Jamie Barnett, Viasat’s vice president-global communications solutions, ex-FCC, says he’s leaving the company, continuing as adjunct professor in the University of Mississippi Center for Intelligence and Security Studies …Tegna hires Vox Media’s Lauren Fisher, also former Hulu, as senior vice president-chief legal officer, effective Nov. 27 ... Anterix, 900 MHz licensed spectrum holder, taps Wassim Akhdar, former GE Digital Energy, Sentient Energy and Varentec executive, as senior vice president-product and innovation ... Aptum, cloud solutions provider, hires Michael Stephens, ex-Rackspace Technology and ex-CenturyLink, as vice president-partnerships and strategic alliances, EOS Network Foundation’s Patty Fisher as vice president-marketing and David Long, ex-Dell Technologies, as vice president-North America sales; Aptum also promotes Marc Pare to vice president-product from general manager-advisory and consulting services ... Integral Ad Science names Kumaresh Singh, ex-Meta, senior vice president-data science.
Washington State Broadband Office Director Mark Vasconi announces his retirement, effective Dec. 31; Deputy Director Erika Henry will be interim director ... Skyhawk Security appoints Appgate’s Barry Field as chief revenue officer … Family entertainment company WildBrain hires eOne’s Nick Gawne as chief financial officer; named to new WildBrain executive vice president roles in senior management team realignment are Stephanie Betts, content creation; Kate Smith, audience engagement; and Maarten Weck, global partnerships and licensing.
Satellite Industry Association appoints, Aline McNaull, ex-Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, as director-policy … Cox Enterprises moves Vice President Amber Hall to chief compliance and privacy officer ... CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures announces John Kelly, from ABC, as vice president-data journalism, heading newly structured data journalism team, effective Monday … Quickplay cloud providers hires Endemol Shine Group’s Wim Ponnet, also ex-Yahoo, for new European office as president-Europe, Middle East and Africa.
America’s Public Television Stations names Michelle Shanahan, ex-NPR, general counsel … USTelecom names Mariah Wollweber, ex-National Association of Wheat Growers, as senior director-communications … NAB hires Karen Chupka, ex-Consumer Technology Association, to succeed Chris Brown (see 2307100054) as managing director-executive vice president, global connections and events, effective Jan. 1.
Box taps Olivia Nottebohm, ex-Notion, also former Dropbox and Google, as chief operating officer, succeeding Stephanie Carullo ... Wire 3, fiber optic internet provider in Florida, hires Clearwave Fiber’s Kayla Houde as vice president-government affairs ... F5, multicloud application services and security company, adds Tami Erwin, former Verizon Business executive vice president and CEO, to its board, expanding it to 12 members.
CBS Stations moves Aaron Inman and Susie Toma to vice presidents-local sales for, respectively, Western and Eastern states, and promotes Tim Bennett and Morgan Spatafore to vice presidents-agency partnerships and Theo Berenson to vice president-integrated marketing … Media company the Arena Group taps Katie Kulik from CBS as chief revenue officer ... PayPal hires EY’s Jamie Miller, also former Cargill and General Electric, as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Monday, succeeding acting CFO Gabrielle Rabinovitch; PayPal also moves Chief Information Officer Archie Deskus to executive vice president-chief technology officer, succeeding Sri Shivananda, departing company at the end of the year ... Social media company Qyou Media taps Raj Mishra, ex-Triller and ex-TikTok, as group CEO-India operations ... Space systems company Rocket Lab USA adds retired U.S. Space Force Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno to its board.
America’s Public Television Stations CEO Patrick Butler announces he’s retiring, staying through successor’s selection but no later than year-end 2024 (see 2311010050) … Information Technology Industry Council announces Julia Massimino, ex-SoundExchange and former congressional staff, as executive vice president-government affairs … Altiam Digital, security, automation and tech services provider appoints Wayne White, ex-ResultsCX and Avaya, as CEO.
Windstream taps Chairman Paul Sunu as president-CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Tony Thomas, departing from company and vacating his board seat ... BlackBerry announces John Chen will retire as executive chair-CEO, effective Saturday, and taps Richard Lynch, a BlackBerry board member since 2013, and former Verizon chief technology officer, to succeed Chen as board chair, also naming him interim CEO ... Inseego 5G edge cloud company appoints Steve Harmon, ex-Sierra Wireless, as chief revenue officer, newly created role ... Sidus Space promotes Lindsey Waitt to LizzieSat program manager in anticipation of Sidus’ LizzieSat constellation launch with SpaceX beginning in first quarter of 2024; Jamie Adams departs as Sidus chief technology officer and vacates his board seat; with Waitt and others assuming CTO duties, Sidus eliminates the CTO role.
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.
BuzzFeed promotes Executive Vice President-Finance and Treasurer Matt Omer to chief financial officer, effective Nov. 6; current CFO Felicia DellaFortuna leaving BuzzFeed before the end of November ... Adobe adds Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon to its board, expanding it to 12 members.