Wavsys names Tim Courtney as president.
NTIA names Chief Counsel Mike Cannon executive director and CEO, FirstNet Authority ... Alaskan telecom provider MTA CEO Michael Burke is retiring in September; search for replacement is underway … Changes at Corning: Avery Nelson elected executive vice president; he will also become COO when President and COO Eric Musser retires later this year; Lewis Steverson elected vice chairman and executive vice president; John Zhang elected executive vice president and chief corporate development officer.
Sinclair's Tennis Channel names Jeff Blackburn, ex-Amazon, chairman and CEO, replacing Ken Solomon, who left last year … Television Bureau of Advertising President and CEO Steve Lanzano will retire at year’s end; a nationwide search for his replacement is underway … Rivada Space Networks appoints Mustafa Afifi as sales director-Middle East region.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr names Joseph Calascione, ex-Akin Gump and FCC, Wireline Bureau chief, replacing acting Chief Trent Harkrader ... Vonage promotes Seckin Arikan to COO; Christophe Van de Weyer, formerly Proximus Group, replaces him as president and head of business unit API … Changes at TowerCom: George Davis promoted to CEO; Matt Richard to CFO, replacing Dave Olson, a board member; Chip Bulloch to senior vice president-East, a new position; John Stevens, ex-Boingo Wireless, joins as regional vice president-West, replacing Chris Colton, deceased ... Correction: Trent Harkrader, who has stepped down as acting FCC Wireless Bureau chief, has been at the agency since 1999 (see 2504280019).
Trent Harkrader steps down as FCC's acting Wireline Bureau chief; FCC retirements include: Public Safety Bureau Associate Chief Jeffery Goldthorp (22 years of service); Wireless Bureau's John Lambert (17); from Office of General Counsel: Lori Alexiou (21) and Larry Atlas (18) ... The U.K. Office of Communications names to three-year terms on new online information advisory committee: Elisabeth Costa, Behavioural Insights Team; Jeffrey Howard, University College London; Will Moy, Campbell Collaboration; Mark Scott, Atlantic Council; and Devika Shanker-Grandpierre, EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation.
Nonprofit digital technology accelerator Numana names Bernard Duval, Mitacs, president and CEO, succeeding Francois Borrelli, who will continue as special adviser and ambassador for the Kirq project.
Denny Law, CEO of Golden West Telecommunications and president of SDN Communications board, is retiring from both positions, effective May 9 … Communications infrastructure investor and provider Uniti Group names John Harrobin, ex-Frontier Communications, as Kinetic president, effective following the close of Uniti’s merger with Windstream Holdings, expected in the second half of 2025 … Logix Fiber Networks promotes Jim Hintze to chief revenue officer, a new position.
Jeremy Marcus, ex-FCC Enforcement Bureau, joins Lerman Senter ... SurgePays promotes Derron Winfrey to president-sales and operations ... Plume, maker of a SaaS platform for communications service providers, names Daniel Herscovici, ex-Edison Partners, as president and CEO ... EuNetworks Group appoints Marisa Trisolino, formerly CMC Networks, as CEO, while interim CEO Kevin Dean becomes chairman, both effective May 12 ... Thrive appoints Kimberly Saturley, formerly Aqua Security, chief people officer.
Telesat Government Solutions names retired Air Force Col. Ronald Thompson, ex-LinQuest, vice president-growth ... MetTel adds Erika Dinnie, formerly U.S. General Services Administration, as vice president-federal strategy and planning, a new post ... VoIP provider Virtual Technologies Group appoints Greg Yarrington, formerly ECI, as COO and executive vice president-technology ... Cloud services provider Hivelocity names Matt Schatz, ex-Flowspace, chief revenue officer ... Bill Owens resigns as executive producer of CBS’ 60 Minutes.
FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington appoints conservative activist Gavin Wax as chief of staff and names Thomas Struble, who had been on detail from the FCC to the Senate Commerce Committee, as senior legal adviser.