Akin adds former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, as a senior consultant in its D.C. office ... Newly added to Paley Center for Media board of trustees: Omar Abbosh, Pearson CEO; Kristin Dolan, AMC Networks CEO; Brad Karp, Paul Weiss chairman; and Dennis Mathew, Altice USA chairman-CEO; joining the Paley Los Angeles board of governors are Jesse Collins, Collins Entertainment founder-CEO; Sharb Farjami, GroupM North America CEO; Daryl Lee, McCann Worldgroup global CEO; Christian Muirhead, William Morris Endeavor co-chairman; and Ben Samek, Banijay Americas CEO ... Changes to Cogeco’s leadership roles, effective Sept. 1 with the combining of the U.S. and Canadian telecommunications businesses into a single North American organization: Sean Brushett to chief operating officer; Nancy Audette to senior vice president-growth initiatives; Marie Ginette Lepage to senior vice president-transformation; and Paul Cowling joins Cogeco July 2 from Xplore as chief legal and corporate affairs officer.

PayPal taps Uber’s Mark Grether, also former Amazon, as senior vice president-general manager, PayPal Ads, and Plaid’s John Anderson, also former Meta, as senior vice president-general manager, PayPal Consumer Group ... Qualtrics, cloud-native software platform, hires Vimeo’s Lynn Girotto, also former Microsoft, Starbucks, Tableau and Getty Images. as chief marketing officer ... Salem Media Group names Christian Kligora, ex-Marketron, as its new West region digital sales director ... Fastly, global edge cloud platform, adds Imperva’s Scott Lovett, also former Akamai, McAfee and Cisco, as chief revenue officer, effective June 3 ... Esker, global cloud platform, nominates former Altek Consulting President Ameeta Soni for appointment to its supervisory board at June 19 annual meeting.

Games developer Lightspeed Studios hires Michael Pattison, ex-Team17, also former Sony Interactive Entertainment, as vice president-global PC/console publishing ... Entertainment Software Association Foundation appoints Sue Madden, former director of the Gannett Foundation for the USA Today Network, as executive director ... Prelude Security, threat exposure management platform, hires Josha Stella, ex-Trellix, as vice president-cloud security ... Skyhigh Security taps Ken Schock, ex-Oomnitza, as chief revenue officer, and promotes Thyaga Vasudevan to executive vice president-product.

Cirrus Logic nominates Seagate Technology CEO William Mosley for election to its board at July 26 annual meeting ... Bakkt Holdings promotes Ray Kamrath to chief commercial officer of its crypto business ... OutSystems, enterprise low-code app development platform, hires former Proofpoint, Intel and Verizon executive Luis Blando as chief product and technology officer ... RestorePoint.ai, secure managed data as a service company, names former Amazon Web Services, NetApp, IBM and VMware executive David Iannacconi vice president-sales ... Ironwave Technologies, provider of RF and microwave solutions, adds retired Navy Rear Adm. Scott Sanders to its advisory board ... Lockheed Martin elects University of Texas at El Paso President Heather Wilson, also former U.S. Air Force secretary, to its board ... NJ PBS operator Public Media NJ adds to board Natalya Johnson, senior counsel at Johnson & Johnson, and Andy Tsao, Audible chief product and analytics officer.

E.W. Scripps elevates Robin Davis to senior vice president-chief distribution officer, effective immediately; she was interim head-distribution since February ... Newly elected to Xerox board: John Bruno, Xerox president-chief operating officer; Tami Erwin, former Verizon Business Group executive vice president-group CEO; Priscilla Hung, former Guidewire Software president-chief operating officer; Edward McLaughlin, Mastercard president-chief technology officer; John Roese, Dell Technologies global chief technology officer; and Amy Schwetz, Flowserve senior vice president-chief financial officer ... TrustPoint, developer of next-generation global navigation satellite system products and services, adds Ascension Partners founder Charles Beames, also former Vulcan Aerospace president, as executive chairman ... Blackbaud hires Tom Barth, ex-Akamai Technologies, as head-investor relations ... Microdisplay company Kopin announces plans of Scott Anchin to vacate his board seat, effective May 31, because his new employment agreement with another company requires him to relinquish all outside board roles ... Electrosoft Services, cybersecurity and enterprise modernization firm, hires Jason Ballah, ex-TekSynap, as vice president-DOD programs ... BAE Systems adds former National Reconnaissance Office Director Betty Sapp to its board ... Information Technology Industry Council appoints Sean Murphy, consultant to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, as executive vice president-policy, effective in June.

VodafoneZiggo hires former Sky executive Stephen van Rooyen as CEO, succeeding Jeroen Hoencamp, retired; Chief Financial Officer Ritchy Drost will be interim CEO until van Rooyen’s arrival in September ... MCE Systems, software and tech solutions provider for mobile operators, taps strategic adviser Jim Hudak, also a former executive at Microsoft, Accenture and Intel, as chief strategy officer ... Future Technologies, end-to-end network solutions provider, announces Sarah Campbell, George Mason University associate vice president-research for defense and security initiatives, as first member of its new industry advisory board ... Sangoma Technologies, cloud-based communications-as-a-service solutions provider, adds Monica Walton, ex-Centersquare and Lumen Technologies, as chief revenue officer ... National Institute for Innovation and Technology elevates board member Melinda Woods to chairwoman and adds former GlobalFoundries Chief Human Resources Officer Emily Reilly to its board ... Horizon3.ai, AI-powered cybersecurity solutions provider, hires Erick Dean, ex-PagerDuty, as vice president-product management and Drew Mullen, ex-HYPR, as vice president-revenue operations ... ThreatX, application security platform, hires Joseph Feiman, ex-TrustMe.ai, as chief innovation officer ... Abbyy, AI-powered intelligent automation platform, taps OutSystems’ Clayton Peddy, also former Citrix, as chief information security officer.

GVTC Communications, fiber optics communications provider, elevates Josh Pettiette, vice president-product, business development and strategic planning, to president-CEO, effective July 1, following retirement of current President-CEO Ritchie Sorrells ... SambaNova Systems, chipmaker for generative AI, adds founding Chairman Lip-Bu Tan, also former Cadence Design Systems CEO, as executive chairman ... Saviynt, provider of cloud-native identity and governance platform solutions, hires James Ross, ex-Collibra, ForgeRock and CA Technologies, as regional vice president-Australia and New Zealand ... Liongard, attack surface management cybersecurity platform for managed service providers, announces Stephanie Weagle, ex-Atakama, as chief marketing officer ... Lazard, financial advisory and asset management firm, adds Liontree partner Ben Braun, also former head-media and telecommunications M&A at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as managing director-global head of newly created media, entertainment and sports advisory team ... Media company Raptive taps Dana Storm Santiago, ex-Essence Ventures, as vice president-inclusive partnerships ... Sophos, cybersecurity company, moves interim CEO Joe Levy to permanent CEO and taps Imperva’s Jim Dildine as chief financial officer … Infinera, optical networking and semiconductors company, announces Regan MacPherson, ex-SunPower, as chief legal officer-corporate secretary, succeeding David Teichmann ... TextUs, text messaging platform, adds Rachel Fernandes, ex-Seismic, as senior vice president-product … The Futurum Group, tech advisory, research, intelligence and media firm, appoints Dion Hinchcliffe, ex-ZDNet, as vice president and practice lead-chief information officer practice.

Cirrus Logic announces resignation of Chief Financial Officer Venk Nathamuni, and names Principal Accounting Officer Ulf Habermann interim CFO, effective with Nathamuni’s Friday departure ... Box adds Epicor Software CEO Steve Murphy to its board, replacing John Park as investor KKR’s board designee ... AEG Presents promotes Senior Vice President-Venue Operations Nick Spampanato to chief operating officer-venues ... Regal rehires Rob Westerling, ex-Harkins Theatres, as senior vice president-U.S. content, effective June 3; he previously spent 21 years at Regal, most recently as head-film ... Media.Monks, digital advertising and marketing services company, promotes Laurent Farci to chief information officer.

AST SpaceMobile to appoint AT&T Head-Network Chris Sambar to its board as part of new AT&T/AST commercial agreement to bring first space-based broadband network direct to “everyday” cellphones ... SIP Forum elects Iconectiv Chief Technology Officer Steve Tang to its board ... National CineMedia taps former PHD Media U.S. CEO Catherine Sullivan, also ex-Omnicom Media Group, as president-sales, marketing and partnerships ... VisualVault, cloud-based enterprise content management platform, names Deepak Vedarthan, ex-Pegasystems, vice president to lead its professional services organization ... Saviynt, provider of cloud-native identity and governance platform solutions, hires former Gartner identity and access management analyst Henrique Teixeira as senior vice president-strategy ... CSG, customer experience platform, adds ID.me Chief Financial Officer Samantha Greenberg to its board ... Red River, tech transformation company for government and enterprise customers, names Concetta Yates, ex-SS&C Blue Prism, head-data analytics and AI ... Blind Squirrel Games, videogame development studio, adds Digital Bandidos CEO Steve Escalante to its board ... AiOla, AI-powered enterprise speech recognition platform, hires former Wix, Cisco and Intel executive Alon Peleg as chief operating officer.

Project Liberty founder Frank McCourt announces he’s building a consortium with Guggenheim Securities and Kirkland & Ellis to buy TikTok in the U.S. ... Ulas Karademir, ex-RealityOS, returns to videogame developer and publisher IO Interactive, becoming chief technology officer ... Sterling Infrastructure promotes Vice President-Finance Sharon Villaverde to chief financial officer-chief accounting officer, succeeding Ron Ballschmiede, remaining executive vice president until his planned retirement later this year ... Fortune Live Media hires Kristin Stoller, ex-Forbes, as editorial director ... Digimarc taps Carle Quinn, ex-Workato, as chief people officer ... Ninjio, cybersecurity awareness training company, names Jon Dion, ex-AuditBoard, chief revenue officer ... SmartBear, software development company, hires Allego’s Amy Cohn as chief people officer ... Upstream Security, cybersecurity detection and response platform for connected vehicles and IoT, appoints former Gartner executive partner Toshiya Sato, also ex-Fujitsu, as president-Japan ... Adams Outdoor Advertising hires former Calabrio and Rackspace Technology CEO Kevin Jones as CEO.