Geospatial intelligence company Maxar Intelligence hires Riverbed Technology’s Dan Smoot, also former Salesforce, Cisco and VMWare, as CEO, effective Nov. 6; interim CEO Daniel Jablonsky moves to Maxar’s board with Smoot’s arrival ... SmartNews, global information and news discovery company, names co-founder Kaisei Hamamoto CEO, moves outgoing CEO Ken Suzuki to executive chair, both effective Wednesday, and hires Google's Cory Ondrejka, also ex-Meta, as chief technology officer.
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Commvault adds Hathaway Global Strategies President Melissa Hathaway as a strategic adviser and as chairperson for Commvault's newly formed Cyber Resilience Council; Hathaway also was director of the Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force under President George W. Bush, and she also led the Cyberspace Policy Review under President Barack Obama ... Futurum Group acquires Business Podcast Network (BPN), and taps BPN founder and former CEO Cory Johnson as its chief market strategist ... Morgan Murphy Media announces retirement of General Counsel Richard Burns, and the promotion of media attorney Jonathan Allen to the role, both effective Dec. 31; Burns will remain on the company’s board, and is being named a special adviser to the executive team.