SoundExchange names Peter Karafotas, ex-chief of staff to then-Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., senior vice president-government relations and public policy, succeeding Linda Bloss-Baum, left for a position at American University ... BCE names Nielsen’s Sean Cohan Bell Media president, effective Nov. 1, succeeding retiring Wade Oosterman, remaining BCE vice chair until early January ... Intel names Sandra Rivera CEO of its Programmable Solutions Group (PSG), effective Jan. 1 when it becomes a stand-alone business; she remains head of Intel’s Data Center and AI Group until a replacement is found; Shannon Poulin becomes chief operating officer of PSG ... Digimarc taps HireVue’s Tom Benton, also ex-Oracle, Salesforce and Workmarket, as chief revenue officer ... Video production house Studio Sage promotes Kate Whalley to director.

Networking systems company Ciena promotes Dino DiPerna to senior vice president-global R&D, and Brodie Gage to senior vice president-global products and supply chain, adding them both to its executive leadership team, effective Oct. 27 ... Hispanic Information Telecommunications Network adds Carmen Hernandez, Clayco executive vice president-general counsel, to its board ... Dating app Bumble adds Sissie Hsiao, Google vice president-general manager, Google Assistant and Bard, to its board ... MELS, Canadian film and TV production services company, names Quebecor Media’s Patrick Jutras president ... Video tech company Neat hires Janine Pelosi, ex-Zoom, as CEO, replacing co-founder and former CEO Simen Teigre, moving to new role as chief-emerging innovations; Pelosi and Teigre will sit on Neat’s board ... Ipsos MMA names DDB’s Roopa Choodamani vice president-analytic consulting.

Tegna names Kristie Gonzales president-general manager at WXIA/WATL in Atlanta, effective Oct. 23, in addition to continuing as Tegna vice president-media operations ... Utah Aerospace and Defense Association appoints former Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, its new chair ... Internet marketing service RTB House hires Michael Lamb, former PayPal general manager-consumer, as chief commercial officer ... E-commerce fulfillment company Oplog names Azeem Baig, ex-Amazon, vice president-fulfillment ... Pitney Bowes names Executive Vice President-Group President Jason Dies interim CEO; Marc Lautenbach departs as president-CEO and as a board member, reducing board to eight members ... ALM, media, information and intelligence company, names Altrata’s Richard Green chief commercialization officer ... Voxx International extends contract of CEO Pat Lavelle through February 2025, and names Loriann Shelton chief financial officer, in addition to her current role as chief operating officer, effective March 1, when current CFO-Senior Vice President Michael Stoehr moves to senior vice president-treasurer.

WNET Group promotes Vice President-Development Vanessa Wise to vice president-advancement and chief strategy officer ... Synopsys hires Ampere Computing’s Ann Minooka as chief marketing officer ... TD Synnex, edge-to-cloud IT portfolio company, adds former Kony Chief Financial Officer Kathy Crusco and current Accuris CEO Claude Pumilia to its board, expanding it to 13 members.

New CTIA board members, effective Jan. 1: Jim Cathey, Qualcomm Technologies, as secretary, and members Andrew Davies, Syniverse; Carmine Reppucci, Southern Linc; Brighid Riordan, Nsight-Cellcom; and Lodema Steinbach, Sinch; and joining board for new companies Michael Glickman for Casa Systems and Nathan Johnson for TruConnect Wireless … Computer & Communications Industry Association taps economics consultant and policy expert Matthew Sinclair, former chief economic adviser-10 Downing Street, as senior director of its new London office ... Mattel promotes Robbie Brenner to president-Mattel Films, from Mattel Films executive producer ... Sony Interactive Entertainment President-CEO Jim Ryan to retire in March; Hiroki Totoki, Sony Group president-chief operating officer and chief financial officer, will become SIE chairman in October, and will be appointed interim CEO of SIE, effective April 1, in addition to his current Sony Group roles ... Uber names Analog Devices’ Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah chief financial officer, effective Nov. 13.

Dell Technologies adds former Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf to its board; Simon Patterson, managing director of Silver Lake, resigns his board seat ... Ipsos MMA names Comcast’s Charlie Hinton, also ex-AT&T, vice president-analytic consulting ... Peloton names former Twitter executive Nick Caldwell chief product officer, effective Nov. 1, succeeding co-founder Tom Cortese, moving to advisor ... Sidus Space promotes board member Leonardo Riera to board chair, succeeding founder Carol Craig, who remains CEO, and promotes Jared Novick to chief operating officer ... Seedtag, contextual advertising company, names Taboola’s Seraphina Davey global senior vice president-publisher partnerships and Jana Eisenstein, ex-Microsoft, senior vice president-sales Europe, the Middle East and Africa ... Cybersecurity platform Secuonix hires Skybox Security’s Haggai Polak as chief product officer.

New hires at Grindr, social network for the LGBTQ community: Zac Katz, former FCC chief of staff and chief counsel under President Barack Obama, as general counsel and head-global affairs; Tristan Pineiro, ex-King, also former Netflix, as vice president-brand and communications; and Solmaz Shariat Torbaghan, ex-Varian, as director-AI and machine learning ... NTT Research names Timothee Leleu, ex-University of Tokyo, senior research scientist and a group head-Physics and Informatics (PHI) Lab; it also names Victor Bastidas, from National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, and Maya Okawa, from Kyoto University, research scientists in the PHI Lab; Abhishek Jain, from Johns Hopkins University, joins as senior scientist in the Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab; and Manae Abe, from Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, becomes marketing coordinator; joining NTT Research as post-doctoral fellows are Kyungduk Kim, Midya Parto and Ryotatsu Yanagimoto in the PHI Lab; and Naresh Boddu Goud and Xiao Liang in the CIS Lab ... Faraday Future, electric mobility ecosystem company, names Healthpeak Properties’ Scott Graziano, also ex-Western Digital, global general counsel ... Quantum Computing adds New York University’s Javad Shabani to its technical advisory board, expanding it to four members ... Voyager Space adds former Air Force Chief Scientist Mark Lewis,Purdue Applied Research Institute, to its advisory board ... Spectra7 Microsystems, supplier of analog semiconductor products for broadband connectivity markets, names Kumu Networks’ Steffen Hahn senior vice president-engineering ... Syniverse names Sandra Rose, ex-Santander Consumer USA, chief human resources officer.

Incompas adds Jeff Garte, Boldyn Networks president-Northeast business, to its board ... Global Satellite Operators Association names ManSat Chief Financial Officer Rachel Beattie its new treasurer ... Universal Music Group announces Vice Chair Anna Jones, former Hearst Magazines U.K. CEO, retiring from its board, effective Sept. 30 ... Live events producer ASM Global names Live Nation’s Alex Bowen vice president-live entertainment ... Instacart adds Sequoia Capital partner Ravi Gupta to its board; Gupta was Instacart’s chief financial officer and chief operating officer before leaving for Sequoia in 2019.

Comcast hires Rocky Gupta from General Motors as executive vice president-treasurer, effective later this month ... Splunk President-CEO Gary Steele to join Cisco's executive leadership team when Cisco’s $28 billion Splunk buy is complete by the end of 2024's calendar Q3 ... Changes at Metronet, effective Oct. 1: Dave Heimbach promoted to president-CEO; current CEO John Cinelli moves to executive chairman; Sarah Overbaugh promoted to chief financial officer; current CFO Lohn Weber moves to executive vice president-capital markets, newly created role, and keeps his seat on Metronet’s board of managers ... Ceva, licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies, names Iri Trashanski, ex-GlobalFoundries, chief strategy officer ... Nuso, SaaS communications provider, hires former Bandwidth and Qwest executive Ryan Henley as chief revenue officer ... MIT Technology Review adds MassLive Media President Josh Macht, also former acting CEO-Harvard Business Publishing, to its board ... Balance Theory, cybersecurity ecosystem management platform, adds Optiv co-founder and former CEO Dan Burns to its board ... News/Media Alliance hires solo practioner Neil Quinter, ex-Brownstein and ex-office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., as senior vice president-global government affairs.

Seward & Kissel promotes partner Russell Johnston to co-head of the firm’s Litigation Group, and elevates partner Michael Watling to co-head of its Government Enforcement and Internal Investigations Group ... Inseego, 5G edge solutions company, adds former Sierra Wireless CEO Philip Brace to its board ... Pinterest adds former eBay Chief Financial Officer and interim CEO Scott Schenkel to its board ... AI marketing platform Phrasee names Dan Head, ex-Braze, CEO; founding CEO Parry Malm remains on the board ... Data protection company Commvault names Microsoft’s Sarv Saravanan its first chief customer officer ... RapidDeploy, cloud platform for public safety, names Dami Bullock, ex-Ande Corp., chief revenue officer and David Stack, ex-RepTrak, CFO … NAB Leadership Foundation names to board: Catherine Badalamente of Graham Media Group, Lynn Beall of Tegna, Joe DiScipio of Fox Corp., Chad Matthews of ABC Owned Television Stations Disney Entertainment, Marian Pittman of Cox Media Group, David Santrella of Salem Media Group and Karen Wishart of Urban One.