FCC announces Precision Agriculture Connectivity Task Force working group members, including Mapping and Analyzing Connectivity on Agricultural Lands Working Group Chair Joseph Carey, special government employee, and Vice Chair Brad Robison, CEO-Tallahatchie Valley Electric Power Association and Tallahatchie Valley Internet Services; Examining Current and Future Connectivity Demand for Precision Agriculture Working Group Chair Joy Sterling, CEO-Iron Horse Vineyards, and Vice Chair Steven Strickland, director-partnerships and channels at Ericsson; and Encouraging Adoption of Precision Agriculture and Availability of High-Quality Jobs on Connected Farms Working Group Chair Joshua Seidemann, vice president-policy, NTCA, and Vice Chair Alex Thomasson, professor-Mississippi State University Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Accelerating Broadband Deployment on Unserved Agricultural Lands Working Group Chair Heather Hampton-Knodle, vice president/secretary-Knodle Ltd. Farms, and Vice Chair Jarrett Taubman, vice president/deputy chief government affairs and regulatory officer-Viasat.
Comtech hires Jeff Robertson, ex-Intrado Life Safety, as president-terrestrial and wireless networks business segment ... Tencent Music Entertainment Group announces resignation of Zhenyu Xie as president and chief technology officer, and names Chief Financial Officer Shirley Hu to replace him on Tencent’s board, both effective March 31; Xie will remain a Tencent consultant ... Secureworks adds former General Electric executive William Cary to its board ... Contentsquare names Gabriel Benavides, ex-Medallia, global chief revenue officer ... PA Media Group promotes Emily Shelley to CEO, replacing Clive Marshall, retiring ... Abnormal Security, AI-native cloud email security company, taps Okta’s Smita Sanadhya, also former HP and Microsoft, as chief financial officer, and Jeff True, ex-Zoom, as chief legal officer.
Scott Harris announces his departure from NTIA as senior spectrum adviser and director-national spectrum strategy (see 2403210031) … NAB hires Gabriela Sibori, ex-Department of Health and Human Services, as senior director-communications … Arkose Labs, bot management and account security company, names Patrick Kehoe, ex-Coalfire, chief marketing officer ... Nozomi Networks, IoT security company, hires Kevin Isaac, ex-Forcepoint, Symantec and Sophos, as chief revenue officer ... Rockwell Automation taps McKesson’s Stephen Ford, also former HP, as vice president-chief information security officer ... The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration adds Kristin Houston, Aerojet Rocketdyne president-space propulsion and power systems, and Jim Kalberer, Northrop Grumman vice president-propulsion systems, to board.
ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development announces new commissioners, including FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel; Abel Avellan, CEO-AST SpaceMobile; Mark Dankberg, CEO-Viasat; Shameel Joosub, CEO-Vodacom; Isabelle Mauro, director general-Global Satellite Operator’s Association; and Deemah AlYahya, secretary general-Digital Cooperation Organization... Phillips Lytle names partner Richard Marinaccio to lead law firm’s newly launched AI practice team ... Brown Gibbons Lang investment bank and financial advisory firm adds Stifel’s Jason Myler as a managing director within its tech team.
NARUC appoints Commissioner Maida Coleman, of the Missouri Public Service Commission, as new chair of its Select Committee on Regulatory and Industry Diversity, succeeding Virginia State Corp. Commission Judge Jehmal Hudson, who now chairs the NARUC Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment ... Nielsen taps Byju's Group’s Anil Goel, also former Amazon, as chief engineering officer ... Panasas, data solutions provider for high-performance computing and AI, hires Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Paul Hiemstra as chief financial officer ... Futurum Group’s Cybersphere cybersecurity practice forms new chief information security officer advisory board, naming as inaugural members: Marene Allison, retired CISO, Johnson & Johnson; Gary Hayslip, CISO, SoftBank Investment Advisors and SoftBank Group; Stacy Mill, CEO, Pivot Tech Solutions; Jonathan Nguyen-Duy, field CISO, Intel; Holly Ridgeway, executive vice president-chief security officer, Citizens Bank; and Matthew Rosenquist, CISO, Mercury Risk ...
NetApp names Pure Storage’s Alessandra Yockelson, also former Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Diageo and Philips, chief human resources officer ... Coalfire, cybersecurity solutions company, names former IBM executive Charles Henderson executive vice president-cybersecurity services ... RightCrowd, provider of physical identity and access management solutions, hires Jason Bohrer, former executive director of the Secure Technology Alliance, also onetime Motorola executive, as CEO ... Five9, global customer experience platform, taps former Gartner analyst Steve Blood as vice president-market intelligence and evangelism ... Logitech announces departure of Chief Financial Officer Charles Boynton, effective mid-May, no successor named.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces additions to the Bureau of Media Relations: Raven Hill, from the Maryland Department of Education, as co-deputy director; Becky Lockhart, from the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; Laura Nichols, ex-Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, as digital director; and Jason Schiavoni, ex-Smithsonian Institution, as website/digital experience director; and the retirements of David Wright from the Public Safety Bureau; Wayne Liang, from the Enforcement Bureau; Vanessa Lamb from the Office of Managing Director; and Hillary Burchuk from the Office of Inspector General.
Comtech taps Chief Corporate Development Officer John Ratigan as interim CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Ken Peterman, terminated as president-CEO and from the board for conduct unrelated to Comtech’s business strategy, financial results or previously filed financial statements; Comtech also elects current board member Mark Quinlan as chair ... Equinix, digital infrastructure company, names Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin president-CEO, succeeding Charles Meyers, moving to executive chairman to replace Peter Van Camp, becoming special adviser, all effective late Q2 ... People.ai, generative AI company, hires Microsoft’s Linda Simovic as executive vice president-chief product officer ... PayPal hires SoFi’s Aaron Webster as executive vice president-chief enterprise services officer, effective Monday ... New Enterprise Associates, global venture capital firm, taps Microsoft Deputy Chief Technology Officer Lila Tretikov as partner and head-AI strategy.
Paychex appoints WestCap Partners’ Beaumont Vance senior vice president-data, analytics and AI ... Deepwatch, managed security platform, adds retired Booz Allen Hamilton executive Bill Phelps to its board ... DeNexus, cyber risk modeling platform for industrial networks, names Iberdrola Group’s Rosa Kariger to its board ... MightyID, identity resilience solutions provider, appoints Vishal Amin, Microsoft Federal Defense general manager-security solutions, to its advisory board.
Cogeco and Cogeco Communications promote Frederic Perron to president-CEO of both companies and add him to their boards, succeeding Philippe Jette, retiring, but remaining a strategic adviser until Aug. 31 ... Young’s Communications names Chief Operating Officer Rob Hughart interim CEO to replace outgoing CEO Chad Rasmussen ... Altice USA taps John Hsu, ex-AMC Networks, as senior vice president-corporate finance, and John Lombana, ex-Mitsubishi Power Americas, also former Verizon and AT&T, as senior vice president-corporate controller ... Rohirrim, generative AI company, taps Andrew Shoaff, ex-Zywave, as vice president-customer success, and Nintendo’s Savani Tatake, also former Meta and T-Mobile, as vice president-engineering.