Former FCC chair Julius Genachowski is joining the Carlyle group, a private equity firm. Genachowski, appointed as FCC head in 2009 by President Obama, helped regulate these sectors for several years; His policy goals focused on creating a nationwide broadband network and developing net neutrality rules for internet service providers. While Genachowski worked at the FCC in the 1990s, he spent the decade before his chair appointment in private industry.