Competitive Carriers Association elects Ron Whaley, IDI Billing Solutions chief revenue officer, board secretary ... Ribbon Communications names RAD Data’s Joni Roberts senior vice president-chief marketing officer ... Liminal, battery manufacturing intelligence company, taps former LG Energy Solution executive Denise Gray, also ex-General Motors, as strategic adviser ... IntelePeer, communications automation platform, promotes Ujjval Karihaloo to chief product officer ... Qualys names Snyk’s Dino DiMarino CRO.
Chunghwa Telecom promotes Chau-Young Lin to president-Information Technology Group, succeeding Shui-Yi Kuo ... Cybersecurity company Blackpoint Cyber names Optiv’s MacKenzie Brown, also ex-Microsoft, vice president-security ... Oppo promotes Chi Zhou to president-Middle East and Africa region.
New executive hires at Everpass Media, exclusive rights holder of NFL Sunday Ticket for commercial businesses: John Kirk, ex-Joe Hand Productions, chief operating officer; Stephen Tucker, ex-DirecTV, chief financial officer; and Viviana Betancourt Vasquez, ex-WWE and AMC Networks, general counsel ... Booz Allen names former NASA senior executive Tom Whitmeyer an executive adviser in support of its space business ... Bespoke Partners, executive search firm for software companies, promotes Katherine Baker to partner and co-leader of its CEO recruiting practice ... Cloud security company Kivera names Shift5's Joe Lea CEO ... Digital commerce company Flywheel Digital taps Publicis Groupe’s Allysun Lundy as senior vice president-media ... Customer experience company Hero Digital names Horizon Next’s Katie Comerford executive vice president-marketing and media services ... Hyland, content services provider, names former Nteraction board member Brian Schlosser, also former 78 Partners, vice president-partners ... Aqua Security appoints Gilad Elyashar, ex-Microsoft, its first chief product officer.
Perkins Coie’s Belinda Nixon joins Internet2 as vice president-general counsel and corporate secretary … Emnify, IoT connectivity provider, names Deutsche Telekom’s Christopher Ruettgers chief product officer ... Delphi parent company Phinia adds former Disney Chief Diversity Officer Latondra Newton to its board ... Worldly, impact intelligence platform, names Scott Raskin, ex-Quotient Technology, CEO; founding CEO Jason Kibbey will work with Raskin over the summer before becoming founder-president ... Atlas Space Operations names Viasat’s John Williams CEO ... AI software company Elliptic Labs hires Huddly’s Oystein Grimstad, also ex-Cisco, as vice president-product management ... Light & Wonder, cross-platform games and entertainment company, names Senior Vice President-Corporate Finance Oliver Chow interim chief financial officer, effective with Aug. 25 departure of Connie James as executive vice president-CFO, treasurer and corporate secretary ... Valens Semiconductor adds PTK Technologies CEO Peter Kuo to its board, replacing Ker Zhang, Kuo's PTK co-founder ... Fleet Space appoints Matteo Genna, formerly World View Enterprises, as chief technology officer ... Dstny, cloud-based business communications provider, hires Telenet’s Christophe Costers as chief operating officer.
FreeMove Alliance, mobile telecommunications consortium of Deutsche Telekom, Orange, TIM Group and Telia, names Selma Avdagic Tisljar, ex-Deutsche Telekom, general manager ... Fiber tech company Luna Innovations hires NKT Photonics Technology’s Thomas Oldemeyer as senior vice president-managing director, Europe, the Middle East and Africa ... Information management company Oasis Group names Iron Mountain’s Sarah Vidgen chief people officer ... Exostellar, cloud resource optimization company, hires Microsoft’s Tony Shakib as co-CEO, to work with current CEO Hakim Weatherspoon for a transition period until assuming CEO role Jan. 1.
Hispanic Information Telecommunications Network board elects Eduardo Bhatia, Princeton University visiting professor in public and international affairs, chairman ... Semtech, cloud connectivity services provider, names Paul Pickle, ex-Lantronix, president-CEO and adds him to its board; Semtech also adds Hong Hou, Brooks Automation Semiconductor Group president, to its board ... Rivian Automotive taps Meta’s Sarah O’Brien, also ex-Tesla, as chief communications officer ... Dollar General adds David Rowland, former Accenture executive chairman, to its board, effective Aug. 5, expanding it to 10 members ... Dfns, Web3 wallet infrastructure and security company, names Gemini’s Noah Cornwell chief technology officer, and John Conneely, ex-Genesis and Bakkt, vice president-business development and sales.
Digital Entertainment Group announces Shalini Govil-Pai, Google vice president-general manager, TV platforms, as 2023 recipient of its Hedy Lamarr Award for innovation in entertainment technology ... Gannett names Axiom’s Chris Cho president-digital marketing solutions, effective July 10 ... Accenture promotes Rajendra Prasad to chief information and asset engineering officer, newly created role, effective July 1, succeeding Gloria Samuels, retiring Aug. 14, in the role of global lead for Accenture's Workday Business Group ... Harlem Globetrotters names former Nickelodeon executive Bronwen O’Keefe global head-content, Harlem Globetrotters and Herschend Entertainment Studios, newly created role ... Alphabet health tech subsidiary Verily taps McKesson’s Laura O’Donnell as general counsel ... Knocking, content and commerce company, promotes Lisa Stewart to vice president-brand partnerships ... Intuit promotes Mark Notarainni to general manager-Consumer Group, effective Aug. 1, replacing Varun Krishna, leaving company ... Marqeta, card issuing platform, names former Verizon executive Karna Crawford chief marketing officer ... Innovid, connected TV ad tech platform, taps Viant Technology’s Dave Fahey, also ex-Google, as vice president-agency partnerships ... American Public Power Association’s board names Northwest Public Power Association Executive Director Scott Corwin president-CEO, effective Aug. 16 ... Cloud company Rackspace Technology appoints Chief Technology Officer Srini Koushik global head of new spin-off Foundry for Generative AI by Rackspace.
Newly named country commissioners for Global Tech Security Commission: James Kim (South Korea), chairman-CEO, American Chamber of Commerce in Korea and former Microsoft Korea CEO; Sameer Patil (India), distinguished senior fellow at Observer Research Foundation; Iain Duncan Smith (U.K.), former Conservative Party leader; Audrey Tang (Taiwan), minister-digital affairs for Taiwan and chairperson, National Institute of Cyber Security; and Tadao Yanase (Japan), NTT senior executive vice president ... Canadian government reappoints Nathalie Theberge vice chair-CEO, Copyright Board of Canada, effective with her new five-year term beginning Oct. 1 ... Communications agency 4media Group names Rich Kellner, ex-Charlex and Synaptic Digital, global chief financial officer ... Blockchain technology company CMT Digital hires Lincoln International’s Erik Ellingson as head-business development and Sequoia Capital’s Augustus Ilag as head-Asia ... Fitness gaming developer Quell names Stieg Hedlund, ex-Blizzard, vice president-design.
Intel’s Mobileye names Vice President-Finance Moran Shemesh Rojansky acting chief financial officer, replacing CFO Anat Heller, resigning immediately for personal reasons, but remaining strategic adviser while a search is conducted for her permanent successor ... Web3 platform Infinite Reality taps Francois Ribeiro from Warner Bros. Discovery as CEO-European division ... Fulfillment network ShipBob names Amazon’s Melissa Nick its first chief supply chain officer ... Smartsheet, enterprise work management platform, adds Twilio President-Communications Khozema Shipchandler to its board ... T5 Data Centers names CPG’s Karen Stein general counsel ... Navisite, digital transformation company, names ConvergeOne’s Jeff Nachbor, also ex-Cricket Wireless, CFO ... U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appoints NorthStar Executive Vice President Aarti Holla-Maini as director-U.N. Office for Outer Space Affairs.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel’s chief counsel, Umair Javed, leaves agency … Information Technology and Innovation Foundation names Cliff Waldman, economist from New World Economics, associate director-economic policy … Turing, AI-powered tech services company, names Phil Walsh, ex-Akasa, chief marketing officer … FTI Consulting appoints Eva Kwok, former cyber lead for Deloitte China-Hong Kong, senior managing director-cybersecurity practice, Hong Kong … Global Satellite Operators Association elects Telesat’s CEO Dan Goldberg as chair and Eutelsat Eva Berneke as co-vice chair, alongside Yahsat CEO Ali Al Hashemi, appointed earlier in year … Fiber-to-the-home provider GVTC Communications announces planned retirement of President-CEO Ritchie Sorrells, effective at the end of June 2024; search underway to identify his successor ... Avaya adds JFrog Chief Product and Engineering Officer Sagi Dudai, also ex-Vonage, as board adviser ... Teleperformance, digital business services company, names former Latham & Watkins partner Teri O’Brien, also ex-Paul Hastings, chief legal and compliance officer, effective July 1, succeeding Leigh Ryan, retiring ... Vectra AI, threat detection and response platform, names CrowdStrike’s Kaori Nieda country manager-Japan.