FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel appoints Jayne Stancavage, vice president-policy and regulatory affairs, as chair of agency’s World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee and Kimberly Baum, Eutelsat vice president-spectrum engineering and strategy, as vice chair … Perplexity AI company names Emil Michael, former Uber chief business officer; Rich Miner, ex-Google; and Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft CEO-advertising and web services, as strategic advisers … Cirrus Logic announces resignation of Chief Financial Officer Venk Nathamuni, and names Principal Accounting Officer Ulf Habermann interim CFO, effective with Nathamuni’s Friday departure ... AEG Presents promotes Senior Vice President-Venue Operations Nick Spampanato to chief operating officer-venues ... Box adds Epicor Software CEO Steve Murphy to its board, replacing John Park as investor KKR’s board designee ... SIP Forum elects Iconectiv Chief Technology Officer Steve Tang and Numeracle General Counsel Keith Buell to board.
MPA announces Jesse Martin, former senior director-BSA |The Software Alliance, as senior vice president-associate general counsel, content protection and legal affairs … Anthropic AI safety and research company taps Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, also ex-Artifact, as chief product officer … National CineMedia taps former PHD Media U.S. CEO Catherine Sullivan, also ex-Omnicom Media Group, as president-sales, marketing and partnerships ... AiOla, AI-powered enterprise speech recognition platform, hires former Wix, Cisco and Intel executive Alon Peleg as chief operating officer ... VisualVault, cloud-based enterprise content management platform, names Deepak Vedarthan, ex-Pegasystems, as vice president to lead its professional services organization ... Saviynt, provider of cloud-native identity and governance platform solutions, hires former Gartner identity and access management analyst Henrique Teixeira as senior vice president-strategy ... Red River, tech transformation company for government and enterprise customers, names Concetta Yates, ex-SS&C Blue Prism, head-data analytics and AI ... Wireless Infrastructure Association appoints Fullerton CEO Kelly Lazuka and APC Towers President-CEO Daniel Agresta to board … AST SpaceMobile to appoint AT&T Head-Network Chris Sambar to its board as part of new AT&T/AST commercial agreement to bring first space-based broadband network direct to “everyday” cellphones.
Ulas Karademir, ex-RealityOS, returns to videogame developer and publisher IO Interactive, becoming chief technology officer ... Sterling Infrastructure promotes Vice President-Finance Sharon Villaverde to chief financial officer-chief accounting officer, succeeding Ron Ballschmiede, remaining executive vice president until his planned retirement later this year ... Digimarc taps Carle Quinn, ex-Workato, as chief people officer ... Ninjio, cybersecurity awareness training company, names Jon Dion, ex-AuditBoard, chief revenue officer ... SmartBear, software development company, hires Allego’s Amy Cohn as chief people officer ... Upstream Security, cybersecurity detection and response platform for connected vehicles and IoT, appoints former Gartner executive partner Toshiya Sato, also ex-Fujitsu, as president-Japan ... Fortune Live Media hires Kristin Stoller, ex-Forbes, as editorial director.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces as co-leaders of new Spectrum Steering Team Susan Mort, deputy chief-Wireless Bureau, and Ira Keltz, deputy chief-Office of Engineering and Technology; OET Legal Adviser Krista Witanowski becomes chief of staff (see 2405140027) … Open Geospatial Consortium taps Peter Rabley, co-founder of the data trust nonprofit Place, as CEO ... FleishmanHillard rehires Scott Radcliffe from Apple as global director-cybersecurity; he previously served as FleishmanHillard’s senior global data privacy and security expert before leading Apple’s cybersecurity communications.
NASA appoints David Salvagnini as the agency's first chief AI officer, in an expansion of Salvagnini's current role as chief data officer ... Mitek, digital identity and fraud prevention platform, terminating employment of CEO Max Carnecchia, effective May 31, naming Executive Chairman Scott Carter interim CEO, effective June 1 ... SpinLaunch, space tech company, elevates Chief Operating Officer David Wrenn to CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Jonathan Yaney ... Cohesity, AI-powered data security company, hires Craig Martell, former DOD chief digital and AI officer, as chief technology officer ... Lantronix appoints Mathi Gurusamy, ex-Mobilogix and Telit Cinterion, as chief strategy officer.
Entravision promotions: Mark Boelke to chief financial officer and treasurer, succeeding Christopher Young, departing; Corporate Controller Bill McNally to also chief accounting officer; Jeff DeMartino to general counsel and secretary, succeeding Boelke; Chief Strategy Officer Juan Saldivar departing Entravision, his responsibilities to be assumed by existing members of the management team ... Ford names CFO John Lawler vice chair, with expanded role in Ford+ strategic growth initiative, and hires Sherry House, ex-Lucid Motors, as vice president-finance, part of a plan to succeed Lawler as CFO in early 2025; both assignments are effective in June ... AEG Presents promotes Brent Fedrizzi to president-North American regional offices ... Wipro elevates Vinay Firake to CEO of its Asia Pacific, India, Middle East and Africa strategic market unit and adds him to its executive board.
Tredence, AI solutions company, names Munjay Singh, ex-Infosys, chief operating officer ... Integral Ad Science, global media measurement and optimization platform, hires Cameron Miille, ex-FreeWheel, as chief revenue officer of Publica by IAS, its connected TV ad server subsidiary ... Talkdesk hires Simon Horrocks, ex-Harness.io, as Asia-Pacific leader ... IAB Tech Lab software-as-a-service platform adds Optable Chief Product Officer and co-founder Bosko Milekic to its board ... AtScale, provider of semantic layer solutions for generative AI, adds Mark Palmer, founder-CEO of tech consultancy firm Techno-Sapien, and Sandhill East President Roseann Palmieri, also former Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, to its board.
Jennifer Manner, EchoStar senior vice president-regulatory affairs, says she's leaving May 22 to become NTIA senior adviser-space and satellite policy, effective June 3 … Glenn Richards, former Pillsbury Winthrop partner in communications, announces he’s joining Dickinson Wright as partner … Stream Security, cloud detection and response company, names Patrick Guay, ex-Pentera, chief revenue officer ... New CNN International Commercial’s Asia Pacific leadership team: Karen Lay, ex-Sportfive and former Disney/ESPN, joins as director-commercial distribution; Sally Young returns to CNN in an advertising sales leadership role with a renewed focus on Greater China; and Kimmy Ho advances to senior director-content sales and licensing.
AST SpaceMobile, space-based cellular broadband network company, hires 3D Systems’ Andrew Johnson as chief legal officer ... Lumen Technologies appoints Sabre’s Chad Ho as executive vice president-chief legal officer, effective next month; he succeeds Stacey Goff, remaining “a few weeks” for transition … Vsora AI chip startup announces former Stimio CEO David Dorval as vice president-operations and test …Cyemptive Technologies, cybersecurity solutions provider for business and government, names former IBM and Hitachi executive Wessel Graatsma vice president-cybersecurity solutions, Europe ... Searchlight Cyber, dark web intelligence company, names Tim Warner, ex-Zscaler, vice president-global enterprise sales ... Blue Sky Networks becomes part of NAL Research with NAL President Robert Bills leading the combined company ... MwareTV cloud-based multitenant platform provider taps Daniel Conde Coto, ex-Emergent, as director-sales operations.
NAB hires Kirsten Donaldson, ex-Digital Media Association, as vice president-public policy … Hyland, intelligent content software provider, adds Informatica’s Jitesh Ghai as president-CEO, effective May 20 ... NetApp hires Cisco's Dallas Olson as chief commercial officer ... Twilio taps Chris Koehler, ex-Box, as chief marketing officer ... Amazon agency My Amazon Guy adds Seller Interactive’s Ken Zhou as chief operating officer ... Equifax taps SoFi’s Chad Borton as executive vice president and president-workforce solutions to succeed retiring Rudy Ploder ... Hearst Television promotes Senior Vice President Nick Radziul to executive vice president ... D.A. Davidson hires William Blair’s Gary Morabito as managing director, tech equity capital markets ... Allied Entertainment names Yangyang Li president in addition to his continuing role as chairman; Yinghua Chen resigns her board seat, but will continue as CEO; Chi Zhao, research fellow at the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School, joins Allied board as an independent director; WPT Enterprises President Adam Pliska resigns his board seat.