Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announces leaders of U.S. AI Safety Institute, to be established at the National Institute for Standards and Technology: White House National Economic Council’s Elizabeth Kelly as director and NIST’s Information Technology Laboratory Elham Tabassi as chief technology officer (see 2402070069) … Slingshot Aerospace, satellite tracking and space modeling platform, hires Dun & Bradstreet’s Tim Solms, also former Microsoft, as CEO ... Cybersecurity vendor SoSafe names Andrew Rose, ex-Proofpoint, chief security officer ... Digital communications company IDX hires Scott Paterson, ex-Trend Networks, as chief financial officer.
Crowell & Moring names Pillsbury’s Rafi Azim-Khan to lead its digital law practice-Europe ... Nexstar Media Group board adopts new policy that bars the same individual from serving as board chair and CEO, effective only after Chairman-CEO Perry Sook, Nexstar’s founder and currently its third-largest shareholder, leaves Nexstar and the board; Sook’s current employment agreement runs through March 2026 ... Lumen Technologies names Dave Ward, ex-PacketFabric, as chief technology officer … RS Technologies, manufacturer of composite utility poles, taps board member John Higgins, also former MasTec, as CEO, replacing departed George Kirby ... YL Ventures, cybersecurity venture capital firm, adds longtime YL adviser Justin Somaini, former chief information security officer at Unity, SAP, Yahoo and Symantec, as a full-time partner.
E.W. Scripps hires AMC Networks’ Tony Song as head-network sales and advanced TV, newly created role, effective Wednesday ... Davis Wright hires Brown Rudnick’s Julia Bennett as chief marketing and business development officer, based in the firm’s D.C. office ... Frontier Communications adds Woody Young, ex-Perella Weinberg Partners and also former Lazard, to its board.
NAB radio board adds Jeanna Berge, president of iHeart Media in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Rochester, Minnesota, filling seat vacated by iHeart Media’s Joel McCrea ... Public Service Commission of Wisconsin announces Commissioner Summer Strand as chairperson … Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) names LionHeart Cybersecurity Advisors founder John Godfrey as state’s chief information security officer ... S&P Global promotes Christopher Craig to interim chief financial officer, effective Feb. 12, replacing current CFO Ewout Steenbergen, departing in March ... Velos IoT hires Semtech’s Colin Chew, also ex-Sierra Wireless, as CEO, succeeding Graeme Millar ...DXC Technology moves board member-interim CEO Raul Fernandez, vice chairman-co-owner of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, to permanent CEO spot ... SBA Communications announces retirement of Jason Silberstein as executive vice president-site leasing, promoting Senior Vice President-Services Donald Day to succeed him and Vice President-Site Development Services Nichole Thomas to replace Day, all effective Aug. 1.
Freshfields Bruckhaus announces former FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson as senior adviser-antitrust practice … Porter Wright expands government affairs practice for services related to AI, data privacy and geopolitics, with new principals Raul Alvillar, Neil Simon and Adam Wilczewski, all from Resolute, and Todd Elmer, ex-Blaine Street … Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission promotes Allison Kaster director-chief prosecutor, Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement, succeeding Richard Kanaskie, retired … Colorado’s Governor’s Office of Information Technology hires Jefferson County Chief Information Security Officer Jill Fraser as state’s CISO.
Internet & Television Association hires Inova Health System’s Robert Cantu, also ex-CTIA, as vice president-cybersecurity and broadband technology … SpacePath Communications appoints Eric Schmidt, ex-Comtech, as vice president-sales and marketing, North America ... Michael Bange, ex-New Jersey American Water, joins New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, replacing MaryAnna Holden as commissioner … Orbital Outpost X, startup for space and terrestrial technology, announces Negar Feher, ex-Maxar, as CEO …Radcom 5G tech company appoints Guy Shemesh, ex-Nokia, as CEO, effective Feb. 14, succeeding Eyal Harari, retiring … Web accessibility platform AudioEye hires Mike Paciello, former co-chair of U.S. Access Board's Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee, as chief accessibility officer.
MPA announces Patrick Wolf, ex-Cinq Music Group, as senior vice president-chief accounting officer …SolarWinds hires Brian Goldfarb, ex-Tenable, also former Google, as chief marketing officer ... Telecoming, distributor of sports entertainment and information services through mobile consumption, promotes Roberto Monge to chief business officer ... Defense technology company Reticulate Micro forms Reticulate Space, new satellite communications business segment, and promotes David Horton to the segment’s president and Mark Steel to chief technology officer in addition to his continuing role as Reticulate Micro executive vice president-product and services; company also hires Comtech’s Paul Scardino, also former L3 Harris Technologies, for dual role as Reticulate Micro executive vice president-sales and Reticulate Space chief strategy officer ...Nexstar Media appoints Bill Dallman, ex-KARE Minneapolis, as vice president-general manager, Grand Junction and Montrose, Colorado, designated market area … LeddarTech automotive software names Sylvie Veilleux, ex-Dropbox chief information officer, and ASG Renaissance co-founder Lizabeth Ardisana to board.
FCC Enforcement Bureau announces Alice Suh Jou, ex-DOJ, as assistant bureau chief and Jolina Cuaresma, former Common Sense Media, as senior policy counsel, with both to participate on Enforcement Bureau-led Privacy and Data Protection Task Force … Future of Privacy Forum appoints Anne Flanagan, ex-World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as vice president-AI … Incompas hires Keith Matthews, Mortgage Bankers Association, as digital media manager.
NPR announces Web Summit’s Katherine Maher as president-CEO, succeeding John Lansing, effective March 25 … Alteryx, analytics cloud platform, appoints Chief Financial Officer Kevin Rubin interim CEO, replacing departed Mark Anderson ... USTelecom elects Kristi Moody, Windstream executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer, and Amy Holcroft, Twilio chief privacy officer, to its board, and adds Lightcurve President-CEO Anand Vadapalli to its leadership committee ... LG Ad Solutions, connected TV and cross-screen advertising platforms, restores Alphonso founders Ashish Chordia and Lampros Kalampoukas to the board after successful legal challenge to their December 2022 removal, and names Alphonso early investor Paul Falzone, managing partner-CEO of venture capital firm Manifest, as an additional director.
FCC commissioners announce staff changes: Sanford Williams moves from special adviser to deputy chief of staff in Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel’s office; Arpan Sura, from Wireless Bureau, becomes legal adviser to Commissioner Brendan Carr; Milla Anderson, from office of Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H., named policy adviser to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks; and acting staffers in Commissioner Anna Gomez’s office taking permanent spots are Deena Shetler as chief of staff-legal adviser for media and international, Edyael Casaperalt as legal adviser for wireless, public safety and consumer protection, Hayley Steffen as legal adviser for wireline and space, Harsha Mudaliar as policy adviser for media and tech and Anna Holland, as executive assistant.