Southern Co. hires Bentina Terry from Southern subsidiary Georgia Power as president-CEO of Southern Communications, with responsibility for leading the Southern Linc and Southern Telecom business units, and Arnab Ghosal as Southern Telecom vice president-chief operating officer in addition to his current role at Alabama Power, another Southern subsidiary, both effective Jan. 1 ... Telecon promotes Executive Vice President-Chief Customer Officer Robert Pothier to president-CEO and adds him to its board ... LastPass hires Barracuda’s Don MacLennan, also former McAfee, as chief product officer ... Space habitation company Vast adds former Apple 20-year industrial design veteran Peter Russell-Clarke as an industrial design adviser ... Innovid, connected TV advertising platform, names ExecOnline’s Dani Cushion chief marketing officer ... Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi’s hybrid cloud management subsidiary, names Palo Alto Networks’ Tony Gonnella chief financial officer ... USTelecom announces Ben Elleson, ex-office of Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., as senior director-government affairs … TDS Telecommunications adds vice president-data management position for Steve Mathesius, who also continues chief information security officer, leading cybersecurity and risk management functions at TDS Telecom and parent company, Telephone and Data Systems.

Juice Media, advertising and tech media group, hires Hyperplane founder Sachin Gupta, also ex-Roku, as chief technology officer, and MadTech’s Jeff Mayo, also former LinkedIn and Google, as chief product officer ... Senate confirms to the U.S. Agency for Global Media's International Broadcasting Advisory Board: Luis Botello, special adviser, International Center for Journalists; Jamie Fly, CEO, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; Jeffrey Gedmin, Georgetown University senior fellow; Michelle Giuda, CEO, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University; Kenneth Jarin, partner, Ballard Spahr and also named advisory board chair; and Kathleen Matthews, former Marriott International chief communications and public affairs officer ... Hewlett Packard Enterprise hires HP Inc.’s Marie Myers as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Jan. 15; Jeremy Cox, interim CFO since August, will return full time to his roles as senior vice president-corporate controller and chief tax officer, reporting to Myers ... Ballard Spahr hires Courtney Adams Thornton, ex-Troutman Pepper, as of counsel, intellectual property, trademarks and copyright, Atlanta office.

Fetch, rewards app and consumer-engagement platform, hires former Google, Waze, TikTok and Epic Games executive Dan Brough as general manager-agencies, newly created position ... Peloton taps Intuit’s Lauren Weinberg as chief marketing officer, replacing Leslie Berland ... Zendesk adds Kelly Grier, Ernst & Young's U.S. chair and managing partner and Americas managing partner emeritus, to its board ... Sila, battery materials company, hires Abbey Omokhodion, from Intel’s Programmable Solutions group, as chief financial officer, succeeding Warren DeSouza, staying with Sila for the next month before becoming an adviser ... SponsorUnited, sports and entertainment intelligence platform, taps Repsly’s David Mann, also former Constant Contact, as CFO.

FCC staff changes: Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces retirements of Jeff Tobias from the Wireless Bureau; Steve Jones and Stanley Lyles, Office of Engineering and Technology; Penny Blalock, Gloria Conway and Janice Wise, Media Bureau; Eliot Greenwald and Gayle Teicher, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; and Larry Shields and MaryKay Mitchell, Office of Managing Director; Commissioner Brendan Carr announces policy adviser Greg Watson becomes chief of staff, succeeding Ben Arden, who returns to Media Bureau; Commissioner Geoffrey Starks’ legal adviser Morgan Bodenarain departs to become policy director-counsel to Congressional Black Caucus ….Google Fiber promotes Vice President of Product John Keib to company’s first chief technology and product officer.

Frameplay, in-game advertising platform, hires Skai’s Sandy Shanman, also former Samba TV, as chief operating officer, and Google’s Vishal Arora as chief technology officer... IBM elects Marianne Brown, former Fidelity National Information Services COO, to its board ... The Arena Group tech platform and media company terminates the employment of CEO Ross Levinsohn, and names majority owner Manoj Bhargava interim CEO; Levinsohn's termination follows last week's firing of Chief Operating Officer Andrew Kraft, Media President Rob Barrett and corporate counsel Julie Fenster ... Ayar Labs, silicon photonics company for “chip-to-chip connectivity,” names co-founder and CTO Mark Wade its next CEO, succeeding Charles Wuischpard, serving in an advisory capacity before transitioning out of the company in mid-January ... Cybersecurity company Resillion, formerly Eurofins Digital Testing, names Qualitest co-founder Yaron Kottler executive chairman; previous Resillion CEO Dik Vos takes a board seat as a nonexecutive director ... Webcomics platform Webtoon Entertainment hires Inevitable Tech's David Lee, also former Zynga, as chief financial officer and COO, and promotes Yongsoo Kim to chief strategy officer.

Crown Castle announces CEO Jay Brown is retiring, effective Jan. 16; board member Anthony Melone to become interim CEO during a replacement search ... GlobalFoundries appoints Silicon Labs Chief Financial Officer John Hollister as CFO, effective Feb. 5; Silicon Labs announces Chief Accounting Officer Mark Mauldin will be named interim CFO when the “handover” is completed by Feb. 2, while search is underway for Hollister’s permanent replacement ... AeroVironment hires Mercury Systems’ Church Hutton, also former Sierra Nevada, as vice president-government relations ... RingCentral returns founder Vlad Shmunis to his full-time role as CEO, replacing departed Tarek Robbiati; Shmunis also remains RingCentral chairman ... Gather AI taps Kiva systems' founding engineer Andrew Hoffman as chief technology officer.

Spotify to “part ways” with Chief Financial Officer Paul Vogel, effective March 31; it launches “external search” for his successor, and in the interim names Ben Kung, vice president-financial planning and analysis, to “take on expanded responsibilities to support the company’s realignment of its financial leadership team” ... Analog Devices adds Stanford University economist Peter Henry to its board, expanding it to 13 members ... Theater chain owner Cineworld Group names Aimbridge Hospitality’s Thomas Song CFO ... Commvault promotes Anthony Anzevino to senior vice president-Americas field organization.

Verizon hires Leslie Berland, ex-Peloton and also former Twitter, as chief marketing officer, effective Jan. 9 ... Davis Wright adds Gerald Stein, a former attorney in the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, as a partner in its New York office ... Telecommunications Association of Michigan taps Consumers Energy’s Michael Rampe, also formerly with the Miller Canfield law firm, as its next general counsel, replacing Michael Holmes, moving to new role as legal adviser ... Calendly hires Sisu’s Jigar Desai, also former Meta and ex-PayPal, as chief technology officer ... Options Technology, provider of IT infrastructure to capital markets firms, promotes Vice President-Corporate Controller Laura McCann to chief financial officer, replacing Jon Lambert, who moves to senior vice president-corporate development ... Digital paper tablet company reMarkable hires former Bose President-CEO Philip Hess as its next CEO, effective Jan. 1; Magnus Haug Wanberg, founder and executive chairman, relinquishes CEO post with Hess’ arrival.

Disney promotes Tracy Underwood to ABC Signature president … Comtech hires former iDirect Government CEO John Ratigan as its first chief corporate development officer ... Publishers Clearing House Media taps Innovid’s Tim Braz as chief revenue officer ... SkyePoint Decisions, cybersecurity solutions provider to the federal government, promotes Heather Newlin to chief strategy officer ... PayPal hires Fiserv’s Suzan Kereere as president-global markets, effective Jan. 1 ... American Weekend Entertainment adds ConroyCo Ventures CEO Kevin Conroy to its advisory board ... Gallup rehires William Kruse, CFA Institute deputy general counsel, as general counsel; he's Gallup's former senior counse-public sector division.

Spectrum Effect, RF interference mitigation company, adds Boulder Ventures General Partner Kishen Mangat to its board, expanding it to seven members; Mangat leads his firm’s enterprise 5G investment strategy, and was previously Cisco’s vice president-general manager, mobility ... Tempest, telecom network solutions provider, hires Greater Tech Holdings’ Joe Hart, also former AT&T, as CEO; outgoing Chief Operating Officer Dan Firestone moves to board adviser role, effective Dec. 31 ... Fiber solutions provider Accelecom taps former Evermore Consulting Group founder Van Macatee, also former TCI Cable and Sprint, as chief operations officer ... SightGain, cybersecurity risk management company, hires Jerry Hoff, former NTT and ex-Sony, as CEO; Christian Sorensen, SightGain’s founder and previous CEO, moves to chief risk officer ... Ad management firm Mediavine promotes Jamie Lieberman to chief legal officer.