Jessica Dine, previously a policy analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, joins New America as a policy analyst-Open Technology Institute and its Wireless Future Project ... TechNet names Rose Feliciano, former manager-government affairs at Desimone Consulting, executive director-Northwest region ... Forge Institute, an association focused on cybersecurity, names Jim Schnoes, ex-Syngrex chief financial officer, as CFO and Daniel Ross, a former senior account executive at Blackbaud, as chief growth officer.

Sean Spivey, former senior policy adviser in NTIA’s Office of Spectrum Management and also ex-FCC, joins Wilkinson Barker as a partner-telecom ... Tegna hires Artsy CEO Michael Steib as president-CEO and director, succeeding David Lougee retiring, effective Aug. 12; company also adds former Away President Catherine Dunleavy and X’s Denmark West to its board as independent directors ... Spectra7 announces the retirement of CEO Raouf Halim, with board Chair Ron Pasek becoming interim CEO ... Pax8 promotes global engineering lead Eric Stevens to chief AI officer ... Sangoma Technologies adds April Walker, ex-Salesforce vice president, to its board ... DigitalOcean cloud provider appoints Bratin Saha, former vice president-general manager, Amazon Web Services, as its chief product and technology officer.

Ballard Spahr names Jeffrey Morgan, ex-Barnes & Thornburg, as of counsel, intellectual property … Maryland Innovation Initiative hires Southern Research Chief Business Officer Abishek Kulshreshtha as its new executive director, effective July 1 ... WISeKey International Holding cybersecurity company announces retirement of Peter Ward as chief financial officer, effective June 30, succeeded by SEALSQ’s John O’Hara, effective July 1; Ward remaining on board … Intracom Telecom Group hires Kyriakos Vergos, ex-Codium Networks, as chief commercial officer ... Redwire, space infrastructure company, taps Virgin Galactic’s Aaron Futch, also former Intelsat, as executive vice president-general counsel and secretary.

FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks announces Flynn Rico-Johnson, former deputy chief of staff to Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., as policy adviser-wireless, space, and international issues … Project Liberty Institute names former Taiwan Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang as senior fellow … Manatt Phelps adds Mike Katz as a partner in its financial services practice; based in Manatt’s New York office, Katz will help lead the expansion of the firm’s blockchain capabilities ... Evolution Equity Partners, cybersecurity venture capital firm, promotes Aron Khurana to partner, in addition to his continuing role as head-investor relations.

Sheba Microsystems https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240611750148/en/Boxlight, interactive technology provider, names Dale Strang CEO; he was interim CEO since January ... Booz Allen taps Bill Vass, ex-Amazon Web Services, as chief technology officer, effective Monday ... Horizon3.ai, autonomous security provider, names Jill Passalacqua, ex-JumpCloud, chief legal officer ... Transmedia company Elf Labs hires screenwriter-director Alyse Rosenberg as senior vice president-content ... Aventi Group, product marketing agency, adds Healy Marketing Group founder Kate Loomis, also former Juniper Networks and Extreme Networks, as partner.

Kansas Commerce Department appoints Deputy Director-Broadband Development Joseph Le as interim director, Office of Broadband Development, during search to replace Jade Piros de Carvalho, reportedly ousted … Nexstar Media Group hires Amazon’s Lisa Taylor as senior vice president-digital advertising sales … Barracuda Networks hires former Check Point Software executive Geoff Waters, also ex-VMware, as chief revenue officer ... SolarWinds hires Actian CEO Lewis Black, also former Nexmo, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Avaya and Citrix, as chief financial officer, effective in August, to succeed departing Barton Kalsu, remaining CFO through Aug. 15 and serving in an advisory capacity thereafter.

ICANN selects London Internet Exchange CEO Kurt Lindqvist as president-CEO, effective December; Sally Costerton continues until then as interim president-CEO … Quadra Partners announces Brian Regan, ex- Aura Network Systems and former National Spectrum Consortium executive committee member, as firm’s first managing director … Crest Hill Advisors names Ken Turner, former DOD deputy director-spectrum, as senior adviser … Bridge Growth Partners, tech investment firm, taps former Siris Capital Group principal Prosper Vignone, also former IBM vice president-corporate development and business development, as a senior adviser.

Beacon Global Strategies, public policy strategic advisory firm, adds Divyansh Kaushik, ex-Federation of American Scientists, as vice president-global technology practice, and Ben Schramm, ex-Maxar Intelligence, as vice president-national security technology practice ... Semtech, semiconductor, IoT systems and connectivity service provider, taps current board member Hong Hou as president-CEO, succeeding departed Paul Pickle; Hou is former president of Brooks Automation’s semiconductor group, and previously was general manager of Intel’s cloud and edge networking group ... Curve, U.K.-based digital wallet, promotes Senior Vice President-Corporate Development Nancy Yaffa to U.S. CEO, and adds Silverfern Group co-founder Reeta Holmes to its board ... Cybersecurity company Securonix names Dev Singh, ex-ForgeRock, head-sales, Southeast Asia region.

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces retirements of Mark Nadel, attorney-adviser, Wireline Bureau, and Diane Burstein, deputy chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau … C Spire promotes President Suzy Hays to CEO, effective July 1, succeeding Hu Meena, who will step up to chairman of Telapex, holding company for C Spire and Franklin Telephone … Sprinklr, unified customer experience management platform, elevates interim Chief Operating Officer Trac Pham to co-CEO alongside current CEO Ragy Thomas; Pham previously was Synopsys chief financial officer ... Celestial AI, optical interconnect technology provider, taps former Siprocal and Astra Space executive Kelyn Brannon as chief financial officer ... HG Insights, data analytics platform for tech companies, appoints former SolarWinds Chief Product Officer Rohini Kasturi as CEO and board member ... Clari, AI-powered revenue platform, hires former Envoy and Skybox Security executive Claire Darling as chief marketing officer.

GSMA announces Mats Granryd stepping down as director general after Mobile World Congress Barcelona in 2025, departing from the role at the end of March, then becoming special adviser for the remainder of 2025 … Solomon Partners hires Solange Velazquez, ex-William Blair & Co, as managing director-tech group … Evolution Equity Partners, cybersecurity venture capital firm, adds Sinet CEO Heather Rodriguez as a venture partner-leader of firm’s chief information security officer advisory council ... Concordant, policy and communications advisory firm, hires Debbie Anderson-Brooke, ex-Convoy, as president and head-AI, data and robotics practice group, and Andrew Stern, ex-ICR Consilium, as vice president-media relations.