Adelstein Hires Interim Staff

FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein has selected his staff: Lisa Zaina will become his Senior Legal Advisor and wireline competition advisor. Adelstein also appointed three interim legal advisors: Eric Einhorn for wireline competition, Barry Ohlson for spectrum and international and Sarah Whitesell for media, and Kevin Venters as Staff Assistant. He said Katherine Lapin is joining his permanent staff as Confidential Assistant.
Zaina was most recently vice president for industry and regulatory affairs and corporate secretary of Shenandoah Telecommunications Company in Edinburg, Va. Prior to joining Shentel, she served as senior counsel and deputy bureau chief for the FCC’s Common Carrier Bureau (now the Wireline Competition Bureau).
Einhorn, interim legal advisor for wireline competition, is currently acting chief of the Telecommunications Access Policy Division of the Wireline Competition Bureau.
Ohlson, interim legal advisor for spectrum and international, is currently the chief of the Policy Division of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.
Whitesell, interim advisor for media issues, has been the associate chief of the Media Bureau and its predecessor, the Cable Services Bureau. Prior to that position, she had been legal advisor on common carrier issues for former Commissioner Gloria Tristani.