Bartlett Cleland, previously American Legislative Exchange Council, and Patrick Hedger, ex-Taxpayers Protection Alliance, join NetChoice as general counsel-director, strategic initiatives and director-policy, respectively ... The Motion Picture Association hires Bryan Willett, ex-FBI, as vice president-content protection enforcement-Americas region ... IT company Mycom OSI appoints Charles Bligh, ex-Restore, as CEO, succeeding Andre Coll, transitioning to board chairman ... Tegna names Alex Tolston, ex-Hemisphere Media Group, as senior vice president-chief legal officer ... IT services provider CACI elects Scott Morrison, Ball Corp., to board.
Cloud infrastructure and data solutions provider AiNet promotes Robert Baxter and appoints William Fisher, ex-Information Evolution, as co-CEOs ... Nokia promotes Louise Fisk to chief communications officer ... TDS Telecommunications promotes Kristina Bothfeld to vice president-finance and CFO, effective Dec. 3 ... Cloud platform CoreWeave promotes Michelle O’Rourke to chief people officer ... Hearst Television promotes Blake Bridges to president-general manager-WYFF Greenville, South Carolina, effective Nov. 18 ... Charles Phillips resigns from board of Paramount Global, effective Oct. 31 ...
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces new Office of Native Affairs officials: Kraynal Alfred, ex-Democratic National Committee, as tribal policy adviser, and Jack Jackson, ex-Department of Labor, as tribal policy engagement specialist … Dennis Miller retiring as network president, CW Network, effective Oct. 31, remaining as adviser through the end of year.
OpenAI appoints Dane Stuckey, ex-Palantir, as co-chief information security officer ... Tech integration company Network Innovations hires Keith Johnson, ex-Speedcast, as president-Americas, and promotes Andrew Burdall to executive vice president-strategic development ... Cybersecurity company Resilience names Matthew Polly, ex-Crowdstrike, as chief revenue officer ... Vonage appoints Anthony Bartolo, ex-Bandwidth, as COO.
Data Center Coalition hires Khara Boender, ex-Computer & Communications Industry Association, as senior manager-state policy … UnWired Broadband appoints Matt Murphy, Astra Capital Management, as CEO ... Telecom provider Tele2 appoints Jean Harion, ex-Play Poland, president and CEO ... Chris Sambar leaves AT&T to become Public Storage COO.
CTIA announces board changes, including Laurent Therivel, UScellular, as chairman, and Kyle Malady, Verizon Business, as vice chairman, both effective Jan. 1; Mike Finley, Boingo Wireless, as secretary, effective immediately; and Stephen Bye, Ookla, as member ... Kansas telecom provider Twin Valley appoints John Sullivan, previously Charter, as vice president-operations ... Semiconductor provider Lattice announces Corporate Vice President-Controller Tonya Stevens as interim CFO, succeeding Sherri Luther, who resigns and joins Coherent as CFO-treasurer.
IT systems analytics provider Integrated Research hires Ian Lowe, ex-Dacxi Chain, as CEO ... Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare appoints Chirantan Desai, previously ServiceNow, as president-product and engineering ... Data science and AI services provider Blend hires Ernesto Chavarin, ex-Amazon Web Services, as senior vice president-sales, business development, and growth ... Software provider for the broadband industry GoCare appoints Lake Stockdreher, previously ElectriCom, as director-sales, and Kevin Mitchell, previously Alianza, as vice president-marketing; both also become partners.
Mycom OSI, network solutions provider for cloud systems, appoints John Turnbull, previously Turnbray Consulting, as chief revenue officer ... Soohwan Kim, ex-Ingram Micro, joins Webtoon Entertainment as vice president-investor relations ... Vislink Technologies hires Mather Al-Ali, ex-Halo Maritime Defense Systems, as vice president-sales, Middle East and Africa … Cybersecurity provider Contrast Security appoints Faya Peng, previously Splunk, as general manager-application detection and response ... Qualcomm appoints Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Marie Myers to board.
ACA Connects promotes Zamir Ahmed to senior vice president-external affairs and Bill Tortoriello to vice president-technology and policy ... Cerence AI appoints Brian Krzanich, former CDK Global, as CEO-board member, succeeding the departing Stefan Ortmanns … Blue Mantis, provider of digital strategy and services including cybersecurity, advances Jay Martin to chief information security officer … Cybersecurity provider Intel 471 appoints Mark Huebeler, previously with MercuryGate International, as COO and CFO ... Data center solutions provider EdgeConneX names Masahiko Inoue, ex-Aquila Clean Energy, head-Japan ... IT services provider NinjaOne names Joel Carusone, previously Zeno Technologies, as senior vice president-data and AI ... Digital accessibility solutions Level Access appoints Mark Zablan, ex-Emplifi, as CEO, succeeding Tim Springer, remaining on board.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) reappoints Michael La Rosa to the Florida Public Service Commission, effective Jan. 2, subject to state Senate confirmation … Satellite Industry Association hires Madeleine Chang, ex-Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Aerospace Security Project, as policy director …BigBear.ai promotes Carl Napoletano to COO … Salem Media Group announces Jerry Crowley is stepping down at year’s end as vice president/general manager-New York market.