Roku hires Fox Entertainment Group CEO Charlie Collier as president-Roku Media, based in New York, effective in late October, and promotes Mustafa Ozgen to president-devices and Gidon Katz to president-consumer experience, all reporting to CEO Anthony Wood ... DocuSign hires Google President-Americas and Global Partners Allan Thygesen as its next CEO and board member, effective Oct. 10; Mary Agnes Wilderotter will conclude her role as interim CEO when Thygesen arrives, continuing as DocuSign's chair ... Hewlett Packard Enterprise adds former Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency director Regina Dugan, also ex-Facebook, Google and Motorola, to its board.
IEEE promotes Sophia Muirhead to executive director-chief operating officer, effective Jan. 1 ... Changes at Ford: Doug Field takes on expanded role as chief advanced product development and technology officer for Ford Model e scales electric and digitally enabled vehicles; Lisa Drake, vice president-EV industrialization, will now also be responsible for manufacturing engineering; Vice President-EV Technology Chuck Gray is named vice president-vehicle hardware engineering; Jim Baumbick becomes vice president-product development operations, cycle planning and internal combustion engine programs, overseeing all product development for Ford Blue; Chief Financial Officer John Lawler to supervise a makeover of Ford’s global supply chain operations on an interim basis until a chief global supply chain officer is found; Roz Ho joins Ford next month from HP as chief connected vehicle software officer; and Jae Park joins from Google as vice president-digital product design.
Charter Communications promotes Chief Operating Officer Chris Winfrey to president-CEO, effective Dec. 1; current CEO Tom Rutledge, who previously announced his plans to retire, will be executive chairman through the end of his contract in November 2023 ... Warner Music Group names YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl CEO, effective Jan. 1; Kyncl and current WMG CEO Steve Cooper will be co-CEOs for the month of January, and Kyncl will become sole CEO Feb. 1 and take Cooper's board seat ... Cybersecurity platform Deep Instinct names Lane Bess, ex-Palo Alto Networks, CEO; Guy Caspi, Deep Instinct’s co-founder and former CEO, succeeds Bess as board chair and becomes the company’s chief product officer ... Payment, security and authentication company CompoSecure adds former Verifone CEO Paul Galant to its board, succeeding departing director Don Basile.
Washington State Broadband Office hires Estakio Beltran, from Yakima Valley Community Foundation, as digital equity manager, effective Oct. 1 … Catherine Lego to retire from Lam Research board, effective Nov. 7 ... UL Solutions adds Dover’s Patrick Mazzariol, also ex-3M, as executive vice president-chief commercial officer ... Data backup and recovery platform Veeam names former VMware executive Rick Jackson chief marketing officer ... Zoominfo hires DocuSign’s Andrew Riesenfeld as senior vice president-business development ... Thunderbird Entertainment names Kidscreen’s Nelson Huynh director-distribution sales, newly created role.
DOJ hires data scientist Laura Edelson, from New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, as chief technologist-Expert Analysis Group … Kayhan Space appoints Sita Sonty, Boston Consulting Group partner, as a strategic adviser.
Tim McKone, ex-AT&T, launches McK Strategies political consulting and lobbying firm and joins Roberti Global as adviser-lobbying and advocacy … Newly merged analytics company of Information Resources Inc. and NPD names Microsoft’s Malli Vangala chief strategy officer, succeeding Wei Lin Wong, who moves to president-retail ... IHeartMedia promotes Colleen Grant to metro president-Detroit … President Joe Biden nominating Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ex-President Jeffrey Gedmin and former WJLA-TV anchor Kathleen Matthews, ex-Maryland Democratic Party chair, to U.S. Agency for Global Media’s International Broadcasting Advisory Board.
Senate confirms by unanimous consent Wednesday two of President Joe Biden's nominees to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board: Travis LeBlanc, from Cooley and ex-FCC, and Richard DiZinno, National Insurance Crime Bureau vice president-strategy, policy and government affairs ... Senate confirms Nate Fick Thursday to be ambassador-at-large-cyberspace and digital policy (see 2209150049) … BSA|The Software Alliance hires Bruce Miller, from Kyndryl, as senior director-legislative strategy … Drew Griffin, ex-chief of staff to House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Bob Latta, R-Ohio, joins Invariant's government relations and communications team … Arkansas Public Service Commission Chairman Ted Thomas resigns, effective Oct. 1, saying “the time is right for me to take a different path.”
Competitive Carriers Association promotes Senior Vice President-Legislative Affairs Tim Donovan to president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, succeeding Steven Berry, retiring at year-end (see 2209140061) … CrowdStrike names Illumio’s Jennifer Johnson chief marketing officer ... Comcast Advertising moves Chief Growth Officer Pooja Midha to executive vice president-general manager, Effectv, Comcast Cable’s advertising sales division, replacing James Rooke, who recently became president, Comcast Advertising ... AI communications company Dialpad recruits RingCentral’s Arnaud Budkiewicz as vice president-engineering ... Lattice Semiconductor adds Raejeanne Skillern, Flex president-communications, enterprise and cloud, also former Intel, to its board.
Josh Stager, from New America’s Open Technology Institute, says he’s joining Free Press as policy director … Former Rep. Michael Ferguson, R-N.J., will lead AT&T’s federal legislative relations team starting Oct. 3, replacing Tim McKone, retiring; Rhonda Johnson shifts to lead federal regulatory relations, replacing Joan Marsh, also retiring (see 2209130071 and 2205110068).
HWG telecom partner Stephanie Weiner leaves firm to become NTIA’s acting chief counsel … Madison Square Garden Sports President-CEO Andrew Lustgarten to step down at year-end and will join the board, effective Jan. 1, no CEO successor named; David Hopkinson, executive vice president and president-team business operations, named president-chief operating officer, effective immediately ... Mozilla announces Carlos Torres, ex-Flashbots and ex-Salesforce, as chief legal officer … IAB Tech Lab promotes Shailley Singh to executive vice president-product and chief operating officer, and Jill Wittkopp to vice president-product.