Computer & Communications Industry Association names economics consultant and policy expert Matthew Sinclair, former chief economic adviser-10 Downing Street, senior director of its new London office ... Sony Interactive Entertainment President-CEO Jim Ryan to retire in March; Hiroki Totoki, Sony Group president-chief operating officer and chief financial officer, will become SIE chairman in October, and will be appointed interim CEO of SIE, effective April 1, in addition to his current Sony Group roles ... Sony Interactive Entertainment President-CEO Jim Ryan to retire in March; Hiroki Totoki, Sony Group president-chief operating officer and chief financial officer, will become SIE chairman in October, and will be appointed interim CEO of SIE, effective April 1, in addition to his current Sony Group roles.
NASA names Charity Weeden, ex-Astroscale, associate administrator leading Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy … Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) appoints Nevada Tax Commissioner Randy Brown, ex-AT&T, to the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada … Sidus Space promotes board member Leonardo Riera to board chair, succeeding founder Carol Craig, who remains CEO, and promotes Jared Novick to chief operating officer ... Cybersecurity platform Secuonix hires Skybox Security’s Haggai Polak as chief product officer ... Ipsos MMA names Comcast’s Charlie Hinton, also ex-AT&T, vice president-analytic consulting ... Dell Technologies adds former Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf to its board; Simon Patterson, managing director of Silver Lake, resigns his board seat.
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez appoints Deena Shetler, deputy chief of staff for administration-Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel’s office, as acting chief of staff and legal adviser for media and international; Edyael Casaperalta, chief of staff-Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, as acting legal adviser for Wireless, Public Safety and Consumer Protection; Hayley Steffen, legal adviser to bureau chief-Wireline Bureau, as acting legal adviser for Wireline and Space; and Anna Holland, staff assistant to bureau chief-Wireline Bureau, as acting executive assistant … Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo names Sean McDevitt, consulting firm Arthur D. Little partner, FirstNet Authority board member (see 2309260042) ... Department of State announces Patricia Gruber, ex-Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global, as science and technology adviser to the secretary of state, heading the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser.
Incompas adds Jeff Garte, Boldyn Networks president-Northeast business, to its board ... Global Satellite Operators Association names ManSat Chief Financial Officer Rachel Beattie its new treasurer ... Universal Music Group announces Vice Chair Anna Jones, former Hearst Magazines U.K. CEO, retiring from its board, effective Sept. 30 ... Live events producer ASM Global names Live Nation’s Alex Bowen vice president-live entertainment ... Instacart adds Sequoia Capital partner Ravi Gupta to its board; Gupta was Instacart’s chief financial officer and chief operating officer before leaving for Sequoia in 2019 ...
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced the promotion of Will Wiquist to deputy director-communications (see 2309210046).
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces additions of Johannes Bauer, on leave from Michigan State University, as chief economist (see 2309210034), and Jonathan Uriarte, ex-office of Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as press secretary, succeeding Paloma Perez, who rises to communications director; and promotion of Will Wiquist to deputy director-communications, succeeding Anne Veigle (see 2309050069); and departures of longtime staffers Michael Carowitz, most recently deputy chief-Enforcement Bureau, and Tracey Weisler, senior adviser-International Bureau, who's taking a teaching position at Stanford University; Rosenworcel also announces Office of Economics and Analytics’ Lester Roberts as Excellence in Engineering Award winner for work on making emergency alert system more resilient and Media Bureau’s John Gabrysch as the Excellence in Economic Analysis Award winner for work in developing tools and methods for analyzing interference in the AM radio service.
RapidDeploy cloud platform for public safety names Dami Bullock, ex-Ande Corp., chief revenue officer and David Stack, ex-RepTrak, chief financial officer … AI marketing platform Phrasee names Dan Head, ex-Braze, CEO; founding CEO Parry Malm remains on the board ... Data protection company Commvault names Microsoft’s Sarv Saravanan its first chief customer officer.
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 ...