Daniel Smith, former chief counsel-Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., for Senate Judiciary Committee, joins Gibson Dunn as of counsel, Public Policy and Congressional Investigations practice groups … Wireless connectivity licensor CEVA taps Amir Panush from TDK’s InvenSense as CEO, effective Jan. 1, to succeed Gideon Wertheizer, retiring at the end of 2022 ... CtrlS Datacenters names Ashish Ahuja, ex-Google, chief technology officer.
Margaret Harding McGill announces she left Axios to become NTIA’s senior adviser-public affairs … Wi-Fi sensing platform Origin promotes Chief Commercial Officer Spencer Maid to president-CEO, effective Jan. 1, succeeding CEO Ray Liu, who will remain chairman and chief technology officer ... NCR names Patricia Watson, ex-Bank of America, chief information officer and adds her to its executive leadership team.
BSA|The Software Alliance names Michael O’Brien, ex-National Association of Manufacturers, vice president-global public affairs … WekaIO global data platform provider appoints Jeffrey Giannetti, ex-Cleversafe, chief revenue officer … Avaya taps AlixPartners Managing Director Becky Roof as interim chief financial officer, effective Wednesday, replacing retiring Kieran McGrath, remaining an adviser until Dec. 1; Executive Vice President-Chief Administrative Officer Shefali Shah will take on responsibilities in connection with strategic initiatives being implemented by CEO Alan Masarek.
Accenture promotes Andrew Levy to chief corporate and government affairs officer, newly created role ... Cloudflare appoints Marc Boroditsky, from Twilio, president-revenue … Silicon Integration Initiative appoints Michael Jackson, Cadence Design Systems corporate vice president-R&D, and Jacob Avidan, Synopsys senior vice president-engineering, to its board, replacing Aparna Dey and Dave DeMaria, respectively ... Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee names Microsoft’s Zaid Kahn to board … Supply chain solutions company AIT Worldwide Logistics adds Transflo CEO Renee Krug to its board.
Canada’s Semiconductor Council names Paul Slaby, ex-Nortel, managing director ... Data loss prevention company Next DLP names HelpSystems’ Connie Stack CEO ... DataOps cloud provider Y42 names Jules Cantwell, ex-Qualtrics, president, with Max Herrmann, ex-Swim.ai, joining as senior vice president-marketing5G routing company Arrcus taps former Cisco, Citrix, Ericsson and Motorola executive Ashutosh Sharma as head-engineering, India ... JupiterOne names Sacha Faust, ex-Amazon, chief innovation officer, and Sean Catlett, ex-Slack, general manager-Europe, Middle East and Africa … Arm adds Nest founder-former CEO Tony Fadell, also ex-Apple, to its board.
Latham & Watkins announces promotions including for Intellectual Property Litigation Practice: Michelle Ernst and Britt Lovejoy to partners and Allison Blanco and Gabrielle LaHatte to counsel; for Connectivity, Privacy and Information: Elana Nightingale Dawson to partner; and for Mergers and Acquisitions Practice: Caitlin O’Brien, Mariclaire Petty and Matthew Villar to partners and Alyssa Galinsky, Benjamin Lee, Alexandra Welch McArthur, Gloria Ring, Emily Stegich, Tara Tavernia, Thomas Verity and Stefanie Vincent to counsel, all effective Jan. 1 … Nexstar's CW Network names Pop TV’s Brad Schwartz president-entertainment, effective Monday; and Nexstar Media's Beth Feldman, executive director-communication, Networks Division, adds to her portfolio senior vice president-network communication, replacing Paul Hewitt, leaving CW after 22 years.
Analysys Mason consultancy focused on telecom, media and technology hires as partners Ethemcan Bakirlioglu, ex-Bain & Co., and Giovanni Parenti, from Strategic Management Partners … Peacock Chief Commercial Officer Rick Cordella rejoining NBC Sports as president-programming, NBC Sports and Peacock … Nexstar’s CW Network names Rebekah Dopp, ex-Google, executive vice president-distribution, strategy and affiliate relations.
Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy names former FCBA President Natalie Roisman, ex-Wilkinson Barker, executive director … Ross Lieberman, ex-ACA Connects, joins Hotwire Communications as senior vice president-government affairs … Cybersecurity company Absolute Software names Jim Lejeal, ex-VictorOps, chief financial officer, effective Dec. 5, replacing interim CFO Ron Fior, and Samir Sherif, ex-Imperva, chief information security officer, effective immediately ... Paramount unit BET names as senior vice presidents Simone Oliver, ex-Refinery29, for digital content, and Jason Odom, ex-MotorTrend, for digital operations … Web3 intelligence company AnChain.AI adds Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Walker, former SEC digital asset examiner and counsel, as a strategic adviser ... Semiconductor equipment and services supplier Cohu adds former Coherent CEO Andy Mattes to its board, effective Tuesday.
Online marketplaces operator Etsy promotes Rachana Kumar to chief technology officer, effective Jan. 1, to replace departing CTO Mike Fisher Dec. 31, who remains an adviser through April ... Joe Belfiore, Microsoft head-product and co-manager-Office team, says he’s retiring, but “staying until summer to help” with transition … Maximus names Craig Shinn, ex-Verizon, vice president-digital government solutions ... Cybersecurity company PC Matic promotes Morgan Rubens to vice president-state, local and educational sales ...
Samsung Electronics elevates Jay Lee to executive chairman … Next Generation 911 Institute board elections include elected Liz Graeber, City of Phoenix, as chair; Peter Beckwith, South Sound 911, as vice chair; and Mike Tan, AT&T, for vacant consumer telco position … Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission elects Stephen DeFrank vice chairman … Streamline Media Group adds ex-IBM Chairman-CEO Samuel Palmisano and Christopher Caine, former IBM corporate vice president-governmental programs, to its advisory board, expanding it to five members.