5G communications systems developer COMSovereign promotes interim CEO David Knight to president-CEO and adds him to its board ... Internet services provider BTX Fiber names Point Broadband’s Richard Hogue, also former Comcast, president ... NielsenIQ taps Datavant’s Mike Burwell as chief financial officer, effective Jan. 3; current CFO Chandler Bigelow to leave NielsenIQ Jan. 31 after a transition period ... Lexmark promotes Melanie Hudson to senior vice president-chief commercial officer, effective Thursday, and adds her to its executive team ... Triton Digital names Targetspot’s Josh Yamuder director-partnerships, programmatic marketplace ... Music technology platform Trubify adds music, film and theater producer Ron Gillyard to its board of advisers ... Fiber-to-the-premise broadband provider Consolidated Communications names Fred Graffam, ex-Brinks Home Security, executive vice president-CFO, effective Thursday, succeeding current CFO Steve Childers, becoming an adviser until Dec. 31.
Cox Enterprises names Warner Bros. Discovery’s Marny Ridling vice president-talent acquisition ... Vonage hires Rocket Software’s Tracey Leahy as chief people officer and adds her to its executive leadership team ... 3D content creation platform Unity names former Carbon Chief Legal Officer Anirma Gupta senior vice president-general counsel ... Public Safety Towers hires former QMC Telecom International executive John Bramfeld, also ex-Alcatel-Lucent, as vice president-infrastructure development ... Real estate social app Real Messenger names Kamal Shaik, Meta’s former director-data products and programs, chief data officer ... Diebold Nixdorf promotes Elizabeth Radigan to executive vice president-chief people officer, and adds her to its senior executive leadership team, replacing Beth Patrick, leaving ... EdgeIQ names Lisa Parcella, ex-Security Innovation, vice president-marketing and Sam George, former Microsoft corporate vice president-Azure IoT, strategic adviser.
Eutelsat names Christophe Caudrelier, ex-Tikehau Ace Capital Partners, chief financial officer, replacing Sandrine Teran, leaving ... Averna, provider of automated test and quality assurance tools, adds tech industry veteran Charles Boulanger to its board ... Conversational AI company Boost.ai names LivePerson’s Jerry Haywood, also former IBM and Cisco, CEO, effective Dec. 1, replacing Lars Ropeid Selsas, stepping down to devote more time to product development and innovation ... Internet gaming company GAN announces resignation of CFO Karen Flores and from its board of directors, effective immediately, appointing Senior Vice President-Corporate Controller Brian Chang as her interim replacement ... Conn's Home Plus announces Chief Accounting Officer Ryan Nelson is leaving the company Dec. 14, to be replaced by Chief Financial Officer George Bchara until a replacement is named.
Intel elects BlackRock co-founder and senior adviser Barbara Novick to its board, effective Dec. 1 ... Lithium-ion battery producer Amprius Technologies names Wilson Sonsini’s Siyu Jiang vice president-legal affairs ... Brand management software company Frontify recruits MiQ’s Rebecca Rosborough, also former Teads, as chief marketing officer ... Employee connectivity company Workhuman names Salesforce’s Zoe Peterson-Ward chief customer officer ... Digital advertising network Grocery TV adds Ogury’s Mike Pollack, also former News America Marketing, as its first chief revenue officer ... VentureLab, global founder community for hardware tech companies in Canada, adds NorthGuide founding partner James Meddings to its board ... ASM Global names Kelvin Moore regional vice president-general manager, McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago ... Wolters Kluwer hires Intercontinental Exchange’s Kevin Hay as vice president-sales, finance, risk and regulatory reporting ... Tilt Creative + Production, content marketing and production agency, names Dontrese Brown from Randolph-Macon College, also former Capital One, executive vice president-chief growth officer, succeeding Bill Hickman, becoming advisor.
GBH, leading producer of content for PBS, names former National Geographic Editor-in-Chief Susan Goldberg its next president-CEO, its first woman in that role since its 1951 founding ... Virgin Galactic recruits Topgolf Callaway’s Sarah Kim as executive vice president-chief legal officer and corporate secretary, effective Dec. 5 ... Smart mobility company Wejo announces resignation of board member Alan Masarek to become CEO of Avaya ... Semiconductor company Xmos names financial veteran Paul Goodridge special adviser ... Blockchain platform Decentralized Social hires former Meta executive Salil Shah as chief operating officer.
Bob Iger returns as Disney CEO for two years, effective immediately, replacing Bob Chapek, leaving ... GlobaFoundries names Cisco’s Ashlie Wallace senior vice president-global supply chain, effective Nov. 28 ... Zebra Technologies promotes Tami Froese to chief supply chain officer ... Project Liberty’s McCourt Institute names Constance Bommelaer de Leusse, ex-Internet Society, executive director ... AI company Rad Intelligence adds business management veteran Christopher Robert Celona as strategic adviser-corporate development and computer scientist Alexander Wissner-Gross as founding adviser ... Newly promoted to managing directors in Allison+Partners technology practice: Sharon Barclay, business-to-business technology, U.S.; Jeff Leopold, customer experience; and Jaime Tero, technology ... Amazon Web Services consultancy Rebura names AWS partner ecosystem veteran Marty Legg chief revenue officer, newly created role ... Talkdesk names Odigo’s David Paulding senior vice president-international ...
Visa promotes President Ryan McInerney to CEO, effective Feb. 1, succeeding Alfred Kelly, who becomes executive chairman ... Viq Solutions, provider of AI-driven digital voice and video capture technology, promotes Chairman Larry Taylor to newly created role of executive chairman, and names Tim Johnson, ex-Microsoft’s Nuance, senior vice president-international ... LCI Industries adds Linda Myers, ex-Kirkland & Ellis, to its board, expanding it to 11 members ... Rogers, provider of advanced electronic and elastomeric materials, says President-CEO Bruce Hoechner will retire effective Dec. 31, will remain a board member and as advisor until March 31; board plans to appoint Senior Vice President Colin Gouveia to succeed Hoechner as president-CEO ... Legato Security names former Utah Chief Information Security Officer Tim Hastings CISO.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces retirements this month of Michelle Carey, deputy chief-Media Bureau; Linda Oliver, associate general counsel, Administrative Law Division; Vienna Jordan, public utilities specialist-Wireline Bureau Pricing Policy Division; and Vanessa Stallings, webmaster-Media Bureau … CTIA names Frank Wong, from Amtrak, director-wireless technology … American National Standards Institute promotes Douglas Leonard to executive director of its National Accreditation Board; he was co-interim executive director since December; ANSI moves Warren Merkel to the board's vice president-policy, both effective Monday ... Smart vehicle company GuardKnox names Jamey Cates, ex-Bosch, chief technology officer-North America ... Workforce management platform Magnit adds Salesforce’s Mohan Natarajan, also former Motorola and Cisco, as its first CTO.
Ralph Lauren elects former Alibaba Pictures Group President Wei Zhang to its board, expanding it to 13 members ... Mobility-as-a-service company Social Mobile names telecom veteran Jai Rao, ex-Orbic, chief engineering officer ... Social media management company Hootsuite adds DocuSign’s Antonis Papatsaras as chief technology officer ... Cloud reskilling platform Revolent names former Salesforce and Microsoft executive Richard Jones-Penny chief revenue officer ... Mobile games publisher PopReach promotes Kevin Ferrell to president, succeeding Christopher Locke, and elevates Jeff Collins to succeed Ferrell as chief operating officer, all effective Dec. 1 ... Numerical Algorithms Group appoints former Arm executive Jem Davies as new chair, replacing Stephen Todd, who leaves after nine years in the role.
American Marketing Association names Bennie Johnson, ex-AIG andCouncil of Better Business Bureaus, CEO ... The Boston Globe taps NPR’s Nancy Barnes as its next editor, succeeding Brian McGrory ... ASM Global promotes Alex Merchan to chief marketing officer ... Fixed wireless access company Tarano names former Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino vice president-government affairs ... AffiniPay, professional services payments platform for law and accounting firms, names Wilson Sonsini’s Catherine Dawson general counsel and member of its executive team ... Xerox announces John Bruno, ex-Storm Ventures and ex-Aon, as president-chief operating officer, after the promotion of Steven Bandrowczak to CEO earlier this year ... Global memory storage company Solidigm promotes board member Woody Young to president ... Internet gaming company GAN adds Penn Capital’s Eric Green to its board ... Cybersecurity company Surefire Cyber names Jerry Bessette, ex-Booz Allen, chief operating officer ... Electromechanical devices manufacturer Ametek promotes Jose Munoz to vice president-operational excellence ... Private equity firm Kohlberg & Co. names Jessica Hoffman Brennan from Onex partner and head-strategy and investor relations ... ExtraHop, cloud-native network intelligence company, hires former Defy Security CEO Chris Scanlan, also ex-Cylance, as president-chief commercial officer.