Schneider Electric promotes Joshua Dickinson to senior vice president-chief financial officer, North America ... Nexus IT appoints Intelitechs founders Jake Hiller chief revenue officer and Eric Sessions chief operating officer … ImOn Communications names Margaret Horsfield, ex-J.E. Adams Industries, strategy and transformation officer … Schneider Electric promotes Joshua Dickinson to senior vice president-chief financial officer, North America.
Motion Picture Association hires Aaron Wais, ex-Mitchell, Silberberg, as senior vice president-head, global litigation, reporting to Karyn Temple, senior executive vice president-global general counsel ... Utilities Technology Council promotes Eric Wagner to manager-advocacy ... Shaun McCarthy, ex-Cisco, joins Nokia as president-North America sales ... Arm adds Karen Dykstra, former AOL chief financial and administrative officer, and Jeff Sine, Raine Group co-founder and partner, to its board, effective immediately, and names Splunk’s Jason Child chief financial officer, effective Nov. 14, replacing current CFO Inder Singh, who will remain Arm advisor through November; Splunk launches a search for Child’s successor, establishing an interim office of the CFO that reports to CEO Gary Steele ... Chipmaker Ambiq names Scott Goodwin, ex-Deloitte, CFO ... Intelligent connectivity platform Boomi adds former Ford CEO Mark Fields to its board.
Leo Fitzpatrick, ex-Free Press, joins TURN-The Utility Reform Network as telecommunications policy analyst, based in D.C. ... Broadband infrastructure company PCT International hires private equity veteran Simit Shah as CFO ... Web3 company NFT Technologies names Mantaro Capital’s Frank Guo chief financial officer, replacing Inar Kamaletdinov ... Napster hires former Roblox executive Jon Vlassopulos, also ex-AT&T Wireless, as its next CEO ... Mobile app experience company Airship adds former Disney and Walmart executive Cindy Davis to its board ... Autodesk names Peloton’s Dara Treseder, also former Apple, chief marketing officer, effective Oct. 14 ... Music investment fund ME Ventures adds Dimoso CEO Jacki Vause to its advisory board.
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.”