National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Executive Director Greg White announces plans to retire year-end … Siemens Government Technologies taps Elizabeth Larson from Siemens Industry as chief financial officer ... Blue Mantis provider of digital strategy and services promotes Jay Pasteris, formerly chief information officer-chief information security officer, to newly created position of chief operating officer and advances Vice President-Information Tech Gary Yu to deputy CIO and Security Practice Lead Jay Martin to vice president-security … The Daily Beast taps former Disney ABC Television Group President Ben Sherwood as publisher-CEO and Joanna Coles, ex-Hearst Magazines, as chief creative and content officer under their new “strategic partnership” agreement with Daily Beast parent IAC ... Digicel Group taps Marcelo Cataldo from Tigo Colombia as CEO, effective May 1; Maarten Boute, interim CEO since January, will return to his role as group chief operating officer.

Crown Castle appoints Steven Moskowitz, ex-Centennial Towers, president-CEO and board member; interim President-CEO Anthony Melone becomes special adviser to Moskowitz until May 31 (see 2404120051) … Beacon Global Strategies, strategic advisory firm focused on global public policy, government procurement and geopolitical risk analysis, expands its Indo-Pacific practice, adding Meghan Harris, ex-GlobalFoundries, as senior vice president, and Ann Kowalewski, ex-House Foreign Affairs Committee staffer, as associate vice president.

Circles, SaaS platform targeting the telco industry, hires Dish Network’s Kannan Alagappan as chief technology officer ... Keyfactor, identity security platform, names Scott Meyerhoff, ex-EmployBridge, chief financial officer ... Talkdesk hires UiPath’s Munil Shah, also former Microsoft, as chief technology officer ... Phoji, developer of customized emojis for digital and mobile marketing communications, adds Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, former vice president-general manager of Snap’s augmented reality platform, to its board, pending shareholder approval at July annual meeting; Papamiltiadis also is former Meta vice president-platform partnerships ... Sinclair appoints Mike Palmer, assistant vice president-media management, as its representative on the Entertainment ID Registry board for a one-year term ... Quad Investors Network, charitable initiative to promote tech development in the Indo-Pacific region, adds Nishant Batra, Nokia chief strategy and technology officer, to its advisory board.

Vivacity Infrastructure Group, provider of communications infrastructure services, appoints Christopher Rabii, ex-FiberLight, as president-CEO … Internet company Expereo promotes Chief Revenue Officer Ben Elms to CEO, succeeding Irwin Fouwels who moves to executive chairman, both effective May 1 ... Wipro advances Malay Joshi to CEO, Wipro Americas 1 Strategic Market Unit, succeeding Srini Pallia, now Wipro CEO-managing director (see 2404080025); Malay will also join Wipro's executive board ... Qubrid AI, generative AI company, adds Google’s Ujjwal Rajbhandari, also former Dell, as chief technology officer and co-founder.

Harmonic promotes Nimrod Ben-Natan, senior vice president-general manager, broadband business, to president-CEO to succeed retiring Patrick Harshman, effective June 11 ... Backlight, media and entertainment software provider, hires Mosaic Group’s Kathleen Barrett, also former Vimeo, as CEO ... WorldVue, provider of video, digital infrastructure and wireless connectivity services, adds Chris Coles, ex-C&W Networks, as chief business development officer ... Daily newsletter 1440 taps former Time executive Michelle Denhart as vice president-strategy and brand ... C3 AI, enterprise AI application software company, adds outgoing Fortune Media CEO Alan Murray to its board, effective May 1; meanwhile, Fortune announces Chief Strategy Officer-Chief Financial Officer Anastasia Nyrkovskaya as CEO, succeeding Murray, departing at the end of April ... Publishers Clearing House Media names Roey Franco, ex-Firefly, chief product officer ... Captivate, news and entertainment network, rehires its former Senior Vice President-National Sales Leigh Lowery from Outfront Media as chief revenue officer.

Radcom, provider of 5G-ready cloud-native network intelligence for telecom operators, names Chief Operating Officer Hilik Itman interim CEO; Guy Shemesh departs as CEO for personal reasons ... Garmin announces Andrew Etkind to step down as general counsel, effective July 1, will continue as vice president and secretary; Josh Maxfield is promoted to vice president-general counsel and assistant secretary ... Wipro promotes Srini Pallia to CEO and managing director, succeeding Thierry Delaporte, departing ... A-Lign, cybersecurity compliance company, moves Michael Branca to chief financial officer; he was interim CFO since rejoining the company in Q4 ... Voyager Space hires Neeraj Gupta, ex-Sierra Space, as chief strategy officer.

Brian Weeden leaves Secure World Foundation to become Aerospace Corp. Center for Space Policy and Strategy systems director-policy and regulatory … IonQ, quantum computing company, hires PagerDuty’s Stacey Giamalis, also former Wilson Sonsini, as chief legal officer-corporate secretary ... Teradata, cloud analytics and data platform for AI, promotes Richard Petley to chief revenue officer, succeeding Todd Cione, leaving the company ... Fortune Media taps former Scissero interim CEO Georgene Huang as general manager-Fortune Analytics, new business unit dedicated to Fortune 500 lists and rankings.

NAB announces Nandu Machiraju, a former partner at Baker & McKenzie, as senior vice president-deputy general counsel … Ericsson appoints Greta Lundeberg, ex-Boeing, as vice president-head, government and policy advocacy Americas … Talkdesk promotes Miles Ennis to senior vice president-worldwide sales ... Digimarc hires George Karamanos, ex-Zip, as chief legal officer ... Allegro MicroSystems appoints Jennie Raubacher, former Wells Fargo managing director, to board … Twilio announces retirement of board member Byron Deeter before the company’s 2024 annual meeting, reducing the board’s composition to nine members.

Bluebird Network promotes Chris Melloway to director-system solutions engineering and sales support … Cambium Networks, wireless networking infrastructure solutions provider, taps Jacob Sayer, ex-Sensata Technologies, as chief financial officer, effective Monday ... Glassbox, digital experience analytics provider for web and mobile applications, hires Michelle Suzuki, ex-Instructure, as chief marketing officer ... EShare appoints Niki Sotiropoulou, ex-viva.com, chief marketing officer.

Kelsey Bagot, former NextEra Energy senior attorney, is sworn in as member of Virginia’s State Corporation Commission ... 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 ... 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, as executive vice president-CTO.