Newly appointed members of Virgin Music Group’s reorganized global leadership team: Jay Blomquist, chief technology officer; Jeremy Kramer, executive vice president-global marketing; Joy Larocca, executive vice president-chief financial officer; Zack Gershen, executive vice president-global commercial and digital strategy; Liz Morentin, senior vice president-global communications and brand strategy; Matt Sawin, head-global product strategy and operations; and Nina Rabe-Cairns, head-global growth strategy ... Render Networks, geospatial network infrastructure company, names Esri's Rob Laudati vice president-product and partnerships ... Simpli.fi, advertising performance platform for media companies and agencies, taps Meriplex’s Evan Kolter as CFO, succeeding departing Andries Marx, staying on through year-end ... Visa announces Alfred Kelly to retire as chairman and board member, effective Jan. 23, then remaining a senior adviser until Feb. 15; board names lead independent director John Lundgren to succeed Kelly as chair, subject to his reelection to the board at the January annual meeting.
Riedel Communications names European Media Group’s Lucy O’Brien director-customer success, Europe, the Middle East and Africa ... Spectrotel, communication services provider, names Observe.ai’s Robert Fish, also ex-Intelisys, vice president-south region channel sales ... Truecaller, global communications platform, names MetaMap’s Ogochukwu Onwuzurike country manager-Nigeria, and Uber’s Nicolas Vargas country manager-Colombia ... Video compression company Reticulate Micro adds former American Battery Metals CEO Doug Cole and Ian Subel, Fogel Capital Partners managing director, to its board ... PacketFabric, network-as-a-service company, announces Vincent English, ex-Megaport, as CEO … Sigmoid, data engineering and AI consulting firm, taps Shankar Viswanathan, ex-Procter & Gamble, as chief commercial officer.
Airgain, wireless connectivity solutions provider, names Evan Jones, ex-Sierra Wireless, vice president-engineering ... Luna Innovations, fiber telecom company, taps Intelsat’s George Gomez-Quintero as chief financial officer; departing CFO Gene Nestro will assist company through transition until mid-2024 ... Metaverse company The Sandbox names PlayStation Studios’ Nicola Sebastiani chief content officer, promotes Mathieu Nouzareth to chief business officer, and moves Chief Growth Officer Amit Kumar to chief marketing officer ... Bluepeak appoints Leslie Norgren, from WideOpenWest, vice president-marketing … Lantronix names board member Jason Cohenour interim chairman following Saturday's death of Chairman Paul Folino.
1Global, telecom company headquartered in London, adds former Vodafone Germany CEO Hannes Ametsreiter to its board as a nonexecutive director ... WeWork, flexible workspace provider, names David Tolley CEO; Tolley was interim WeWork CEO since May, and previously was Intelsat chief financial officer ... Morse Micro, fabless semiconductor company specializing in IoT connectivity, hires Stryker’s Prakash Guda as vice president-marketing and product management ... Internet service provider Smartaira names Hotwire’s Darren Rish, also ex-Comcast, CEO, and moves founder and former CEO Dan Terheggen to board chairman.
With Microsoft’s closing Friday of its $69 billion Activision Blizzard buy, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick tells employees he will remain in that role through the end of 2023, reporting to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer ... SES names Adel Al-Saleh CEO, effective in February; he has been CEO of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems International since January 2018; interim SES CEO Ruy Pinto will continue in that role through January, then will remain an executive team member until June before becoming adviser; Milton Torres, who succeeded Pinto as chief technology officer on an interim basis when Pinto became interim CEO, will continue in that role ... Comcast moves Javier Garcia to senior vice president-competitive marketing and strategy, Central Division headquarters in Atlanta ... S&P Global Mobility names Jato Dynamics’ Matt Weiss executive director-product strategy and pricing solutions, newly created role ... Dollar General rehires board member Todd Vasos as CEO, succeeding Jeff Owen, whose separation is effective immediately; Vasos was Dollar General CEO from June 2015 to November 2022, and he agreed to return in that role "for the foreseeable future."
Pantheon, website operations platform for developers, designers and marketers, names Berrie De Vet, ex-Acquia and Sitecore, vice president-sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific regions ... CallRail, AI-powered lead intelligence platform, adds Jewel Burks Solomon, Collab Capital founder and managing partner, and ex-Google, to its board ... Somos, provider of phone number administration and identity management services, adds CasselRoad founder-CEO TJ Thinakaran to its advisory board.
Mobile communications company Movius names Nextiva’s Chethan Visweswar chief product officer ... Cisco adds former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman to its board; current board members Michele Burns, Rod McGeary and Lisa Su won’t seek reelection at Cisco's December annual meeting ... Wildr, AI-powered social media platform, taps Vidit Drolia, one of its co-founders, also ex-Robinhood and Google, as CEO; former CEO Melissa Ravi remains on Wildr's executive team as chief operations officer ... HWG elects Jennifer Bagg as managing partner; she continues to advise tech and communications … FTI Consulting says Senior Managing Directors Luke Schaeffer and Victor Font will co-lead newly launched FTI Delta, which focuses on telecom, media and technology and public sector … Former media brokers Greg Guy and Larry Patrick dissolve Patrick Communications, with Guy forming Tideline Partners and Patrick creating Patrick Media Brokerage ... BAE Systems promotes Dan Sallet to senior vice president-finance, succeeding Guy Montminy, retiring in 2024 … ATIS names David Young, ex-Verizon, vice president-technology and solutions, succeeding Mike Nawrocki, retiring … Motion Picture Association appoints Terrica Carrington, from Copyright Alliance, senior counsel-director, law, policy and international ... Y Combinator, startup accelerator company, names Luther Lowe, ex-Yelp, head-public policy ... Broadcasters Foundation of America elects Adrienne Roark, CBS News, Stations and CBS Media Venture, to its board.
Charter Communications names MSG Entertainment’s Jamal Haughton executive vice president-general counsel and corporate secretary, effective Nov. 6, succeeding Rick Dykhouse, who previously announced his plans to retire, but will remain executive counsel to CEO Chris Winfrey ... Nielsen promotes Warren Jenson to president, in addition to his current role as chief financial officer ... Broadband Forum promotes Craig Thomas to CEO, effective Jan. 1, following year-end retirement of current Managing Director Ken Ko ... Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue names Antaris’ Colette LaForce, also ex-Advanced Micro Designs, its first chief marketing officer ... Content commerce platform Vudoo taps Atonik Digital founder Nathalie Curtis-Lethbridge as global chief growth officer and managing director-Europe, Middle East and Africa and North America ... Ethernet chipmaker Astera Labs names MaxLinear’s Nicholas Aberle vice president-treasurer and investor relations ... Gemini XIII, audio entertainment and advertising company, names SXM Media’s Chris Long chief revenue officer.
Online marketplace Shein names Claure Group founder-CEO Marcelo Claure, also ex-SoftBank Group and Sprint, group vice chairman in addition to remaining Shein Latin America chairman ... F5, multicloud application services company, adds Claure Group Executive Vice President Michel Combes, also ex-SoftBank Group, to its board, expanding it to 11 members; Combes previously was on F5's board from July 2018 to March 2021 ... GigNet, Mexican Caribbean fiber regional broadband network operator, names Liberty Networks’ Angel Gonzalez chief financial officer ... Futurum Group, global tech advisory, media and research firm, names former Glu Mobile Chairman-CEO Niccolo de Masi chairman ... Newly elected Voice on the Net Coalition officers: John Murphy, Nextiva, chair; Brendan Kasper, 8x8, president; Sarah Halko, Telnyx, secretary; and Jessica Jones, Twilio, director.
Howard Hughes Holdings names Anton Nikodemus, ex-MGM Resorts International, CEO of its new Seaport Entertainment division, to be spun off as an independent public company by year-end 2024 ... Semtech, cloud connectivity service provider, hires MKS Instruments’ Mark Lin as executive vice president-chief financial officer, succeeding Emeka Chukwu ... Commvault, cloud data protection platform, names Cohesity’s Richard Gadd senior vice president-Europe, Middle East, Africa and India region.