Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter announces Miriam DeChant, ex-Patent and Trademark Office, as associate register-copyrights and director-public information and education … National Highway Traffic Safety Administration names Brian Tegtmeyer, from DuPage (Illinois) Public Safety Communications, as 911 program coordinator, succeeding Laurie Flaherty, retired … Wireless Infrastructure Association promotes Stephen Keegan to counsel-government affairs.
Office of U.S. Trade Representative taps New America’s Heather Hurlburt as chief of staff ... E-commerce platform Marketplacer taps Adobe’s Doug McIver as chief product officer, newly created role, and Tal Rotbart, ex-PageUp, as chief technology officer ... Yahoo announces former NerdWallet executive Tapan Bhat, also ex-News Corp and Adobe, as president-general manager, Yahoo Finance ... Telstra hires Zayo Group’s Noah Drake as president-the Americas.
Velodyne Lidar hires Avinger’s Mark Weinswig as chief financial officer, effective May 16, succeeding Drew Hamer, who will transition out of Velodyne ... Wireless connectivity platform TeraGo taps Philip Jones from Redline Communications as CFO, effective May 24, replacing interim CFO Andy Ramsey, who will leave the company ... Cisco announces Bill Davenport, ex-FCC, as senior director-government affairs … Splunk promotes Katie Bianchi to senior vice president-chief customer officer ... Internet security company Cloudfare names Cisco’s Carlos Torales Montero vice president-head of sales, Latin America.
Intelsat hires Anthony O’Brien, ex-Raytheon, as chief financial officer, reassigns Chief Services Officer Michael DeMarco as chief commercial officer, taps Clay McConnell from Delta Air Lines as senior vice president-corporate communications and marketing, and adds Jeff Sare from Panasonic Avionics as president-Commercial Aviation division ... Smith Micro taps Von Cameron from Practics Business Solutions as chief revenue officer ... Cloud network provider Fastly announces Joshua Bixby will step down as CEO and from the board when a successor is appointed.
WISPA hires David Zumwalt, ex-Broadband VI, as president-CEO, effective June 1 (see 2205040044) ... Streaming audio platform TuneIn taps Tom Fuelling, ex-Hulu, as chief financial officer ... BuzzFeed hires Squarespace CFO Marcela Martin as president, effective this summer ... Zynga says President-Publishing Bernard Kim is leaving to become CEO of Match Group, staying with Zynga until May 30 to support transition; Match Group says Kim will join its board when his CEO appointment becomes effective May 31, and current CEO Shar Dubey will remain a board member and become adviser to the company after she steps down ... Info-Tech Research Group hires former IBM and Charter Communications executive Julianne Garry as chief marketing officer ... Intel hires AMD’s Matt Poirier as senior vice president-corporate development, effective May 30, and adds him to its executive leadership team, reporting to CEO Pat Gelsinger ... Technology company Globant adds JPMorgan Chase’s Andrea Mayumi Petroni Merhy to its board, expanding it to nine members.
Milbank announces John Beahn, ex-Shearman & Sterling, as partner with a focus on matters related to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ... Charter Communications promotes Justin Colwell to executive vice president-connectivity technology ...
ACA Connects announces CEO Matt Polka stepping down in July ... Benton Institute for Broadband & Society appoints Revati Prasad, ex-Institute for Local Self-Reliance, director-research and fellowships… NAB announces Alex Siciliano, ex-The Petrizzo Group, as senior communications strategist, new position … IHeartMedia hires Sarah van Mosel from SiriusXM's Stitcher as executive vice president-iHeart Audience Network ... Boingo Wireless taps Tanya Lynch from Mouser Electronics as vice president-human resources ... Chinese social e-commerce platform Yunji promotes Peng Zhang to vice president-finance to replace Chengqi Zhang, resigning for personal reasons, both effective Friday.
Nexstar Media Group hires AT&T’s Rachel Morgan as executive vice president-general counsel, effective June 20, assuming the general counsel’s position from Elizabeth Ryder, who remains secretary to Nexstar’s board ... AST SpaceMobile, space-based cellular broadband network, taps Sean Wallace from Cogent Communications as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective May 10 ... Data enablement platform LiveRamp promotes Vihan Sharma to executive vice president-global revenue, newly created role, effective May 2.
FTC Chair Lina Khan announces Anisha Dasgupta, ex-Office of the New York State Attorney General, as general counsel, and Elizabeth Wilkins, ex-White House, as director-policy planning … RapidSOS emergency response data platform hires former FirstNet CEO Edward Parkinson as president-public sector … Twilio hires Autodesk’s Reeny Sondhi as its first chief digital officer and HP’s Amy Holcroft as its first chief privacy officer ... Blockchain company Fundamental Labs adds Facebook’s Vinayak Rao as principal-GameFi lead ... Cyberscurity company Lumu taps Jeffrey Wheat from Blue Team Alpha as field chief technology officer ... Public Knowledge elects Marcus Reese, principal-LC Public Affairs; Vickie Robinson, general manager-Microsoft’s Global Airband Initiative; and Gary Slaiman, founder of Slaiman Consulting, to board.
FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks announces staff changes: Media Legal Adviser Austin Bonner becoming acting chief of staff, as Chief of Staff and Senior Legal Adviser William Davenport leaves agency end of month; Associate Division Chief-Wireless Competition Bureau Georgios Leris moving to acting legal adviser-wireless and international through commission’s May open meeting when Harris Wiltshire's Shiva Goel joins as permanent legal adviser-wireless and international (see 2204270036) … Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo appoints Richard DalBello, from Virgin Atlantic, director-NOAA Office of Space Commerce.