Competitive Carriers Association promotes Senior Vice President-Legislative Affairs Tim Donovan to president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, succeeding Steven Berry, retiring at year-end (see 2209140061) … CrowdStrike names Illumio’s Jennifer Johnson chief marketing officer ... Comcast Advertising moves Chief Growth Officer Pooja Midha to executive vice president-general manager, Effectv, Comcast Cable’s advertising sales division, replacing James Rooke, who recently became president, Comcast Advertising ... AI communications company Dialpad recruits RingCentral’s Arnaud Budkiewicz as vice president-engineering ... Lattice Semiconductor adds Raejeanne Skillern, Flex president-communications, enterprise and cloud, also former Intel, to its board.

Josh Stager, from New America’s Open Technology Institute, says he’s joining Free Press as policy director … Former Rep. Michael Ferguson, R-N.J., will lead AT&T’s federal legislative relations team starting Oct. 3, replacing Tim McKone, retiring; Rhonda Johnson shifts to lead federal regulatory relations, replacing Joan Marsh, also retiring (see 2209130071 and 2205110068).

HWG telecom partner Stephanie Weiner leaves firm to become NTIA’s acting chief counsel … Madison Square Garden Sports President-CEO Andrew Lustgarten to step down at year-end and will join the board, effective Jan. 1, no CEO successor named; David Hopkinson, executive vice president and president-team business operations, named president-chief operating officer, effective immediately ... Mozilla announces Carlos Torres, ex-Flashbots and ex-Salesforce, as chief legal officer … IAB Tech Lab promotes Shailley Singh to executive vice president-product and chief operating officer, and Jill Wittkopp to vice president-product.

Newly promoted in Sinclair’s legal department: Ethan Haire to vice president-deputy general counsel; Kristi LeFaivre to vice president-associate general counsel; and Chase Bales and Nick Wittich to directors-associate general counsels ... Sally Bae promoted to senior vice president-global partnerships for AEG in Las Vegas, a joint venture partner with MGM Resorts International in T-Mobile Arena and MGM Grand Garden Arena ... Allied Esports Entertainment elevates Yinghua Chen to CEO; she will no longer be chief investment officer or board secretary, but will remain president; Lyle Berman, interim CEO since February, continues as board co-chairman, and assumes an additional new position as vice president-mergers and acquisitions.

Intel promotes Shlomit Weiss to senior vice president-general manager, design engineering, replacing Sunil Shenoy, retiring and remaining for transition and advising CEO through year-end; Navid Shahriari moves to co-GM ... Chipmaker SmartKem promotes Nigel Prue to chief accounting officer ... WWE recruits Dan Ventrelle, ex-NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders, as executive vice president-talent, and Maurice Edelson from the Juilliard School, also former Time Warner and Viacom, as executive vice president-chief legal officer ... LG Ads Solutions, connected TV advertising platform, hires Tony Marlow from Integral Ad Science as global chief marketing officer; Barbie Brewer, ex-mParticle, as global head-human resources; and Edward Wale from Magnite as vice president-Europe ... Open finance platform MX Technologies names PayPal’s Nandita Gupta chief product officer ... UL Research Institutes hires Jill Crisman from DOD as executive director, Digital Intelligence Safety Research Institute ... Ribbon Communications adds Scott Mair, former AT&T president-networks engineering and operations, to its board, expanding it to nine members ... Nintex, process intelligence and automation company, adds Jeff Teper, Microsoft president-collaborative apps and platforms, to its board.

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces Brad Berry, from NAACP, returns to agency as senior adviser-diversity, equity and inclusion, and Deena Shetler moves from Office of Economics and Analytics to deputy chief of staff-administration … GSMA Chief Regulatory Officer John Giusti becoming president of association’s M4D Foundation, succeeding Lawrence Yanovitch, who stays through year-end for transition … Hunton Andrews expands its global privacy and cybersecurity practice, adding Sarah Pearce from Paul Hastings as a partner, London office.

Eutelsat hires Laurence Delpy from Palo Alto Networks as general manager-video business unit, effective immediately, and taps Cyril Dujardin from Atos as general manager-connectivity business unit, effective Oct. 10; Delpy and Dujardin to be added to Eutelsat’s executive committee, and Deputy CEO Michel Azibert will be interim general manager-connectivity business unit until Dujardin’s arrival ... Wendy Clark to depart as Dentsu International global CEO with the discontinuation of her role in global restructuring, effective Dec. 31, when she will also step down as director and executive officer ... KnowBe4, security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, adds VMware’s Ani Banerjee, also ex-Dell, Yahoo and AOL, as chief human resources officer.

Eutelsat Chief Financial Officer Sandrine Teran to leave by the end of November; the search for her successor is underway ... Broadband, TV and wireless provider Comporium promotes Andrea Cooper to senior vice president-human resources ... Dotdash Meredith promotes Wendy Naugle to editor-in-chief of People magazine, reporting to Entertainment Group President Leah Wyar; Naugle replaces Liz Vaccariello, who remains with Dotdash Meredith in a corporate editorial leadership position ... FCC announces Ben Goldsmith, DOJ principal scientific officer, joins Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council and VMWare’s Rittwik Jana departs.

Token, supplier of biometric authentication for thwarting ransomware attacks, names Project44's Rommel De La Cruz chief financial officer ... Cybersecurity company SafeGuard Cyber promotes John McCabe to global head-strategic partnerships ... Digital publisher XLMedia names Flutter’s Karen Tyrrell chief people and operations officer ... AI communications company Dialpad recruits Google's Joe Faber as general counsel ... Web3 consumer gateway company Zelcore promotes Gil Rutkowski to chief technology officer; previous CTO and co-founder Tadeas Kmenta becomes senior principal developer ... President Joe Biden appoints 26-member President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council with Global Infrastructure Partners CEO Adebayo Ogunlesi as chair and Maria Lehman, soon to start her term as president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, as vice chair.

Patent and Trademark Office new appointees to Performance Review Board are PTO Deputy Director Derrick Brent as chair and, as alternates, Amy Cotton, deputy commissioner for trademark examination policy, and Katherine Vidal, PTO director … SAP promotes Lloyd Adams to president-North America … With HP’s $3.3 billion Poly buy complete (see 2203280036), HP adds ex-Poly CEO Dave Shull as president-workforce services and solutions, newly created position, naming him to its executive leadership team, effective Nov. 1, and appoints HP's Andy Rhodes to run the combined HP-Poly business as general manager-hybrid work solutions and peripherals, effective immediately ...