Justin Cole, U.S. corporate communications manager for Indian telecom and outsourcing giant Tata Communications, has joined the Federal Communications Commission as press secretary.
Neil Grace, a Burson-Marsteller alum who held the press secretary post at FCC since May 2011, is moving to a senior communications advisory role under chairman Julius Genachowski. He was director of B-M’s issues and crisis unit in D.C, handling tech and telecom clients.
Cole joins the FCC after a year and a half at Tata. He was previously a journalist, working as an energy and business reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, AFX News and Agence-France Presse, before moving to Fitch Ratings in an editorial corporate comms. role.
Tammy Sun remains director communications at the FCC.
Genachowski, a Harvard Law School classmate of Barack Obama, is in his third year as FCC chair.