Wilkinson Barker announces Jeffrey Gee, from the FCC Enforcement Bureau, as partner-telecom and media … FCC Chief of Staff-Office of Legislative Affairs Lori Maarbjerg and Legal Adviser-Media Bureau Evan Morris advance, respectively, to Media Bureau deputy bureau chief and associate bureau chief … Copyright Office promotes Andrew Foglia to deputy director-policy and international affairs … Newly appointed at Nexstar: Todd Braverman, ex-WarnerMedia, as executive vice president-national sales; Brad Epperson, ex-NBCUniversal, becomes executive vice president-platform operations and technology; and Lori Tavoularis advances to chief business officer ... Digital payments platform Cantaloupe names Anna Novoseletsky, ex-Discover Financial Services, chief legal and compliance officer, general counsel and corporate secretary ... CrowdStrike adds Daniel Bernard as chief business officer and Raj Rajamani as chief product officer-data, identity, cloud and endpoint; both ex-SentinelOne ... Ground positioning radar platform GPR names Mobileye’s Moran David its next CEO; co-founder and former CEO Tarik Bolat leaves day-to-day involvement, remaining an adviser ... Legal tech company Relativity names Adam Weiss, ex-Cornerstone OnDemand, chief administrative officer and chief legal officer.
Render Networks names former Calix and Advanced Fibre Communications executive Omar Ramadan vice president-customer operations ... Swami Iyer leaves as Virgin Galactic president-aerospace systems, effective immediately, will remain adviser to CEO Michael Colglazier until March 3 ... Salem Media Group promotes Andy Massingill to senior director-digital sales ... Unravel Data adds Zia Mansoor, Microsoft vice president-data and AI, to its board ... The Brattle Group announces promotions, including of Paroma Sanyal, co-leader for telecommunications, media and entertainment… Jegi Clarity M&A, advisory firm for global media, marketing, information and technology industries, promotes Rich Kanefsky to managing director …Charter's Senior Vice President-Wireless Technology Craig Cowden departing company at the end of March … With Semtech completing purchase of Sierra Wireless, latter’s Tom Mueller becomes executive vice president-IoT System Products Group, Ross Gray vice president-IoT Connected Services Group and Pravin Desale senior vice president-IoT Engineering.
Disney board elects Nike Executive Chairman Mark Parker, a Disney director since 2016, as its next chairman, effective after next annual meeting; Parker will succeed Susan Arnold, who won't seek reelection under the 15-year term limit in Disney’s board tenure policy, reducing the size of the board to 11 members ... Web3 startup Virtualness adds Meta’s Joyee Biswas, also former ESPN, as a “founding team member,” heading sports and media partnerships ... Marvell Technology promotes Chief Accounting Officer-Treasurer Willem Meintjes to chief financial officer, effective with Jan. 20 resignation of current CFO Jean Hu; Advanced Micro Devices names Hu executive vice president-CFO, effective Jan. 23, and says CFO-Treasurer Devinder Kumar is retiring, but remaining at AMD through April ... Blockchain Capital advances Kinjal Shah to general partner ... Mastercard promotes Devin Corr to executive vice president-investor relations, effective May 1, to succeed retiring Warren Kneeshaw ... Ipsos elevates Nick Mercurio to chief client officer-North America.
Nathalie Marechal, from Ranking Digital Rights, joins Center for Democracy and Technology as co-director, Privacy & Data Project … DLA Piper hires Ben MacWilliams, from SpaceX, as a Seattle-based principal, Telecoms Practice … Bob Koppel departs Lukas LaFuria to establish Koppel Telecom Law … Morgan Lewis adds veteran litigator and corporate legal adviser David Howard, ex-Microsoft, as a partner, Technology Sector … Vidyard, video messaging platform for businesses, names LinkedIn’s Jonathan Lister, also ex-Google, chief operating officer ... Morris Manning taps former SEC attorney Matthew Alexander as a partner in its litigation practice and chair of its new white collar defense, investigations and compliance practice ... Hewlett Packard Enterprise adds former Pfizer Chief Financial Officer Frank D’Amelio to its board ... Crest Media names North Base Media’s Stuart Karle, also ex-Reuters News and the Wall Street Journal, president ... Crypto platform Kraken adds Home Plate Acquisition CEO Dan Ciporin to its board ... WWE elects founder and controlling shareholder Vince McMahon executive chairman, and names co-CEO Nick Khan CEO; Stephanie McMahon resigns from her roles as chairwoman and co-CEO ... Calendly names Asana’s Jessica Gilmartin chief marketing officer ... Gaming and e-sports company Xset hires David Luce, ex-ITV America, as chief content officer.
Ziff Davis names Dish Wireless Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Bye president-connectivity division, effective Jan. 23; Dish simultaneously announces Bye will join its board, effective Jan. 18, a day after he leaves his Dish role ... Netflix hires PayPal’s Jeffrey Karbowski as vice president-chief accounting officer, effective Feb. 13, reporting to Chief Financial Officer Spencer Neumann; PayPal designates Gabrielle Rabinovitch, currently acting CFO and senior vice president-investor relations and treasurer, as interim principal accounting officer, effective with Karbowski’s Feb. 10 departure ... 5G Americas reelects T-Mobile President-Technology Neville Ray as chairman of its board of governors, and Ericsson Vice President-Government and Policy Advocacy Barbara Baffer as treasurer, both for 2023 terms ... Syniverse names Verizon’s Bill Sansalone CFO, effective immediately, replacing Simeon Irvine, staying on until mid-February.
Kelley Drye hires Katherine White, former adviser to FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips, as partner-privacy and advertising … Competitive Carriers Association names John Howes, former counsel-office of Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, senior director-government affairs and legislative counsel … Boston Omaha Broadband names Render Networks’ Frank DeJoy, also ex-AT&T, chief operating officer ... Satellite communications company ST Engineering iDirect taps Intelsat’s Don Claussen as its new CEO ...Neat, supplier of video collaboration devices for Zoom and Microsoft Teams, names Zscaler’s Todd Meister, also ex-Cisco, COO, newly created post ... Data privacy platform DataGrail names Chris Deibler, ex-Shopify, vice president-security ... Cybersecurity company Appgate promotes Chief Information Security Officer Leo Taddeo to president-CEO ... Analytics company FiscalNote names Will Wilkinson, ex-Wall Street Journal, general manager-geopolitical and market intelligence ... Spire Global, provider of space-based analytics, names Weather Decision Technologies co-founder Michael Eilts general manager-weather and earth intelligence.
Comcast promotes Jason Armstrong to chief financial officer, succeeding Mike Cavanagh, who became president in October ... WWE founder and controlling shareholder Vince McMahon announces his return to the board and his removal of JoEllen Lyons Dillon, Jeffrey Speed and Alan Wexler as directors; McMahon also restores the board seats of George Barrios and Michelle Wilson ... Infrastructure consulting firm TYLin names WSP’s Stephen Cayea chief information officer ... Fund administrator Vector promotes Chief Operating Officer Molly Yakubian to managing partner ... Incompas promotes Chief Advocate-General Counsel Angie Kronenberg to president; Chip Pickering remains president … Supply chain technology company Flexport names Teresa Carlsone, ex-Microsoft and Amazon, president-chief commercial officer.
DXC Technology adds ex-Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio, and former D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine (D) to its board ... Lumen Technologies names former Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Ashley Haynes-Gaspar executive vice president-customer success, wholesale and international, effective Monday ... Manning Kass promotes Kristine Rizzo to managing attorney-Phoenix office ... Ubilite, supplier of ultra-low-power Wi-Fi SoCs for IoT applications, names Peter Gammel, former vice president-chief technology officer in GlobalFoundries’ mobile and wireless infrastructure business unit, its new CEO ... Lynx Software Technologies adds former U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to its board ... Cubic names Paul Shew, ex-Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions, president-Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions, effective Monday ... Mega Broadband Investments promotes Ed Butler to chief commercial officer … Nokia names Rolf Werner, ex-Cognizant Technology, senior vice president-European region.
USTelecom promotes Paul Eisler to vice president-cybersecurity and innovation … Newly promoted at Sinclair to senior vice president positions in their affected areas, among a slate of companywide promotions, all effective immediately: Harvey Arnold, engineering; Jamie Dembeck, human resources; Jim Joly, digital sales; and Steve Zenker, investor relations ... The Next Solutions Group names ABC News Live Prime’s Lauren Pearle senior vice president-content and issues management ... Comporium promotes David Barnes to vice president-production resources, innovation and technical training ... Cox Enterprises names CNN Worldwide’s Andrew Morse president-publisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, effective Monday ... Financial company BlackLine elects former Deloitte Advisory CEO Owen Ryan board chair, succeeding BlackLine founder and former CEO Therese Tucker, who remains a board member; newly added to BlackLine board are Dell Technologies Chief Accounting Officer Bruny Rios and Tenable Chairman-CEO Amit Yoran ... IRocket adds former Astra Space Chief Financial Officer Kelyn Brannon and Christopher Marzilli, ex-General Dynamics, to its board ... Everbridge names Bryan Barney, ex-RedSeal, chief product officer.
Communications lawyer Davina Sashkin, former counsel-BakerHostetler, joins Wilkinson Barker as partner … Entravision appoints Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Chris Young interim CEO following death of CEO Walter Ulloa (see 2301030045) … Comcast extends contract of Michael Cavanagh, recently appointed president, through December 2027 ... L3Harris Technologies names Collins Aerospace’s Samir Mehta president-communication systems segment, succeeding Dana Mehnert, retiring after 38 years ... Kaleidescape promotes James Kleist to vice president-engineering ... Canon Canada names Isao Kobayashi president-CEO, succeeding retiring Nobuhiko Kitajima ... Immersion appoints Eric Singer as president-CEO, in addition to continuing as chairman; Francis Jose, interim CEO for past 16 months, returns to the role of general counsel ... Tradeweb Markets promotes Billy Hult to CEO and Thomas Pluta to president; Lee Olesky, former chairman-CEO, retired as CEO Saturday and now is nonexecutive chairman ... Chinese online content community Zhihu names Quwan Holding’s Henry Dachuan Sha CFO and adds him to its board, replacing Wei Sun, resigned ... Smart home ecosystem company Zeasn adds Smart Cinema CEO Jack Gao, former president of Microsoft China, to its board as chairman of its global strategy committee.