Sony Interactive Entertainment, in leadership restructuring, elevates Hideaki Nishino to CEO of SIE’s Platform Business Group, and Hermen Hulst to CEO of its Studio Business Group, effective June 1; interim SIE CEO Hiroki Totoki advances to SIE chairman, in addition to his roles as Sony Group chief operating officer-chief financial officer ... FleishmanHillard rehires Scott Radcliffe from Apple as global director-cybersecurity; he previously served as FleishmanHillard’s senior global data privacy and security expert before leading Apple’s cybersecurity communications ... Open Geospatial Consortium taps Peter Rabley, co-founder of the data trust nonprofit Place, as CEO ... Highway 9 Networks, cloud-based enterprise mobile networking company, hires Fortanix’s Faiyaz Shahpurwala, also former IBM, as chief operating and customer officer, and Mark Weiner, ex-F5 and Volterra, as chief marketing officer ... Content studio Malka elevates Global Chief Operating Officer Chris Apostle and Senior Business Adviser Bill Davaris to co-CEOs, and hires Paige McCrensky, ex-Getty Images, as its first chief brand officer ... Trulioo, identity verification platform, taps David Liu, ex-American Express, as senior vice president-fraud and risk ... StackAdapt, multichannel advertising platform, appoints Ryan Nelsen, ex-Qualtrics, as chief marketing officer.
NASA appoints David Salvagnini as the agency's first chief AI officer, in an expansion of Salvagnini's current role as chief data officer ... Universities Space Research Association elects Front Roe Services President-CEO Lesa Roe, also a former 33-year NASA veteran, as a new trustee ... Intel taps Marvell Technologies’ Kevin O’Buckley as senior vice president-general manager, foundry services, succeeding Stuart Pann, retiring from Intel at the end of May and remaining an adviser ... Cohesity, AI-powered data security company, hires Craig Martell, former DOD chief digital and AI officer, as chief technology officer ... Mitek, digital identity and fraud prevention platform, terminates employment of CEO Max Carnecchia, effective May 31, naming Executive Chairman Scott Carter interim CEO, effective June 1 ... SpinLaunch, space tech company, elevates Chief Operating Officer David Wrenn to CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Jonathan Yaney ... Lantronix appoints Mathi Gurusamy, ex-Mobilogix and Telit Cinterion, as chief strategy officer … Nexstar Media Group moves Humberto Hormaza to vice president-general manager, broadcast and digital operations for Houston designated market area.
Entravision promotions: Mark Boelke to chief financial officer and treasurer, succeeding Christopher Young, departing; Corporate Controller Bill McNally to corporate controller and chief accounting officer; Jeff DeMartino to general counsel and secretary, succeeding Boelke; Chief Strategy Officer Juan Saldivar departing Entravision, his responsibilities to be assumed by existing members of the management team ... Pinterest adds Chip Bergh, former Levi Strauss & Co. CEO, to its board ... Ford names CFO John Lawler vice chair, with expanded role in Ford+ strategic growth initiative, and hires Sherry House, ex-Lucid Motors, as vice president-finance, part of a plan to succeed Lawler as CFO in early 2025; both assignments are effective in June ... Wipro elevates Vinay Firake to CEO of its Asia Pacific, India, Middle East and Africa strategic market unit and adds him to its executive board ... AEG Presents promotes Brent Fedrizzi to president-North American regional offices.
Integral Ad Science, global media measurement and optimization platform, hires Cameron Miille, ex-FreeWheel, as chief revenue officer of Publica by IAS, its connected TV ad server subsidiary ... AtScale, provider of semantic layer solutions for generative AI, adds Mark Palmer, founder-CEO of tech consultancy firm Techno-Sapien, and Sandhill East President Roseann Palmieri, also former Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, to its board ... Talkdesk hires Simon Horrocks, ex-Harness.io, as Asia-Pacific leader ... AXS adds Sian Egbujie, ex-Dice, as strategic operations director-Europe, and Christina Chu, ex-Redbox, as senior vice president-software engineering ... Nextworld, enterprise software solutions provider, adds former Fluke, Nextel, Vonage and Gogo executive Barry Rowan to its executive advisory board ... Tredence, AI solutions company, names Munjay Singh, ex-Infosys, chief operating officer ... IAB Tech Lab, software-as-a-service platform, adds Optable Chief Product Officer and co-founder Bosko Milekic to its board.
Newly named to CNN International Commercial’s Asia Pacific leadership team: Karen Lay, ex-Sportfive and former Disney/ESPN, joins as director-commercial distribution; Sally Young returns to CNN in an advertising sales leadership role with a renewed focus on Greater China; and Kimmy Ho advances to senior director-content sales and licensing ... Nextdoor adds to board: Marissa Mayer, Sunshine founder-CEO and former Yahoo president-CEO; Niraj Shah, Wayfair CEO, co-chairman and co-founder; and Robert Hohman, Glassdoor chairman and co-founder ... IRobot hires Qualitor Automotive’s Gary Cohen as CEO, effective immediately, and will add him to the board after the May 23 annual meeting; Andrew Miller will remain chair, and former interim CEO Glen Weinstein will stay on with iRobot for 60 days to help with the transition ,,, CleanSpark, bitcoin mining company, promotes Scott Garrison to chief operating officer and Taylor Monnig to chief technology officer ... Stream Security, cloud detection and response company, names Patrick Guay, ex-Pentera, chief revenue officer ... Jennifer Manner, EchoStar senior vice president-regulatory affairs, says she's leaving EchoStar May 22 to become NTIA senior adviser-space and satellite policy, effective June 3 … Glenn Richards, former Pillsbury Winthrop partner in communications, announces he’s joining Dickinson Wright as partner.
Lumen Technologies taps Sabre’s Chad Ho, also former Disney and Hulu, as executive vice president-chief legal officer, effective in June, succeeding Stacey Goff, remaining with Lumen for a few weeks after Ho’s arrival ... AST SpaceMobile, space-based cellular broadband network company, hires 3D Systems’ Andrew Johnson as chief legal officer ... Newly named to Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Cyber Safety Review Board: Jamil Jaffer, executive director, National Security Institute, George Mason University's Scalia Law School; David Luber, NSA director-cybersecurity directorate; Katie Nickels, Red Canary director-intelligence operations; and Chris Krebs, SentinelOne chief intelligence and public policy officer; retiring NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce, whom Luber replaces on the review board, to continue serving on the board as a private sector member ... Cohu, semiconductor equipment and manufacturing services company, adds Karen Rapp, retired former National Instruments chief financial officer, to its board ... UPS announces June 1 departure of Brian Newman as executive vice president-CFO for personal health reasons; UPS will evaluate internal and external candidates to identify Newman’s successor ... Cyemptive Technologies, cybersecurity solutions provider for business and government, names former IBM and Hitachi executive Wessel Graatsma vice president-cybersecurity solutions, Europe ... Searchlight Cyber, dark web intelligence company, names Tim Warner, ex-Zscaler, vice president-global enterprise sales ... Blue Sky Networks becomes part of NAL Research with NAL President Robert Bills leading the combined company ... PayPal names GE’s Steve Winoker chief investor relations officer, effective May 15 ... Vsora AI, chip startup, announces former Stimio CEO David Dorval as vice president-operations and test … MwareTV, cloud-based multitenant platform provider, taps Daniel Conde Coto, ex-Emergent, as director-sales operations.
NAB hires Kirsten Donaldson, ex-Digital Media Association, as vice president-public policy … Hearst Television promotes Senior Vice President Nick Radziul to executive vice president ... NetApp hires Cisco's Dallas Olson as chief commercial officer ... Twilio taps Chris Koehler, ex-Box, as chief marketing officer ... Amazon agency My Amazon Guy adds Seller Interactive’s Ken Zhou as chief operating officer ... D.A. Davidson hires William Blair’s Gary Morabito as managing director, tech equity capital markets ... Elite, provider of financial management and business operations solutions to law firms, hires Stephanie Milikh, ex-Discovery Education, as chief legal officer and corporate secretary ... Allied Entertainment names Yangyang Li president in addition to his continuing role as chairman; Yinghua Chen resigns her board seat, but will continue as CEO; Chi Zhao, research fellow at the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School, joins Allied board as an independent director; WPT Enterprises President Adam Pliska resigns his board seat ... Equifax taps SoFi’s Chad Borton as executive vice president and president-workforce solutions to succeed retiring Rudy Ploder ... Hyland, intelligent content solutions provider, adds Informatica’s Jitesh Ghai as president-CEO, effective May 20.
Graybar, distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products, promotes Steven Bourbeau to district vice president-Chicago, effective June 1 ... Equifax elects former Workday Chief Financial Officer Barbara Larson to its board ... Microdisplay developer Kopin promotes Greg Truman to vice president-business development, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific markets, newly created position ... Wiland, marketing data and audiences company, hires Mike Gingell, ex-FordDirect, as CEO ... Opendoor Technologies appoints LenX President Eric Feder to board … Caveonix, platform for hybrid multicloud compliance automation and risk management, hires Elevate Security’s Mark Bagley as chief product officer.
DQE Communications, regional provider of high-speed data networking for businesses and carriers, names former Internap executive Michael Sicoli CEO, effective immediately, concurrent with the completion of DQE’s acquisition by GI Partners, an investor in data infrastructure businesses ... Nielsen hires Partha Sengupta, ex-Kroll, as managing director and leader of its new global capability centers ... Luna Innovations, fiber optic test products company, taps Will Denman as senior vice president-sales, North America, Matthew Friedman as vice president-product marketing, and John Roiko as chief financial officer, succeeding George Gomez-Quintero, resigned; Denman, Friedman and Roiko all are former National Instruments executives; Luna also names former IHS Markit Chief Accounting Officer Heather Matzke-Hamlin as a consultant to evaluate, renew and document the company’s business process controls, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, and adds former National Instruments CEO Alex Davern and Juniper Strategies founder Kevin Ilcisin as strategic advisers to the board; Luna also terminates Chief Technology Officer Brian Soller for cause, effective immediately ... Photonic, quantum computing and networking company, hires Chantal Arena, ex-Lawrence Semiconductors, as vice president- research, development and production, devices, and Klaus Schuegraf, ex-PsiQuantum, as vice president-research, development and production, systems; Photonic also promotes Alison Berg to chief marketing officer, newly created role, and names Moonshot Associates' Jessica Hodgson vice president-people.
ech advisory firm CNM promotes Adel Zahiry to partner; he was managing director of CNM’s cybersecurity and privacy practice since 2021 ... Sonar, open source software solutions developer, hires Sumo Logic’s Lynne Doherty, also former McAfee, as president-field operations ... Darrow, AI-powered justice intelligence platform, adds Mathew Keshav Lewis, ex-Dealpath, as its first chief revenue officer and U.S. general manager ... DXC Technology, global tech services provider, hires former IBM Americas General Manager Cameron Art as general manager-Americas and U.K. and Ireland markets ... Quantum Computing Inc. adds Javad Shabani, director of New York University's Center for Quantum Information Physics, to its board.