California State Senate confirms Karen Douglas as Public Utilities Commission member (see 2212230042) … Anne Veigle says she left FCC to become International Telecommunication Union’s senior communications adviser … LG Ad Solutions names Zenapse’s Michael Hudes president-CEO and adds him to its board; Chief Operating Officer Adam Sexton relinquishes his acting CEO role ... Provenir, supplier of AI-powered risk decisioning software, taps Builder.ai’s Andres Elizondo, also former Rackspace Technology, as chief financial officer ... OpenText names Shannon Bell, ex-Rogers Communications, executive vice president-chief digital officer and adds her to its executive leadership team.
Conversational AI company Krista names Paylocity’s Michael Haske CEO, succeeding John Michelsen, remaining on Krista’s board and continuing as chief product officer ... SAP names Microsoft’s Walter Sun global head-AI ... DXC Technology names IBM’s Howard Boville executive vice president and global lead-applications services and AI ... Chipmaker Alphawave Semi adds GlobalFoundries Chief Financial Officer David Reeder to its board.
Akin adds Mike Mineiro, ex-House Science, Space and Technology Committee, also former White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as senior counsel in its D.C. telecom, media and technology practice ... Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) promotes Public Utility Commissioner Stephen DeFrank to chairman, replacing Gladys Brown Dutrieuille, whose tenure as PUC commissioner ended with the confirmation of Kimberly Barrow (see 2308300037) … DataVisor, AI-powered fraud and risk platform, names Socure’s Kevin McWey chief revenue officer.
Wireless Infrastructure Association names Karmen Rajamani, ex-Crown Castle, vice president-government affairs, to be effective Tuesday … ACA promotes, effective Friday, Stacey Leech to vice president-member services; Tomeika Slappy to manager-member services in addition to her present duties as executive assistant to the CEO; and Nathan Penrod to director-digital and social media … The Battle Group names principal Torben Voetmann president … Warner Bros. Discovery taps Mark Thompson, former New York Times Co. president-CEO and ex-BBC director-general, as CNN Worldwide chairman-CEO, effective Oct. 9 ... CNN names Mark Thompson, former New York Times Co. president-CEO, CNN Worldwide chairman-CEO … Fleet Space names Isa Notermans, ex-Airtasker, as chief people officer … Emmis President-Programming Rick Cummings announces his retirement, effective Friday; he will remain a consultant.
Ted Hearn leaves ACA Connects as communications vice president, with his LinkedIn saying he’s publishing Policy Band … Globalstar names Xcom Labs founder Paul Jacobs, also ex-Qualcomm, CEO, effective immediately, in conjunction with Globalstar’s agreement to license key Xcom technologies (see 2308290003); Jacobs replaces former CEO David Kagan, retiring; Xcom Chief Technology Officer Matt Grob and Chief Scientist Peter Black also join Globalstar, also effective immediately, as will Vice President-Wireless Tamer Kadous and Vice President-Engineering Daaman Hejmadi, effective after they complete a transition period with Xcom ... Brightspeed promotes Chief Operating Officer Tom Maguire to CEO; current CEO Bob Mudge becomes executive chair; Manny Sampedro hired from Verizon to succeed Maguire as COO; all effective Nov. 1.
Charter Communications promotes Meg Hall to senior vice president-corporate software … Expel security operations provider names Yonni Shelmerdine, ex-SentinelOne, chief product officer.
DigitalOcean, cloud computing platform for startups and small businesses, says Yancey Spruill will depart as CEO and board member when a successor is found, and it names lead independent director Warren Adelman executive chairman, effective immediately ... Nebula streaming service names YouTuber Sam Denby chief content officer ... Advertising measurement firm MarketCast names Kantar’s Marisa McMahon head-client service, technology and platforms ... Qualys adds Tom Berquist, Cloud Software Group chief financial officer, to its board.
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission appoints Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry’s Jennifer Berrier as executive director, effective Sept. 11 … RiskOptics, cyber risk management company, names Chief Strategy Officer Rob Ellis acting CEO, replacing former CEO-Chief Product Officer Michael Maggio ... Cybersecurity company Cyemptive Technologies names retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jason Huff chief operating officer-security operations ... Global media agency Assembly names GroupM’s Greg Shickle its first chief activation officer, Europe ... Fiber internet company Lux Speed promotes Stephanie Pittman to director-project management.
Airvine, developer of wireless backhaul system for indoor connectivity, names Dave Robison, ex-Cisco, chief revenue officer ... CISO Global, managed cybersecurity and compliance company, names Gary Perkins, former chief information security officer for the province of British Columbia, as CISO ... SOptions Technology, cloud-enabled managed services company, names former Transaction Network Services executive Scott Feagans senior vice president-sales engineering ... Chipmaker onsemi adds inventor Christina Lampe-Onnerud, former co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy, to its board, effective Sept. 1 ... Cresta, generative AI company, names Gong’s Alex Cramer senior vice president-sales; he was Cresta vice president-sales in 2020 and 2021 ... mart eMobility taps Manoj Kohli, ex-SoftBank India, as chairman ... Telephone and Data Systems adds Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Vicki Villacrez to its board.
FTC Chair Lina Khan names Henry Liu, ex-Covington & Burling, as director-Competition Bureau, succeeding Holly Vedova, retiring (see 2308220046) … Diana Moss, ex-American Antitrust Institute, joins Progressive Policy Institute as vice president and director-competition policy …American Arbitration Association names vLex’s Steve Errick, also ex-LexisNexis, senior vice president-chief development officer; Errick also will fill those roles for AAA’s international division, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, focusing on projects on impact of changing technology and AI on alternative dispute resolution.