Public Knowledge adds Morgan Wilsmann, previously Google fellow at Chamber of Progress, as policy analyst and promotes Lisa Macpherson to policy director and Nicholas Garcia to senior policy counsel ... Global Tech Industries Group appoints Luke Rahbari, previously Equity Armor Investments, as CEO, succeeding David Reichman, retiring ... Technology and services provider Advanced Systems Group hires Kate Sims as vice president-strategic accounts and Joe Marchitto as chief technology officer-strategic accounts; both previously Integrated Media Technologies ... Yanbing Li, previously Aurora, joins security platform Datadog as chief product officer ... Cybersecurity company Cyble appoints Ernest Fung, previously Tokopedia, as chief financial officer ... Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing technology company Edgewater Wireless nominates former Wilan CEO Jim Skippen to board, pending shareholder vote Sept. 5 ... WAN provider Inseego’s board votes to extend Philip Brace’s appointment as executive chairman for two six-month terms.
America’s Public Television Stations’ Lonna Thompson, executive vice president-COO and general counsel, will retire, effective Sept. 1, staying on as consultant ... Connectivity infrastructure provider Alphawave Semi appoints Sameer Ladiwala, ex-Luminar Technologies, as senior vice president-finance/chief accounting officer ... Software development company Provoke Solutions appoints Trace Machina’s Harper Carroll as strategic adviser.
Boston Omaha Broadband promotes Max Meisinger to president-CEO-Broadband Division, succeeding Steve McGhie, remaining as consultant ... Optical networking and cable supplier Proficium hires Brian Patton, ex-Approved Networks, as chief technology officer ... Communications infrastructure provider Bluebird Network adds Travis Noble, previously Unite Private Networks, as chief revenue officer ... Scripps promotes John Cook to vice president-general manager-KTNV-TV Las Vegas, effective Sept. 3.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency promotes Lisa Einstein to chief artificial intelligence officer, new position (see 2408010033) ... Cloud-native wireless core and radio access network solutions provider Axyom.Core appoints Kurt Daniel, ex-Titan.ium Platform, as CEO ... IT company Soroc Technology names Christine Evitt, ex-Compucom Canada, as president, effective Tuesday ... Kape Technologies appoints Ankit Khemka, previously Revolut, as chief marketing officer ... Wayne Lewandowski, ex-Xage Security, joins cybersecurity company Hypori as chief revenue officer ... Cybersecurity company SentinelOne names Stanford adjunct professor Alex Stamos, ex-Meta, as chief information security officer ... Astound Broadband appoints Toni Murphy, ex-Comcast, as executive vice president-COO.
Telecom provider Proadapt promotes Manish Vyas to CEO-managing director ... Cloud services provider Hivelocity appoints Jason Burnett, ex-DataBank, as COO and Charlie Dankner, ex-Equinix, as chief revenue officer ... Sinclair Broadcast Group names Dean Ditmer, previously JNR, vice president-general manager-KATU Portland and KUNP La Grande, both Oregon ... GCI promotes Maureen McCabe Moore to senior vice president-chief customer experience officer ... Hallmark Media names Wondu Dikran, ex-Falkon Entertainment, senior vice president-Hallmark Studios ... Nexstar Media Group appoints IPG’s Ellen Johnson to board, effective Oct. 1.
Jaydee Griffith, previously NTIA, joins ATIS as managing director-Next G Alliance; David Young moves to vice president-technology policy and government relations ... SAP Chief Revenue Officer Scott Russell and Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer Julia White leaving company and executive board, effective Aug. 31; CEO Christian Klein fills Russell’s position in interim, White’s position to be dissolved ... Dual-screen TV company Telly appoints SpotX co-founder and ex-CEO Mike Shehan chief revenue officer ... Cybersecurity company Cyware names Terrence Driscoll, ex-JP Morgan Chase, chief information security officer ... Zehra Akbar, previously Skygrid, joins AI startup Imandra as COO ... Leidos promotes Ron Keesing to chief AI officer ... Chinese carrier- and cloud-neutral internet data center services provider VNET Group appoints David Lifeng Chen, Hongshan CBC Cross-border Digital Fund, to board, succeeding Erhfei Liu, resigning.
Comcast appoints Lance West, ex-American Petroleum Institute, as executive vice president-federal government affairs and head-Washington, D.C., office, effective Sept. 3 (see 2407290039) ... Networking company ZeroTeir names 7percent Ventures’ Andrew Gault CEO ... Electronics solutions provider Radwell appoints Chris Snodgrass, ex-Caterpillar, CEO, effective Aug. 5 ... NAB appoints Nexstar’s Michael Biard to board ... Data infrastructure company NetApp nominates June Yang, ex-Google, to stand for election to board on Sept. 11.
Gov. Ned Lamont (D) nominates United Illuminating’s David Arconti as commissioner-Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA), to begin Aug. 5 in interim capacity; PURA Vice Chairman John Betkoski retiring at year-end ... Lenovo names Tolga Kurtoglu, ex-HP, as chief technology officer, succeeding Yong Rui, becoming president-Emerging Technology Group ... Kenneth Bible, previously chief information security officer, Department of Homeland Security, joins cybersecurity company Crytica Security’s board.
Omnispace’s Mindel De La Torre, former FCC international bureau chief, joins non-terrestrial network service provider Skylo Technologies as head-regulatory affairs ... Fox News Media names Katherine Meeks, previously Gibson, Dunn, as general counsel, effective Aug. 19; Bernard Gugar steps down as general counsel and executive vice president-corporate development ... Computer networking company Netgear appoints Pramod Badjate, ex-Arista Networks, as president-general manager-Netgear Business; Kirsten Daru, ex-Life360, as general counsel-chief privacy officer; Antonio Lopez Reus, ex-Amazon, as vice president-strategy and strategic partnerships; adds onXmaps’ Laura Orvidas to board; and promotes Fiona Spratt to senior vice president-people ... 5G mobile and fixed wireless solutions provider Inseego appoints Semtech’s David Markland as chief product officer and Dean Antonilli, as senior vice president-sales-service providers and names Sal Aroon, ex-Form, as vice president-head of operations.
CTIA promotes Umair Javed to senior vice president-general counsel, succeeding Tom Power, advising until end of year as senior counsel, and expands Vice President-Deputy General Counsel Kathryn Dall’Asta’s role as also chief-corporate affairs and compliance (see 2407240022) ... Fiber-optic company Luna appoints Kevin Ilcisin, co-founder-Juniper Strategies, as president-CEO, effective Aug. 1, succeeding interim CEO Richard Roedel, who also was interim executive chairman and is stepping down after 20 years with company ... Data security company Bedrock Security names co-founders Bruno Kurtic as president-CEO, Pranava Adduri as chief technology officer, and Ganesha Shanmuganathan as chief architect ... IT provider CompQsoft appoints Beth Barnes, ex-Alithya, as chief digital officer ... Emergency communication company AlertMedia appoints Jeff Dean, ex-Databricks, as vice president-global intelligence operations ... Harmonic, broadband and video delivery company, appoints Congruex’s Neel Dev to board ... Aviation broadband company Gogo appoints investor Monte Koch to board.