Communications Personals
Rob Alderfer, who led CableLabs technology policy and standards strategy, joins Charter Communications as vice president-technology policy ... Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel also announces FCC retirement (see this section, June 18 issue of this publication) of Wireline Bureau telecom broadband analyst Talmage Cox ... Ofcom appoints Alexa Smart Home International General Manager Sachin Jogia as chief technology officer, effective in October.
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President Joe Biden to nominate ex-Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-N.M., for undersecretary-rural development, Department of Agriculture ... Senate OKs by unanimous consent Chris Inglis as national cyber director, which House Homeland Security Committee ranking member John Katko, R-N.Y., notes is a newly created post ... Riverbed advances Dan Smoot to president-CEO ... Quantcast adds Valerie Junger as chief people officer; she’s ex-Hillspire, which works on investment items for Eric and Wendy Schmidt.
SentinelOne adds Oracle’s Siggi Petursson as vice president-customer-centric engineering and Martin Matula from Avast as vice president-engineering, Czech Republic site lead ... Online marketplace OfferUp hires Todd Dunlap from Booking.com, also former Microsoft, as CEO, replacing Nick Huzar, who remains president and chair and adds chief product officer role ... Fox Corp. elects William Burck to the board; he's managing partner at Quinn Emanuel ... LegalZoom.com appoints Adobe Chief Financial Officer John Murphy to its board.
Space & Satellite Professionals International board appoints Nicole Robinson, Ursa Space Systems, as SSPI chair and Katherine Gizinski, ManSat, as president; membership elects new directors for three-year terms beginning July 1 Julie Bettinger, ST Engineering iDirect; Josef Bogosian, Boeing; Negar Feher, Momentus; James Hinds, Airbus OneWeb Satellites; Marie-Pierre Pluvinage, Airbus US Space & Defense; James Trevelyan, Speedcast; Mark Witsaman, Globalstar; and Elias Zaccack, SES.