Communications Personals
Alion Science and Technology adds Christopher Zember, ex-DOD think tank Center for Technology and National Security Policy, as chief technology officer ... Ericsson, moving chief HR officer to Sweden, said Senior Vice President-Chief HR Officer Bina Chaurasia, based in California, resigns effective Nov. 15, when MajBritt Arfert becomes acting chief HR officer ... Cognizant Technology Solutions moves Raj Mehta to president, succeeding Gordon Coburn, resigned ... Microsoft starts Microsoft AI and Research Group, moving computer scientist Harry Shum to lead it; group is joined by Information Platform, Cortana and Bing, and Ambient Computing and Robotics teams led by David Ku, Derrick Connell and Vijay Mital, respectively.
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Arnt Arvik, ex-Ascom Network Testing, joins Pctel as vice president-Americas sales and engineering services for RF solutions ... McClatchy moves Andrew Pergam to vice president-video and new ventures, new position; he continues running The Video Lab ... QTS Realty Trust, data center and cloud services company, adds Steve Bloom, ex-ProBuild, as chief people officer ... Ignition Partners, business software venture capital firm, hires Preeti Rathi, ex-Opus Capital, as principal.
CompTIA, working with the California Department of Technology and tech associations to form Vendor Advisory Council of the CDT Governance Council, names committee members from state government including Amy Tong, of CDT and also state chief information officer, and Chris Cruz, CDT ... Lobbyist registrations: Computer programming firm Report IT, Ridge Policy Group, effective Sept. 1 ... Major County Sheriffs' Association, Brooks Bawden, on issues including public safety communications, effective Aug. 1 ... Garmin, Sidley Austin, effective July 25.