Mintz names Reza Dokhanchy, ex-Kirkland & Ellis, a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice … NCTA names Mansoor Abdul Khadir, ex-Democratic National Committee, associate vice president-external affairs, and Michael Pauls, from USTelecom, vice president-government relations.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) appoints Wesley Bennett, commissioner-Department of Local Government Finance, to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, effective June 26; replacing Stefanie Krevda, who stepped down … Public Service Commission of West Virginia promotes Andy Gallagher to communications director … Alan Chartock retires as WAMC Albany president-CEO; Operations and Engineering Director Stacey Rosenberry is interim CEO … CBS Stations promotes Kari Patey to vice president-producer development for 14 CBS local newsrooms across country, new position; she remains vice president-news director, CBS News Minnesota, until successor is found.
RealNetworks promotes Chris Wheaton to president-chief operating officer and chief financial officer; Michael Parham departs as senior vice president-general counsel, effective June 30 ... Cloud-based platform AuditBoard adds former Medallia Chief Financial Officer Roxanne Oulman to its board ... Cybersecurity company Exabeam adds Blue Owl Capital’s Pravin Vazirani to its board ... Identity verification company SecureAuth names former 8x8 CEO Vikram Verma chairman ... BAE Systems adds former Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., to its board ... PlusMusic, adaptive audio AI startup for the gaming industry, adds former Sony Interactive Entertainment executive Shawn Layden to its board ... Cybersecurity vendor SoSafe adds former Palo Alto Networks Chief Marketing Officer Zeynep Inanoglu Ozdemir and Bhagwat Swaroop, Entrust president-digital security solutions, to its board.
American Public Television names PBS Senior Vice President James Dunford president-CEO, effective June 12; he succeeds Cynthia Fenneman, retiring in early June … Former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis returns to Paladin Capital Group as strategic adviser; he was a Paladin managing director for seven years before joining President Joe Biden’s White House ... Harmonic names Lumentum’s Walter Jankovic chief financial officer ... Intelligent connectivity company Boomi names MuleSoft’s Josh Rutberg, also ex-Bain & Co., chief customer officer ... Optiva, supplier of cloud-native revenue management software for the telecommunications industry, names Mobileum’s Michele Campriani chief revenue officer.
Wiley announces former Senate Commerce Committee staffer Crystal Tully as special counsel in the firm’s Telecom, Media and Technology Practice … Data center developer CyrusOne says CFO Katherine Motlagh will leave June 1; Senior Vice President-Finance Michael Schafer becomes interim CFO on Motlagh’s departure while the company launches a search for her permanent successor ... Gray Television promotes Senior Managing Vice President Sandy Breland to executive vice president-chief operating officer, succeeding Bob Smith, retired … Private equity firm Welsh Carson adds Dun & Bradstreet’s Andrew Hausman, also former IDC, as an operating partner-technology group.
Ofinno, R&D lab for wireless communication and video coding technologies, promotes Chief Intellectual Property Officer Kavon Nasabzadeh to CEO; Esmael Dinan, Ofinno CEO since its 2011 founding, moves to chief technology officer ... Science Applications International Corp. names Toni Townes-Whitley, Microsoft president-U.S. regulated industries, its next CEO, and adds her to its board, effective Oct. 2, succeeding Nazzic Keene, who will retire effective Oct. 2; Townes-Whitley’s start date is June 12 as CEO-elect; Keene continues as CEO through Oct. 1, then becomes adviser through Feb. 2 ... Opsera, development and operations platform, hires HMG Ventures Managing Partner Patty Hatter, also ex-Palo Alto Networks, as president-chief operating officer.
Industry Data Exchange Association names Crissty Carrington, ex-Lonestar Lighting and Technology, IDEA Connector director-business development … Spire Global announces resignation of Chief Financial Officer Thomas Krywe, effective Sept. 30 … Data security company Dasera names Terry Hill, ex-Fastly and former AT&T, chief revenue officer ... Performed Line Products networking company promotes Ryan Ruhlman to president, replacing his father, Robert Ruhlman, who remains chairman-CEO ... Cybersecurity company Stairwell names Eric Foster, ex-Cyderes, vice president-business development ... Managed security provider Security Validation names Jonathan Hale, ex-NuArx, chief technology officer ... Data center developer EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure hires Digital Realty’s John Bean as chief legal officer.
CTIA names David Valdez, ex-Meta, vice president-privacy and cybersecurity … District of Columbia Council confirms Heather McGaffin, Office of Unified Communications deputy director, as OUC’s director (see 2305170017) … Zscaler cloud security company names Salesforce’s Syam Nair chief technology officer and executive vice president-R&D, effective May 24 … Render Networks, geospatial network construction company, names Nokia’s Don Wadas chief revenue officer ... Juniper Networks taps Palo Alto Networks' Jean English, also ex-NetApp, as senior vice president-chief marketing officer ... Riedel Networks taps former Euro Media Group executive Timo Koch as chief commercial officer-media division.
FTC Policy Adviser Maurice Stucke says he’s starting new post as nongovernmental adviser, International Competition Network … Orange Business names Usman Javaid, ex-Amazon Web Services, chief products and marketing officer, and BT Global’s Hriday Ravindranath chief technology and information officer ... NWN Carousel, cloud communications service provider, promotes Andrea Morrison to chief people officer ... Microdisplay developer Kopin names Iwan Dodd, ex-Gooch & Housego, vice president-business development ... Cloud connectivity company Connectbase names Edison Smith, ex-Telnyx, vice president-sales, Europe, the Middle East and Africa ... CesiumAstro, space-based communications solutions company, adds former Volkswagen Group of America CEO Hinrich Woebcken as senior executive adviser ... CISO Global names Chief Financial Officer Deb Smith to board … Identity verification platform Trulioo adds former LinkedIn General Counsel Erika Rottenberg to its board.
Source Defense protection and data privacy compliance company founding member Ross Hogan, ex-HUB Security, returns as CEO … Sarcos Technology and Robotics names former Boeing executive and current Sarcos board member Laura Peterson interim president-CEO, replacing outgoing President-CEO Kiva Allgood ...Digital engineering company Persistent Systems names Wipro’s Gurvinder Sahni chief marketing officer … Lodestone Security names Sophos’ Erin Malone chief revenue officer ... Cloud security company Lacework hires Lea Kissner, ex-Twitter and former Apple, as chief information security officer.