Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham resigns ... Comcast names Maria Weaver, ex-Radio One's Interactive One, senior vice president-marketing, Comcast Cable's Comcast Spotlight ... Joining CenturyLink is Erich Sanchack, ex-Lockheed Martin, as senior vice president-federal sales, effective Nov. 1, succeeding Tim Meehan, named vice president-managed services sales and support ... Harland Clarke advances Victor Nichols to CEO, succeeding Chuck Dawson, named chairman, effective Jan. 1 ... RF Industries said President-CEO Johnny Walker agreed to terminate his employment to attend to family medical needs; Howard Hill, founder and ex-president/CEO, will be interim president-CEO without pay.

Viacom promotes VH1 and Logo President Chris McCarthy to also be president of MTV ... In New York Times Co.'s buy effective Monday of tech and other product-recommendation services The Sweethome and sister site The Wirecutter, the acquirer said their founder Brian Lam remains in an advisory role; staying in current roles post-takeover are Jacqui Cheng, editor-in-chief, and Christopher Mascari, product director; NYT Beta Vice President Ben French is interim general manager, integrating the services into the media company ... Aon hires James Trainor, ex-FBI Cyber Division head, as senior vice president-Aon Risk Solutions' Cyber Solutions Group ... Ankura Consulting Group appoints Luke Tenery, ex-Kroll's Cyber Security and Investigations practice, as senior managing director, leading Ankura's Cybersecurity practice within the firm's Risk, Resilience & Geopolitical group ... Cyient announces Suman Narayan, ex-ON Semiconductor, as senior vice president-head, Semiconductor Business unit.

Venable hires Charles Curran, ex-Network Advertising Initiative, as partner, Privacy and Data Security practice ... EverFi education tech firm adding Monique Waters, leaving the office of Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., as senior director-corporate communications, effective in early November ... Emerson said senior leadership moves in the Office of the Chief Executive include: Michael Train, to executive president-Emerson Automation Solutions; Robert Sharp, becomes executive president-Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions; Sara Yang Bosco promoted to senior vice president-secretary-general counsel of the entire company; and Katherine Button Bell, to vice president-chief marketing officer ... Viacom hires Kiel Berry, ex-Linkin Park’s Machine Shop Ventures, as co-head/senior vice president-Viacom Labs, which also is led by Susan Claxton, recently promoted to senior vice president.

National Governors Association hires Kirk Jonas, ex-University of Richmond, as director-Center for Best Practices ... Social Reality, internet advertising automation firm, names J.P. Hannan, ex-Cumulus Media, chief financial officer ... AirMap, drone airspace management platform, adds Daniel Rubio, ex-Here location company, as chief technology officer ... Flashpoint, deep and dark web business risk intelligence provider, appoints Jennifer Leggio, ex-Digital Shadows and Cisco, as chief marketing officer ... Scality, object and cloud storage provider, said it has hired Paul Turner, ex-Cloudian, as chief marketing officer, and Pierre Derome, formerly of T-Online France, as vice president-engineering, and has promoted Claire Forest to chief people officer ... Konrad Technologies adds David Loadman, from National Instruments,as vice president-general manager ... Ignition Partners said Scott Coleman, ex-Microsoft, has joined as business development partner ... Lobbyist registrations: Intel, Sirona Strategies, effective Sept. 27 ... Visual Arts Rights Coalition, Capstone National Partners, effective July 1 and on House and Senate Judiciary committees' copyright and royalty issues/reform.

Qualcomm promotes Qualcomm Technology Licensing's Alex Rogers to executive vice president-president, QTL, which he has led since March ... NetLinkz, software defined-wide area network technology firm, hires Suthan Naganayagam, ex-SAP, as CEO-managing director ... Strategy Analytics Consumer Insights Practice adds Jordan Louviere, inventor of MaxDiff, as chief research scientist ... Kony adds Cem Tanyel, ex-TriZetto Corp., as executive vice president/general manager-global service ... Joining Veritas Technologies is David Dart, ex-Celanese Corp., as chief human resources officer ... BigCommerce appoints Brian Dhatt, ex-Borderfree, which Pitney Bowes bought, chief technology officer, new position, and Tod Klubnik, ex-PeopleAdmin, senior vice president-global sales.

Cox Media Group said it promotes: Brett Fennell to chief financial officer-executive vice president, National Ad Platforms, which includes CoxReps, Gamut and Videa; David Palmer to president, CoxReps, reporting to Fennell; and Jason Morrow to chief operating officer, CoxReps, all effective Jan. 1 ... Comcast hires Dinesh Moorjani, who remains at Warburg Pincus as an adviser, as managing director, Comcast Ventures ... LeEco appoints Jasmine Geffner, finance executive, vice president/head-corporate finance and development, Asia-Pacific ... Wesco announces Dave Schulz, ex-Armstrong Flooring, as senior vice president-chief financial officer.

Consumers Union hires Jonathan Schwantes, ex-Iverson Government Relations, as senior policy counsel, working on telecom issues, and Katie McInnis, ex-FCC privacy and technology fellow, as technology policy counsel, with focus on privacy issues ... Entertainment Software Association hires Delara Derakhshani, ex-Consumers Union, as tech policy counsel ... Freedom Technologies hires: Kate Briggs, ex-Salient CRGT, as director-information technology; J.C. Mendyka, ex-U.S. Army spectrum manager, as director-spectrum management; and Eli Gaylor, second-year law student at Georgetown University Law Center, as legal associate.

Comcast hires Ingrid Sanchez Graham, ex-Discovery Networks Latin America/USH, as senior vice president-creative operations, NBCUniversal's Telemundo ... Atlantic Broadband promotes Debbie Eblen to vice president-general manager, South Carolina region ... Pegasus TransTech hires Mark Spicer, ex-Rand McNally, as vice president-integrated solutions, new position reporting to CEO Frank Adelman ... ProQuest names Janet Hogan, ex-Oshkosh Corp., to lead its Global Human Resources organization ... Remitly hires Karim Meghji, ex-buuteeq, as chief product officer; co-founder Josh Hug moves to chief operating officer ... Tribune Media appoints Peter Kern, InterMedia Partners, to board, succeeding Michael Kreger, resigned.

Sharp Corp. adds to duties of Doug Albregts, who is named president-CEO, Sharp Electronics Corp., which manages Americas business; he succeeds Toshiyuki Osawa, and Albregts remains president, Sharp Imaging and Information Co. of America, which manages business-to-business operations ... LifeLock opens its first Washington, D.C., office with Kimberly Allman, ex-Corporation for National and Community Service, as vice president-government affairs and corporate social responsibility, leading LifeLock government affairs, among other initiatives ... USConnect Holdings promotes Deborah Rand to permanent CEO, USConnect Services and its seven properties ... Mishcon de Reya law firm names Joe Hancock, cybersecurity expert, cybersecurity lead ... Infoblox hires Bill McCarthy, ex-Cisco, as executive vice president-worldwide field operations.

Board election results at NG911 Institute: Mary Boyd, West Safety Systems, reelected member-at-large; also reelected in the Consumer Telecommunications Company category were Angel Arocho, Comcast, Donald Brittingham, Verizon, and Joe Marx, AT&T; new member-at-large is Lynn Shapiro Starr, Motorola Solutions ... Encompass Digital Media names Barrie Woolston, ex-Arqiva, to new position of chief commercial officer ... Calix said Bernd Hesse, founder of NG-PON2 Forum, joined the company as senior director-technology development ... Lionsgate names Gisela Asimus-Minnbergh, ex-Endemol, to newly created position of vice president-alternative programming sales ... Block Communications promotes Keith Wilkowski, former Lucas County, Ohio, commissioner, to director-legal and governmental affairs ... LeEco hires Ralph Leung, ex-Morgan Stanley, as senior vice president, managing director and head-corporate finance and development, North America, responsible for overseeing mergers and acquisitions, strategic and venture investments and managing all capital markets and fundraising activities ... Former Microsoft technology and sales executives Mike Rocco and Jim Dietrich form 3Cloud, a technology consulting firm to leverage IoT deployments through the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.