SmallSat Alliance hires Microsoft’s Angel Smith as executive director, succeeding Steve Nixon, co-founder who remains as strategic adviser ... Digital services firm Orion Innovation appoints Cyrus Lam, ex-CDI, as CFO ... Data recovery company Clumio adds Jillian Souza, ex-BigPanda, as chief people officer and Carol Hague, previously Salesloft, as vice president-marketing ... Family Entertainment Television appoints Christine Carbia, ex-E.W. Scripps, as vice president-national sales ... Technology distribution company Graybar promotes Jason Casey to vice president-distribution operations ... Brillio names Melissa Bethell, previously Bain Capital, to board ... Technology platform company Lightwave Logic appoints consultant Yves LeMaitre, ex-Luna Innovations, to board, effective Aug. 1.
Thomas Earnest, previously Matterhorn Legal, joins Mintz as member-corporate practice, for clients including technology, videogaming and digital media ... Sivers Semiconductors appoints Vickram Vathulya, ex-Nuvotronics, as president-CEO, succeeding Anders Storm, effective Aug. 19... Data solutions company Somos appoints Kayla Gardner, ex-Google, as director-public policy and government affairs and expands role of Joel Bernstein to vice president-head-U.S. public policy and government relations ... Sophos hires Teresa Anania, ex-Zendesk, as chief customer officer ... Cybersecurity company Blumira hires Marc Davis, previously Davmar Consulting, as channel development leader.
Hilary Lane, previously Holland and Knight, joins Ballard Spahr as privacy and data security partner ... Computer networking company Cornelis Networks appoints Intel’s Lisa Spelman as CEO, succeeding Philip Murphy, becoming president and COO, effective Aug. 15 ... Streaming service MainStreaming appoints Nicola Micali, ex-Akamai Technologies, as chief customer officer.
FCC staff changes: Wireline Bureau’s Lauren Garry ends her detail to Commissioner Brendan Carr’s office; Nese Guendelsberger, acting legal adviser-wireless to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, returns to International Bureau; Anna Holland leaves Commissioner Anna Gomez’s office for National Institute on Aging; Flynn Rico-Johnson, ex-office of Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., joins Starks’ office as policy adviser; Brian Phillips, ex-office of Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., joins Office of Media Relations as deputy director; Troy Tanner shifts from Space Bureau to acting director-Office of International Affairs (see 2407180021); and retiring are: Carol Edwards, Office of the Managing Director; Paul Murray, Office of Engineering and Technology; Paul D'Ari, Wireless Bureau; and David Sieradzki, Public Safety Bureau.
Copyright Office promotes Malcolm Hawkins to deputy director-operations ... Internet security company McAfee appoints Craig Boundy, ex-Experian, as president-CEO, effective Aug. 21 ... Vantage Data Centers adds Emily Friedberg, previously SkySafe, as chief technology and innovation officer ... Cloud networking company Aviatrix hires Anirban Sengupta, ex-Google, as chief technology officer-senior vice president-engineering ... Patrick Scully, previously Ciena, joins telecom company Quantum Corridor as chief product officer ... Communications infrastructure provider Vivacity Infrastructure Group promotes Kyle Hildebrand to chief revenue officer and Amanda Borrett to vice president-business development ... Family Entertainment Television names Kyle Patten, ex-Univision, as senior vice president-performance sales ... Dennis Mulder, ex-Microsoft, joins data infrastructure company Volumez as vice president-customer success ... Foundation Stack AI appoints Palantir Technologies’ Charlie Cleveland as strategic adviser.
The Motion Picture Association appoints Amazon’s Marissa Bostick as senior vice president-head of global litigation ... Cloud storage company Box appoints Samantha Wessels, previously Snyk, as president-Europe, Middle East, and Africa ... Cybersecurity company NST Cyber hires Pradeep Kumar, ex-IBM, as senior vice president-chief product architect ... Hitachi cloud management subsidiary Hitachi Vantara appoints Joe Novak, ex-NetApp, as senior vice president-global customer success and support ... Cybersecurity company Gorilla Technology appoints Visionario Venture Capital’s Keith Levy to board.
Jehmal Hudson, chairman-Virginia State Corporation Commission, named to NARUC executive committee, replacing Kent Chandler ... Cybersecurity company Forcepoint promotes Ryan Windham to CEO, succeeding Manny Rivelo, retiring ... Streaming service Zone·tv’s founder and chief product and technology officer Doug Edwards takes additional role as president, replacing Jeff Weber ... Cybersecurity company TXOne Networks appoints Stephen Driggers, ex-Nozomi Networks, chief revenue officer ... Cybersecurity company Tufin adds Jeff Taylor, ex-Pegasystems, as COO and Christian Na, ex-Emburse, as general counsel ... Louise Pentland, ex-Disney, joins Roku as senior vice president-general counsel, succeeding Stephen Kay, retiring ... Skylo names Paul Hanton, ex-Google, as vice president-carrier partnerships; Pete Saladino, ex-Samsung, as global head-marketing; and Vijay Krishnan, ex-Intel, as vice president-strategic partnerships.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) appoints interim Chief Information Officer Greg Hoffman to permanent post ... Avaya’s CEO Alan Masarek to retire at year end; board chair Patrick Dennis, also CEO of cybersecurity firm Venafi, succeeds him Sept. 1 ... AI startup Ada IQ appoints Liz Graham, ex-Indigo, as CEO ... Software company smartShift hires Jagdish Sahasrabudhe, ex-SAP, as chief technology officer ... IT services company CompQsoft appoints Dave Wendel, previously Alithya, as vice president-sales ... O-RAN Alliance elects Deutsche Telekom’s Abdurazak Mudesir as chairman ... Streaming Video Technology Alliance elects Amazon’s Nicolas Weil and Broadpeak’s Guillaume Bichot to board ... Former Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, joins Personal AI board.
Cox Media Group promotes Brad Smith to CFO ... Benchmark Space Systems, space mobility integrator, appoints Chuck Bush, previously Champlain College visiting professor, as CFO ... Aldo Pietropaolo, ex-SGNL, joins identity service company Strata Identity as field chief technology officer ... NetSecurity appoints Mike Hayes, ex-Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, as senior vice president-strategy and business development, and Olivia Lassiter, ex-Northwestern Mutual, as sales executive-private sector ... Passwordless authentication company Secret Double Octopus appoints Astrix Security’s Timothy Youngblood to board.
Peter Chandler, previously TechNet, joins Internet Works as executive director ... Telecommunications technology company Titanium Platform promotes Bruno Lacoste from COO to CEO ... Data center operator Start Campus moves interim CEO Robert Dunn to permanent spot and promotes Luis Rodrigues to COO ... Daryush Laqab, ex-Nvidia, joins software engineering company Ascendion as chief AI officer ... Com Laude appoints consultant Ben Crawford, ex-CentralNic Group, as CEO, succeeding Glenn Hayward, departing as part of transition after company was sold to PX3 Partners ... Cybersecurity company Stairwell appoints Joe DeBlasio, ex-Transmit Security, as vice president-global sales and customer success ... SurgePays names AT&T’s Joseph Gomez as vice president-mobile virtual network operations ...Anterix nominates Scott Lang, ex-Turvo, Heard Capital’s William Heard, and Owl Creek’s Mark Fleischhauer to stand for election to board ... Information management company OpenText appoints Accenture’s Annette Rippert to board ... Sidus Space appoints Jeffrey Shuman, ex-L3Harris, to board.