Lawler Metzger law firm, specializing in wireline, wireless and satellite communications matters, announces it's shutting with year-end retirements of partners Greg Lawler, Richard Metzger and Gina Keeney … Atlas Digital Group appoints Altice’s Chad Neuhaus as chief operating officer ... Pax8, cloud commerce marketplace, names Robb Reck, ex-Red Canary, as chief trust and security officer … iHeartMedia announces realignment in its Markets Group, shifting division presidents: Bernie Weiss, Paul Corvino and Tom McConnell for Region Division; Kristin Foley, Chris Soechtig, DJ Hodge and Nick Gnau for Metro Division; and Shosh Abromovich and Dan Lankford, Community Division; also promotes Amy Leimbach to president-Austin, Dallas and San Antonio markets; and names Tony Coles president-multicultural business and development and he continues as president of BIN: Black Information Network.

Windstream promotes Joe Scattareggia to president-wholesale, and Mike Flannery to president-enterprise; Scattareggia and Flannery, who previously served as the chief revenue officers of their respective business units, succeed former Windstream Wholesale and Enterprise President Buddy Bayer, departing year-end to pursue another opportunity ... Varnish Software, caching, streaming and content delivery software solutions provider, hires Global Connect’s Fredrik Borg as CEO, succeeding Lars Larsson, moving to a new Varnish role focused on customer acquisition and strategic partnerships.

Optimum hires Comcast’s Michael Parker as executive vice president-business services, newly created role, and promotes David Williams to executive vice president and president-consumer services and Leroy Williams to executive vice president-chief growth and innovation officer ... Arista Networks appoints Aspen Technology’s Chantelle Breithaupt as chief financial officer, effective February ... Cox Enterprises advances Patrick O'Boyle to senior vice president-corporate development, and elevates Rob Huting to vice president-corporate development, reporting to O'Boyle ... Tencent Music Entertainment Group Vice President Lixue Shi resigns for personal reasons, effective Dec. 31.

TechNet promotes Chief Financial Officer-Vice President of Administration Patricia Albertson to CFO-senior vice president of administration … Wiley announces T-Mobile’s Sydney White, former T-Mobile analyst, as special counsel privacy, cyber and data governance and telecom, media and technology practices … Disney adds Morgan Stanley Chairman-CEO James Gorman and former Sky Group Chief Executive Jeremy Darroch to its board; Gorman’s appointment is effective Feb. 5, Darroch's is effective Jan. 9 ... Radware appoints Alex Pinchev, ex-Red Hat, to board until next annual meeting when appointment will be up for a shareholder vote … Musixmatch, global music data platform, names former Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff chief business officer ... Bastion, web3 orchestrator company, promotes Caroline Friedman to chief operating officer ... Inseego, 5G edge cloud solutions company, hires Sierra Wireless’ Keri Bolding as senior vice president-global channel sales and distribution, newly created role.

SkyePoint Decisions, cybersecurity solutions provider to the federal government, promotes Heather Conigliaro to president ... AlertMedia, emergency communications provider, names Marc Ostryniec, ex-BigCommerce, chief revenue officer ... Arkose Labs, bot management and online security company, hires Mimecast’s John Walsh as chief technology officer; Ashish Jain, who previously headed engineering and product for Arkose, moves to chief product officer ... Qrypt, quantum-secure encryption company, adds Roger Biscay, Cisco senior vice president-corporate treasurer and head-global corporate security, to its board of advisers.

NARUC President Julie Fedorchak appoints Iowa Utilities Board member Joshua Byrnes as treasurer ... Ritter Communications promotes Victor Esposito to chief technical officer ... Mimecast moves interim Chief Human Resources Officer Janet Prosper to permanent CHRO; she had served as interim CHRO since October 2022 ... Zscaler hires ServiceNow’s Mike Rich as chief revenue officer-president, global sales, and Joyce Kim, ex-Twilio, as chief marketing officer ... TowerNorth, developer and operator of wireless infrastructure assets in the U.S. and Europe, hires Full Tilt Energy Systems’ Tim Jaki, also former Crown Castle, as chief operating officer; Parallel Infrastructure’s Joshua Mossey as chief financial officer; and American Tower’s Pablo Herrera as vice president-corporate development.

Minutes Network, blockchain-based international voice-calling and wholesale termination service provider, adds Josh Watkins, World Mobile Group co-founder and its former chief information officer, as CEO ... S4 Capital, digital advertising and marketing services company, promotes Melanie Dhawan to chief financial officer for its content practice ... Information Technology and Innovation Foundation announces former Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., now of Arnold and Porter, as board co-chair, succeeding Susan Davis, retiring from that role; Davis is a former Democratic member of Congress from California … Media Institute names First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams of Cahill Gordon as chair of The Madison Project: Free Speech and Press in American Democracy’s steering committee.

2bcloud managed service provider announces Hemant Javeri, an Amazon Web Services ambassador, as head-solution architecture... Preformed Line Products promotes Chief Operating Officer Dennis McKenna to CEO, effective Jan. 1, when current CEO Robert Ruhlman becomes executive chairman ...

ImOn Communications hires David Birnbaum, ex-BlueVoyant as chief information officer; Patty Lynott, ex-Zayo Group as vice president-customer experience, and Cindy Huber, ex-Fiberutilities Group, as vice president-marketing ... Quickplay over-the-top cloud provider names Xavier Marle, ex-iWedia, regional sales director, Southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand.

Optical connectivity company STL hires former TE Connectivity and CommScope executive David De Craemer as head-business, and Tomasz Bednarczyk, ex-Corning, as global R&D head-optical connectivity business ... Silvus Technologies, provider of wireless networking communications systems, taps Getaround’s Eduardo Iniguez, also former HyreCar, as chief financial officer ...