Personnel Notes

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has joined the executive council of technology trade group TechNet.

Benioff joins TechNet just a few months after it added Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Oracle President Safra Catz to its executive council's roster. Salesforce.com is already a member of TechNet, but Benioff will now have a hand in shaping the trade group's policy agenda and initiatives. 

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) poached a tech lobby leader to become its new president and chief executive.

Leslie Harris, the president of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), announced on Wednesday that she will step down sometime before March 2014.

CDT's board has appointed a search committee to pick her successor. CDT is an advocacy group that focuses on Internet freedom, online privacy and free expression. 

Harris said she is still determining her next step.

Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plans to serve on Sprint's board of directors handling national security issues, the company announced Friday.

His appointment is conditional on SoftBank, a Japanese company, completing its takeover bid of Sprint.

In order to appease regulators' security concerns, SoftBank agreed to have one member of Sprint's board focus on national security matters. The U.S. government has veto power over the director.

“Excited to get to work growing digital operation,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted.

Chris Wilson, a top lobbyist for technology trade group TechAmerica, has joined Time Warner, the media company announced on Monday. 

He will serve as Time Warner's vice president of public policy, replacing Linda Bloss-Baum, who left to start her own firm.

Wilson was the vice president of federal government affairs for TechAmerica, which lobbies for companies including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook.

Mignon Clyburn, the acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, named her top aides on Thursday.

P. Michele Ellison, currently the chief of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, will serve as Clyburn's chief of staff. Dave Grimaldi, who was Clyburn's chief of staff when she was a commissioner, will be her chief counsel and legal adviser.

Ellison previously served in the general counsel's office, including as the agency's acting general counsel. 

Apple CEO Tim Cook broke the news at the D11 Conference in Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif.

Anna M. Gomez, who recently left the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), has joined Wiley Rein, the law and lobbying firm announced on Monday.

She will work in the firm's Washington office as a partner in its communications practice. The firm lobbied for AT&T, Verizon, CBS, the National Association of Broadcasters and others in the most recent disclosure period.

Gomez had served as the second highest-ranking official at NTIA since 2009. As the deputy assistant secretary for communications and information, she helped oversee the federal government's use of the airwaves, advocated administration policies before state and local governments and advised the White House on telecommunications issues. She worked on the digital television transition and on the planning of the $7 billion nationwide wireless network for first responders.

President Obama on Thursday rounded out his second-term economic team.