Frontier hires Vodafone’s Vishal Dixit as chief strategy officer ... Hearst Television’s Jessica Mathies moves to Hearst Media Production Group as vice president-development … Chipmaker Semtech hires Intel’s Julie McGee as senior vice president-chief marketing officer ... Accenture promotes Paolo Dal Cin to global head-Accenture Security, and adds him to its global management committee, effective May 1 ... CTIA names Consumer Cellular CEO Ed Evans to board, as company becomes association member … Marvell adds Experian Chief Information Security Officer Sara Andrews to its board, and says incumbent director Bethany Mayer won’t seek reelection at its June 23 annual meeting.
Husch Blackwell names Brendan McCommas, ex-Patent and Trademark Office, senior counsel-Intellectual Property practice and Technology, Manufacturing and Transportation industry group … Nextlink Internet hires Wireless ISP Association’s Claude Aiken as chief strategy officer and chief legal officer, effective May 2 ... Imax promotes Natasha Fernandes to chief financial officer, succeeding Joseph Sparacio, who rejoined Imax last year as interim CFO ... Nexstar Digital taps Gamut’s Dennis Cook, also ex-Sony Pictures Television and Disney, as senior vice president-sales marketing.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr names Wireline Bureau’s Michael Nemcik his acting legal adviser, filling in for Danielle Thumann while’s she on maternity leave … Liberty Latin America taps Aamir Hussain from Verizon Business as chief technology and product officer ... Salem Media Group promotes David Bingham to vice president-operations and business development, Salem Web Network ... Semiconductor solutions company Tessolve hires former Intel executive Huzefa Cutlerywala as senior vice president-worldwide sales and marketing and Madhav Rao, ex-HCL Technologies, as senior vice president-very large-scale integration design.
“Instant commerce” platform Gopuff hires SoFi’s Maria Renz, also ex-Amazon, as senior vice president-North America, effective in May ... Pixelworks nominates Synaptics Chief Financial Officer Dean Butler, also former Marvell Technology, for election to its board at May 12 annual meeting ... Wireless infrastructure company Mobilite rehires Chris Zack as senior vice president-wireless solutions after two-year stint at Airwavz Solutions ... Blockchain company Upshot taps GHCO’s Orestis Tsinalis as head-data and machine learning ... Geico hires former Viacom executive Damon Burrell as chief marketing officer ...
Commerce Department appoints 27 members to the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (see 2204140052), including Google Vice Chair James Manyika, Amazon Web Services Vice President-Database, Analytics and Machine Learning Swami Sivasubramanian, Microsoft Vice President Ashley Llorens, IBM Chief Privacy Officer Christina Montgomery and BSA|The Software Alliance CEO Victoria Espinel.
Sidus Space names Teresa Burchfield, ex-Tupperware, chief financial officer … Cable One promotes Todd Koetje to CFO, effective July 1, succeeding Steven Cochran, who will remain a senior vice president during July, and then is expected to be a consultant to the company through early January ... Digital media company Quotient Technology hires Yuneeb Khan, ex-Nielsen, as CFO, principal accounting officer and treasurer, effective by July.
Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter appoints Brent Lutes, ex-the Brattle Group, as Copyright Office’s first chief economist … California Cable & Telecommunications Association announces Janus Norman, from California Medical Association, as president, effective April 25 ... Inseego, 5G and IoT device-to-cloud solutions provider, announces OnwardMobility’s Chuck Becher as senior vice president-general manager, carrier solutions ... Vecima Networks names Heather Asher from Global Payments general counsel-corporate secretary ...
SatixFy Communications appoints co-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer Yoav Leibovitch to also be interim CEO following Friday death of founder, co-Chairman and CEO Yoel Gat; new CEO, not yet announced, to begin June 26.
USTelecom promotes Lynn Follansbee to vice president-strategic initiatives and partnerships … Discovery moving Jon Steinlauf to chief U.S. advertising sales officer-Warner Bros. Discovery, reporting to Bruce Campbell, becoming chief revenue and strategy officer-Warner Bros. Discovery, new position … WWE hires Caterpillar’s Elisebeth Collins as general counsel-corporate secretary, succeeding Samira Shah, departing the company ... Cinnafilm taps Dom Jackson, ex-Xperi, as vice president-products and services ... Senate confirms Laurie Locascio, ex-University of Maryland, as Commerce Department undersecretary-standards and technology and head of NIST (see 2204080043).
FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks announces Justin Faulb moves to Starks’ office as wireline and national security adviser; Austin Bonner moves to media and consumer protection adviser, succeeding Diane Holland who shifts to deputy bureau chief-Wireline; and Morgan Bodenarain, ex-office of Rep. G. K. Butterfield, D-N.C., joins as Starks' legal adviser, focusing on digital equity, replacing Special Adviser Alisa Valentin, leaving agency (see 2204070060) … Gibson Dunn announces Svetlana Gans, ex-NCTA and ex-FTC, as partner in the Antitrust and Competition, the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation, and the Public Policy practice groups.