FirstNet Authority announces CEO Edward Parkinson leaving the organization for the private sector; Deputy CEO Lisa Casias becomes acting CEO, effective May 10, during search for new CEO … DOD names Craig Martell, from Lyft, as first chief digital and artificial intelligence officer … Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition's Chief Operating Officer-Chief of Staff Emily Olson departing to become an NTIA broadband program specialist, beginning May 23 … Platinum Advisors says Daniel Sepulveda, ex-Wiley and former ambassador-telecommunications and media issues in Obama administration, is joining government relations team.

VoIP.ms, a platform delivering voice and text services, promotes David Rouleau to CEO, succeeding acting CEO Khan Chau, who continues as president and board member … Qualcomm promotes Jim Cathey to chief commercial officer-Qualcomm Technologies, and adds him to its executive committee ... SMPTE hires David Grindle from U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology as its next executive director, effective in July, succeeding Barbara Lange, who stepped down Dec. 31 ... ... Sony Music Publishing promotes Nick Bral to vice president-creative ... Vecima Networks taps CommScope’s Bill Lee as vice president-global professional services ... Callisto Media taps Patrick Yee from Rebel Ventures as chief marketing officer.

Sidus Space, a space-as-a-service satellite company, says John Curry, ex-NASA and Blue Origin, was appointed chief mission operations officer … Online learning network Noodle hires OppFi’s Catie Starr as chief marketing officer ... LendingPoint, financing platform for e-commerce merchants, taps Liberty Lending’s Ryan Scully, also ex-Discover, as CMO ... Digital assets platform Bakkt adds De’Ana Dow, Capitol Counsel partner-general counsel, and Jill Simeone, Etsy chief legal officer-corporate secretary, to its board, expanding it to 10 members ... My Telescope, Swedish audience measurement startup, adds Steve Farella, from MDC Media Partners, to its board.

Threat detection platform SOC Prime taps former AT&T cybersecurity executive James Carrigan as vice president-worldwide sales ... AppLovin adds Amazon’s Christina Seafort as chief people officer ... Video Advertising Bureau hires TVSquared’s Benjamin Vandegrift as vice president-measurement solutions, newly created position ... Media technology company Digital Joy taps former WWE executive Tracey Arrowood-Shaw as president ... Digi-Key Electronics appoints Kashu Suzuki, ex-Algolia, as regional business development manager-Japan ... Activision Blizzard elects Substack Vice President-Communications Lulu Cheng Meservey to its board and nominates Bacardi executive Kerry Carr, also ex-Disney, for election as a director at its 2022 annual meeting; current board members Hendrik Hartong and Casey Wasserman chose not to seek re-election.

Frontier hires Vodafone’s Vishal Dixit as chief strategy officer ... Hearst Television’s Jessica Mathies moves to Hearst Media Production Group as vice president-development … Chipmaker Semtech hires Intel’s Julie McGee as senior vice president-chief marketing officer ... Accenture promotes Paolo Dal Cin to global head-Accenture Security, and adds him to its global management committee, effective May 1 ... CTIA names Consumer Cellular CEO Ed Evans to board, as company becomes association member … Marvell adds Experian Chief Information Security Officer Sara Andrews to its board, and says incumbent director Bethany Mayer won’t seek reelection at its June 23 annual meeting.

Husch Blackwell names Brendan McCommas, ex-Patent and Trademark Office, senior counsel-Intellectual Property practice and Technology, Manufacturing and Transportation industry group … Nextlink Internet hires Wireless ISP Association’s Claude Aiken as chief strategy officer and chief legal officer, effective May 2 ... Imax promotes Natasha Fernandes to chief financial officer, succeeding Joseph Sparacio, who rejoined Imax last year as interim CFO ... Nexstar Digital taps Gamut’s Dennis Cook, also ex-Sony Pictures Television and Disney, as senior vice president-sales marketing.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr names Wireline Bureau’s Michael Nemcik his acting legal adviser, filling in for Danielle Thumann while’s she on maternity leave … Liberty Latin America taps Aamir Hussain from Verizon Business as chief technology and product officer ... Salem Media Group promotes David Bingham to vice president-operations and business development, Salem Web Network ... Semiconductor solutions company Tessolve hires former Intel executive Huzefa Cutlerywala as senior vice president-worldwide sales and marketing and Madhav Rao, ex-HCL Technologies, as senior vice president-very large-scale integration design.

“Instant commerce” platform Gopuff hires SoFi’s Maria Renz, also ex-Amazon, as senior vice president-North America, effective in May ... Pixelworks nominates Synaptics Chief Financial Officer Dean Butler, also former Marvell Technology, for election to its board at May 12 annual meeting ... Wireless infrastructure company Mobilite rehires Chris Zack as senior vice president-wireless solutions after two-year stint at Airwavz Solutions ... Blockchain company Upshot taps GHCO’s Orestis Tsinalis as head-data and machine learning ... Geico hires former Viacom executive Damon Burrell as chief marketing officer ...

Commerce Department appoints 27 members to the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (see 2204140052), including Google Vice Chair James Manyika, Amazon Web Services Vice President-Database, Analytics and Machine Learning Swami Sivasubramanian, Microsoft Vice President Ashley Llorens, IBM Chief Privacy Officer Christina Montgomery and BSA|The Software Alliance CEO Victoria Espinel.

Sidus Space names Teresa Burchfield, ex-Tupperware, chief financial officer … Cable One promotes Todd Koetje to CFO, effective July 1, succeeding Steven Cochran, who will remain a senior vice president during July, and then is expected to be a consultant to the company through early January ... Digital media company Quotient Technology hires Yuneeb Khan, ex-Nielsen, as CFO, principal accounting officer and treasurer, effective by July.