Law firm Verrill taps Mark Rubin, former Tracfone senior executive-government affairs, as counsel-telecommunications … Executive changes at Comscore: Chief Product Officer David Algranati assumes new role as chief innovation officer; Greg Dale named chief operating officer, having previously rejoined Comscore through its 2021 acquisition of social media measurement company Shareablee, where he was COO; Jon Lieberman, who also joined Comscore via the Shareablee acquisition, becomes chief technology officer; Chief Commercial Officer Chris Wilson leaving the company.
Supply chain resilience company Interos names Justworks’ Aida Sukys chief financial officer ... Cybersecurity services provider Kivu Consulting names Palo Alto Networks’ Billy Evans senior vice president ... Abbyy, intelligent process automation company, hires former Broadcom executive Gabrielle Lukianchuk as CMO ... Fleet Space Technologies names Gerrit Olivier, from the Institute of Mine Seismology, director-planetary geophysics … Autodesk adds Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim to its board ... Ebooks subscription service Scribd adds Life360's Ariana Hellebuyck as chief marketing officer, newly created position ... Identity verification platform Okta adds Coinbase Global President-Chief Operating Officer Emilie Choi, also former Warner Bros. Entertainment, to its board.
ACA Connects says Senior Vice President-Government Affairs Ross Lieberman is resigning, effective Aug. 31, “to pursue new interests” … New Mexico Public Regulation Commission names Ed Rilkoff, from Smartflower Solar tech company, director-Utility Division … Qualcomm hires Izzy Santa, ex-One Concern, as senior director-public affairs and Katie Patala, formerly Mercury Public Affairs, as director-public affairs … Saga Communications appoints board member Warren Lada interim CEO following Friday’s death of founder and CEO Ed Christian.
HTC announces CEO Mike Hagg retiring before year-end, with Chief Operating Officer Carlton Lewis rising to that post … Bill.com names Typeform’s Irana Wasti, also ex-GoDaddy, chief product officer, and names former PayPal executive Sofya Pogreb chief operating officer ... Redpoint Cybersecurity promotes David Duncan to vice president-cyber operations ... NEC America names Idemia’s Gary Lac vice president-solutions.
Cloud-native security startup Skyhigh Security names Scott Goree, ex-Nutanix and also former Cisco, vice president-worldwide channels, and Dell’s Jeff Tripp, also ex-AT&T, senior director-America’s channels ... Cyber defense company BlueVoyant taps Shane Akeroyd as vice chairman and Eric Staffin as vice president-strategic development, both joining from IHS Markit ... Software intelligence company Dynatrace names Akamai’s Nicole Fitzpatrick general counsel and Sue Quackenbush, ex-Vonage, chief people officer ... Telstra promotes Eric Dalessio to vice president-customer service delivery, the Americas ... Voice AI technology company Suki names Google’s Belwadi Srikanth vice president-product and design, and Anmol Rastogi, ex-Lendingkart, senior director-product management ... Yahoo adds Away CEO Jen Rubio to its board, expanding it to 10 members ... Box content cloud platform adds Informatica CEO Amit Walia to its board.
FuboTV names Merkle’s Lynette Kaylor senior vice president-advertising sales ... Israeli 5G wireless transport company Ceragon Networks hires Ronen Stein, ex-Siklu, as CFO, effective Sept. 21 ... Thunderbird Entertainment’s Great Pacific Media unscripted content subsidiary promotes Lindsay Macadam to executive vice president and Todd Serotiuk to vice president-creative ... Darren Throop plans to step down as president-CEO of Hasbro’s eOne entertainment content subsidiary when his contract expires year-end, no successor named ... MusiCares names Theresa Wolters, from Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, vice president-health and human services ... Blockchain company Lamina1 names former Google and Electronic Arts executive Jamil Moledina its first vice president-games partnerships and media ... Energous adds Quantum CFO Michael Dodson and RoseRyan CEO David Roberson to its board ... Cloud database company Cockroach Labs adds former Amazon General Counsel Michelle Wilson to its board.
IT solutions provider Softchoice names Vice President-Financial Reporting and Tax Yota Skederidis interim chief financial officer, effective with Sept. 9 departure of current CFO Bryan Rocco ... Melanie Tiano, ex-CTIA, joins T-Mobile as director-regulatory affairs … Intel elects Cadence Design Systems Executive Chairman Lip Bu Tan, also chairman of Walden International and founding managing partner of Celesta Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, to its board, effective Sept. 1 ... Digital Entertainment Group appoints Robin Tarufelli, Deloitte managing director-media and entertainment, special adviser to its board.
With its $375 million Redbox Entertainment buy complete (see 2205110051), Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment appoints former Redbox CEO Galen Smith to newly created role of executive vice chairman of Redbox and Chicken Soup, and names former Scripps Networks executive Jonathan Katz Chicken Soup president ... Axon, network of devices and apps for public safety personnel, hires Sonos Chief Financial Officer Brittany Bagley as CFO-chief business officer, effective Sept. 26; Jim Zito, Axon’s interim CFO since May 4, will return to senior vice president-accounting; at Sonos, Chief Legal Officer Eddie Lazarus succeeds Bagley as interim CFO, effective Sept. 1.
Comtech Telecommunications names Chairman Ken Peterman president-CEO, succeeding departing Michael Porcelain, who also resigns from Comtech’s board ... Cryptocurrency platform Bakkt Holdings names Karen Alexander chief financial officer; she had been interim CFO since May and previously was chief accounting officer ... Automated cybersecurity platform Forescout Technologies hires former Trend Micro executive Rik Ferguson as vice president-security intelligence ... Software development tools provider SmartBear promotes Christine Whichard to chief information security officer, in addition to her current responsibilities as senior vice president-IT services and infrastructure ... Accion Labs, software product engineering company for emerging technologies, names GlobalLogic’s Tom Collins, also ex-Accenture, chief operating officer ... Cloud identity platform Authomize adds Rene Bonvanie, Palo Alto Networks chief marketing officer emeritus, to its board ... Digital Global Systems, specializing in next-generation software for wireless networks, adds former T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Cole Brodman to its advisory board.
FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips tells President Joe Biden he plans to resign in the fall (see 2208090061) ... Digital contracting platform Ironclad names former Twilio executive Leslie Henthorn chief marketing officer ... Connext, information technology deployment company, recruits Onepath’s William Bailey, also former Facebook, as president, and promotes Matt Howard to chief operating officer ... Video-editing platform VideoVerse names Waymo’s Ashwin Limaye chief product officer, based in London ...Frontier names former British Telecom executive Ettienne Brandt executive vice president-commercial ... Newly promoted to Triton Digital vice presidents: Oscar Sermeno, market strategy, Americas; Daniel Karlsson, market development and global strategy; and Michael Chien, advertising product strategy ... Dell’Oro Group hires telecom industry veteran Sian Morgan as research director-wireless LAN.