan Tramont, Wilkinson Barker Knauer; Jennifer Warren, Lockheed Martin; and Robert Weller, NAB.
FCC retirements: Rosemary Harold and David Snavely, Media Bureau; William Dever, Office of the General Counsel; Joyce Jones, Wireless Bureau, Kim Wild, Lyle Ishida and Brian Ulmer, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; Anthony Serafini, Office of Engineering and Technology; and Katie King, Wireline Competition Bureau... National Content and Technology Cooperative names Christy Drummond, ex-Windstream, vice president-marketing and communications ... Gary Hanson named chairman, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission, succeeding Kristie Fiegen, who remains a commissioner; Chris Nelson elected vice chairman ... Warner Bros. Discovery names to board SoFi Technologies CEO Anthony Noto and IAC CEO Joey Levin ... Communications technology firm BCN promotes Ryan Kelly to chief revenue officer, Jeanne Duca to chief marketing officer ... Trellix expands Kurt Mills' role to senior vice president-global channel chief … HP names Carol Surface, ex-Apple, as chief people officer, succeeding Kristen Ludgate, retired; Surface begins March 24.
CTIA promotes Sarah Leggin to vice president-regulatory affairs, Christiaan Segura to assistant vice president-regulatory affairs, Tina Lisenby to assistant vice president-human resources and operations, Anderson Sullivan to director-industry marketing and communications, DeVaughn Joyner to director-desktop and user support and Rebecca Kalant to senior art director ... ACA elevates Brian Hurley to senior vice president-legal and regulatory affairs ... Telstra International names Sarah Mills, ex-Vodafone UK, as global head-wholesale.
Comtech names Kenneth Traub, ex-Delta Value, as president and CEO ... Telesat promotes Michel Forest to chief technology officer, succeeding David Wendling, and hires Asit Tandon, ex-Rogers Communications, as chief network and information officer ... Salem Media Group appoints Richard von Gnechten, WaterStone, and former U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci to its board ... Atkore promotes John Pregenzer to COO, retaining role as president-electrical.