Arteria AI, digital documentation infrastructure company, names Goldman Sachs’ Donna Mansfield a strategic account director ... Pantheon, website operations platform for developers, designers and marketers, names ZoomInfo’s John Gardiner chief operating and chief financial officer ... SafeGuard Cyber, security and compliance solutions platform for communication-based threats, promotes Scott Windfelder to chief revenue officer ... Semperis, identity-driven cyber resilience company, hires Symantec’s Mike DeGaetano as chief revenue officer ... Mitel names ServiceMax’s Sophie Ames executive vice president-chief people officer ... Eastern Communications names McKinsey & Co.’s Thomas Alessi vice president-transformation.

Comcast promotes Meena Soleiman to senior vice president-technical operations and engineering, Comcast Cable’s Northeast Division ... 8x8 names Freshworks’ Bruno Bertini chief marketing officer ... Evercore, investment banking advisory firm, adds Goldman Sachs’ Nick Pomponi as a senior managing director-technology group ... Integral Ad Science, media measurement and optimization platform, names Affinity Solutions’ Yossi Almani chief legal officer ... Oorbit Gaming and Entertainment names CNBC and MSNBC founder Tom Rogers executive chairman ... Business Roundtable elects Cisco Chair-CEO Chuck Robbins as chair for two-year term, succeeding Mary Barra, effective Jan. 1; Barra remains on board … Avanade, Microsoft cloud provider, names Karthik Narain, Accenture’s group CEO-technology, board chair, succeeding Emma McGuigan, leaving Avanade board after four years in the role.

Kathleen Burke​​​​​​​ leaving as policy counsel at Public Knowledge, to join FCC as special counsel to the general counsel starting Sept. 25 ... Sinclair Senior Vice President-Technology Mark Aitken, also president of Sinclair’s One Media 3.0 subsidiary, is named SMPTE fellow, will be honored at SMPTE’s 2023 Media Technology Summit Gala next month in Los Angeles ... Cogeco taps Alimentation Couche-Tard’s Valery Zamuner as senior vice president and chief corporate affairs and legal officer, effective Monday ... New York Times Co. hires Paramount Global’s Anthony DiClemente as senior vice president-investor relations, effective Monday ... Roblox, connection and communication platform, adds former WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar to its board ... Inseego, 5G edge cloud solutions company, taps former Absolute Software executive Steven Gatoff as chief financial officer, succeeding Robert Barbieri, leaving Inseego to return to his consulting business ... Lisa Herring, incoming president of Propel Center, innovation and learning hub founded by Apple and Southern Co., named strategic adviser to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona ... Investment bank Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. hires William Blair & Co.’s Scott Mattson and Madison Park Group’s Michael Magruder as managing directors to lead establishment of its new tech vertical ...

Department of Homeland Security announces Eric Hysen as its first chief AI officer; he continues to serve as chief information officer (see 2309140050) ... Grace Koh, formerly of Nokia, who headed the U.S. delegation to ITU World Radiocommunication Conference in 2019, becomes Ciena’s vice president-government relations.

DLA Piper announces Houston-based partner Christian Ford to head new space exploration and innovation practice … Web3 Foundation taps supervisory board member Fabian Gompf, also former Parity Technologies, as CEO, succeeding Bertrand Perez, moving into an adviser role ... Ians Research, cybersecurity research and advisory firm, names Gartner’s Mark Clauss chief product officer ... Cineverse, streaming technology and entertainment company, promotes Mark Lindsey to chief financial officer, effective Thursday, succeeding current CFO John Canning, whose employment agreement expired Wednesday.

Digital Media Association hires Graham Davies, ex-Ivors Academy, president-CEO, beginning this fall with plans to relocate from the U.K. to the U.S. … Entertainment Software Association hires Christianna Barnhart, former senior counsel to Senate Commerce Committee, as senior vice president-government affairs ... New Motion Picture Association hires: Alivia Roberts, from office of Vice President Kamala Harris, and Katherine Grayson, from office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., both join as directors-federal government affairs; Charlie Schonberger, from National Governors Association, named manager-federal affairs and trade policy, effective Sept. 18 ... Guidepost Solutions, security and technology consultancy, adds Christopher Doss, ex-FBI, as senior managing director and Matthew Corwin, ex-NYDIG, as managing director to its cybersecurity consulting practice group; Doss will also serve as the practice group's leader.

Motion Picture Association  appoints LinkedIn’s Michael Rodriguez, former assistant U.S. attorney, as senior litigation counsel and director-Americas, content protection … Wilkinson Barker names Twilio’s Adam Jorde as head-government affairs … Cisco announces Nicole Isaac, ex-Google, vice president-global public policy … Semtech, cloud connectivity services provider, hires MKS Instruments' Mark Lin as executive vice president-chief financial officer, succeeding Emeka Chukwu, effective no later than Oct. 4 ... Electronic Frontier Foundation announces Erica Astrella, Parkwood Entertainment, and a University of Washington professor Yoshi Kohno as board members … TechBridge, nonprofit specializing in tech training, adds Tonya Bryant, Southern Co. vice president-technology, to its board ... Tucows elects Gigi Sohn, American Association for Public Broadband executive director, to its board.

Frontier Technology promotes Chief Financial Officer Jose Hidalgo to president ... KPMG promotes Steve Chase to vice chair of its new AI and digital innovation group, and names Atif Zaim to succeed Chase as head of its consulting practice; both effective Oct. 1 ... New hires at Stability AI, generative AI company: Ozden Onder, ex-Wildlife Studios, as chief people officer; Jordan Valdes, ex-IBM, as vice president-communications and community; Scott Trowbridge, ex-Circle and WeWork, as vice president-business development; and Ben Brooks, ex-Google, Coinbase and Uber, as global head-public policy ... Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) appoints Annie Kuether, a former state representative, to the Kansas Corporation Commission and reappoints Andrew French as commissioner; if confirmed by the state Senate, Kuether’s term would begin Oct. 3, French’s new term would begin March 16 … Science Applications International Corp. adds Dana Deasy, former DOD chief information officer under President Donald Trump, to its board, expanding it to 11 members ... Enghouse Systems, enterprise software provider, adds Magnet Forensics General Counsel Vivian Leung to its board.

Former Flatiron School cybersecurity instructor and solo attorney Joseph Gawlowicz joins Mullen Coughlin as an associate-incident response practice … Optimum appoints as vice presidents-general managers Kathleen Preston, from Cox Communications, for West Pacific Area, Elton Hart, ex-Comcast Business, for Mid Atlantic Area, and Vic Pascarelli, ex-Comcast, for Northeast Area; it also moves Michael Shaffer to vice president-GM, Mid Central Area … Cogeco names former Bell Canada executive Tim Dinesen senior vice president-chief technology officer ...

NTIA moves Sean Conway to deputy chief counsel … TechNet promotes Federal Policy Manager Meghan Pearce to federal policy director …Hearst promotes Gerry McGavick to vice president-sales, Hearst Television … Casa Systems appoints Cisco’s Colin Kincaid chief product officer and Phil Paro, ex-Tomorrow.io, chief accounting officer … Speedcast names James Feger, from F5, chief technology officer … Darwinium, digital security and fraud prevention company, names Outseer’s Leah Evanski chief commercial officer ... MixMode, AI cybersecurity company, names ClearData’s Bob Pratt, also ex-Splunk, senior vice president-product ... Data center developer CyrusOne promotes Jim Roche to senior vice president-engineering ... JFrog names Shanti Ariker, ex-Zendesk, chief legal officer ... President Joe Biden nominates Miriam Hellreich for reappointment to CPB for term expiring Jan. 31, 2030.