Artifact co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger to work with Yahoo in an advisory capacity for a transition period following Yahoo’s acquisition of their news aggregation and discovery platform; Systrom and Krieger also co-founded Instagram in 2010 ... Expel, managed detection and response platform, promotes Vice President-Engineering Cat Starkey to chief technology officer and adds her to its leadership team ... Wolters Kluwer promotes Catherine Wolfe to executive vice president-general manager of its CT Corp. business, succeeding John Weber, retiring ... F5, multicloud application security and delivery company, hires Lyra Schramm, ex-Google and also former Amazon Web Services, as executive vice president-chief people officer, and Kunal Anand, ex-Imperva and also former BBC Worldwide and NASA, as executive vice president-CTO ... Deepwatch, managed security platform, taps Trey Ford, ex-Vista Equity Partners, as chief information security officer ... Blackbaud names Chris Lindner, ex-360training, chief information officer ... Optiv, cyber advisory and solutions company, hires John Hurley, ex-Quantum and Cisco, as chief revenue officer ... QuickLogic, developer of endpoint AI and machine learning solutions, announces departure of board member Radhika Krishnan to focus on her general manager role at Amazon Web Services ... Mobile Beacon appoints Joseph Gleason, ex-Cloud Connection and former Cisco, as director-programs and strategic Initiatives … Voxx Electronics announces Seth Halstead, ex-JVCKenwood, as marketing director.
Sinclair hires CBN News’ Matthew Galka as a national correspondent in its D.C. bureau to provide reporting for The National Desk, Sinclair’s nationally syndicated news program, and for Sinclair’s broadcast stations ... Metronet taps Craig Cowden, ex-Charter Communications and Bright House Networks, as executive vice president-chief technology and product officer, and Brad Freathy, ex-Verizon Business Group and Charter, as senior vice president-commercial and carrier sales ... GCT Semiconductor, supplier of 5G and 4G semiconductor solutions, adds Synaptics Chair Nelson Chan to its board ... Foreign Policy Research Institute elects Aaron Stein, former chief content officer at War on the Rocks and Metamorphic Media, as its next president, his term beginning April 15 ... Twilio adds Andy Stafman, a partner at Sachem Head Capital Management, to its board, expanding it to 10 members.
Gannett nominates former Warner Bros. Discovery adviser Maha Al-Emam, also ex-Apple, NBCUniversal Media and Bloomberg, for election to its board at June 3 annual meeting ... Yelp adds Roku Chief Financial Officer Dan Jedda to its board; former Twilio Chief Operating Officer George Hu leaving his Yelp board seat after five years ... PayPal plans to appoint Carmine Di Sibio, retiring EY global chairman-CEO, to its board as an independent director, effective July 1; former Airbnb COO Belinda Johnson to retire from PayPal board, effective with annual meeting in May.
Scott Harris, former NTIA director-national spectrum strategy, opening Crest Hill Advisors, with specialties including tech and telecom … Nokia announces Chief People Officer Amy Hanlon-Rodemich is leaving company, but retaining an advisory role; Lorna Gibb, vice president-labor and employment, becoming interim CPO during search ... Thunderbird Entertainment promotes Lori Massini to general counsel; Sarah Nathanson resigning as Thunderbird general counsel, corporate secretary and chief operating officer, effective April 9 ... Riedel Communications hires Julia Rodgers, ex-Warner Bros. Discovery and NEP Group, as southeast regional sales manager ... Mojo Vision, microLED company, adds Starkey Chief Technology Officer Achin Bhowmik to its board; Bhowmik, a former Intel executive, is current president of the Society for Information Display ... Sierra Space, commercial space tech company, hires Amish Patel, ex-Rocket Lab, also former SpaceX, as COO ... Exterro, data risk management software company, appoints Rick Valentine, ex-Quantum, as chief customer officer.
Sinclair promotes David Gibber to executive vice president-chief legal officer ... Fortune Media hires Needham Partners’ Jen Magee as general manager, Fortune Live Media unit, newly created role ... Security company Netography adds former RSA Security President-CEO Art Coviello to its board ... AVPro Global elevates Mike Detmer, its consultant since 2023, to chief operating officer ... 1Kosmos, passwordless authentication company, hires Guidehouse’s Christine Owen as its first field chief technology officer ... News Literacy Project elects KVOX Media founder Karen Wickre as board chair and Recode co-founder Walt Mossberg vice chair to terms beginning Sept. 15.
Energous announces that Cesar Johnston is no longer president-CEO, but he remains a board member; board establishes office of the chair composed of Chair Reynette Au and Chief Financial Officer Mallorie Burak, who's named interim principal executive officer while the board seeks a permanent successor to Johnston ... DirectDefense, information security services company, names former Cisco executive Patty Wright as inaugural member of its newly formed advisory board ... Momentus, commercial space infrastructure company, hires Ziteo Medical’s Lon Ensler as interim CFO, effective April 2, replacing current CFO Eric Williams, resigning, effective April 1 ... Contentstack, digital experience platform provider, hires Zuora’s Gurdeep Dhillon, also former Adobe, as chief marketing officer ... Corning announces Michaune Tillman, ex-Worthington Steel, as senior vice president-general counsel ... Vast Data appoints Rick Scurfield, ex-NetApp, as chief revenue officer.
E.W. Scripps nominates Lexitas President-Chief Operating Officer Nishat Mehta for election to its board ... Luna Innovations, fiber optic-based technology provider, announces retirement of Scott Graeff as president-CEO and from the board, and names Chairman Richard Roedel interim executive chairman and president ... Lowenstein Sandler taps Michael Caplan, ex-Goodwin Proctor, as COO ... Match Group adds Instacart Chief Marketing Officer Laura Jones and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff to its board ... Hasbro adds Zynga President Frank Gibeau, Jack in the Box CEO Darin Harris, and retired former Nexon President-CEO Owen Mahoney to its board; Tracy Leinbach, Linda Zecher Higgins and Michael Burns will retire from Hasbro board after 2024 annual meeting; Alan Hassenfeld to step down as emeritus chairman, also following the annual meeting ... Voxx Electronics hires Ian Worrall , ex-GoFast Solutions, as Eastern Region retail sales manager, succeeding Paul Platt, retiring.
Comtech hires Jeff Robertson, ex-Intrado Life Safety, as president of its terrestrial and wireless networks business segment ... Tencent Music Entertainment Group announces resignation of Zhenyu Xie as president and chief technology officer, and names Chief Financial Officer Shirley Hu to replace him on Tencent’s board, both effective March 31; Xie will remain a Tencent consultant ... Secureworks adds former General Electric executive William Cary to its board ... Contentsquare names Gabriel Benavides, ex-Medallia, global chief revenue officer ... PA Media Group promotes Emily Shelley to CEO, replacing Clive Marshall, retiring ... Abnormal Security, AI-native cloud email security company, taps Okta’s Smita Sanadhya, also former HP and Microsoft, as CFO, and Jeff True, ex-Zoom, as chief legal officer.
Scott Harris announces his departure from NTIA as senior spectrum adviser and director-national spectrum strategy … NAB hires Gabriela Sibori, ex-Department of Health and Human Services, as senior director-communications … Coalition for Deep Space Exploration board adds Kristin Houston, Aerojet Rocketdyne president-space propulsion and power systems, and Jim Kalberer, Northrop Grumman vice president-propulsion systems ... Arkose Labs, bot management and account security company, names Patrick Kehoe, ex-Coalfire, chief marketing officer ... Nozomi Networks, IoT security company, hires Kevin Isaac, ex-Forcepoint, Symantec and Sophos, as chief revenue officer ... Rockwell Automation taps McKesson’s Stephen Ford, also former HP, as vice president-chief information security officer ... Entegration, managed services provider, adds TimesSquare Capital Management partner Michael Russell to its board.
Phillips Lytle names partner Richard Marinaccio to lead law firm’s newly launched AI practice team ... Ericsson promotes Andres Vicente to senior vice president and head-South East Asia, Oceania and India market area, effective May 1, succeeding Nunzio Mirtillo, retiring … ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development announces new commissioners, including FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel; Abel Avellan, CEO-AST SpaceMobile; Mark Dankberg, CEO-Viasat; Shameel Joosub, CEO-Vodacom; Isabelle Mauro, director general-Global Satellite Operator’s Association; and Deemah AlYahya, secretary general-Digital Cooperation Organization … Brown Gibbons Lang, investment bank and financial advisory firm, adds Stifel’s Jason Myler as a managing director within its tech team ... Benchmark Electronics announces departure of Roop Lakkaraju as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective April 1, naming Vice President-Finance Arvind Kamal as his interim replacement; Lakkaraju joining Bio-Rad Laboratories ... Red Cell Partners, venture capital firm focused on the tech sector, adds Veronica Daigle, former assistant defense secretary under President Donald Trump, as partner and president of its national security practice ... DXC Technology, tech services provider, taps Matt Fawcett, ex-NetApp, as executive vice president-general counsel, effective April 1.