Comcast promotes Chris Smith to senior vice president-Greater Chicago region, effective May 8 ... SoundExchange hires Warner Music Group’s Kathleen Strouse as senior vice president-operations, Cumulus Media’s Doug Cohn as vice president-artist and label relations, and Amanda Carmichael, ex-Phonographic Performance Limited, as vice president-international ... Digital analytics platform Amplitude names former Instabase and Microsoft executive Nathaniel Crook chief revenue officer, replacing Matt Heinz, staying until mid-May ... Comtech names Ursa Space Systems’ Nicole Robinson, also former SES, chief strategy officer ... Allen Media Group names Princell Hair executive vice president-Allen Media Group and president-Allen Media Broadcasting; Hair previously was with Black News Channel, which Allen rebranded as TheGrio Television Network after buying it last year.

National Wireless Safety Alliance appoints Johnny Crawford, Vertical Bridge executive vice president-tower development; Amanda Freeman, Crown Castle director of safety-tower assets; Leticia Latino-van Splunteran, Neptuno USA CEO; and Jim Tracy, Legacy Telecommunications co-founder, to board of governors … Stratus Networks names former Skywire Networks President Darren Feder CEO ... Periphery, media workflow solutions company, names Seagate Technology’s Seth Cohen vice president-sales, Americas, and Jordan Woods and Lenny Khaitov, both ex-NetApp, senior solutions architects ... Q4, market communications platform provider, names VersaPay’s Keith Reed chief operating officer; Donna de Winter remains chief financial officer while moving her COO responsibilities to Reed ... Empower AI names former McKinsey & Co. partner Paul Harrington chief growth officer ... NBC/Telemundo names CNBC’s Sally Ramirez senior vice president-news for Chicago’s WMAQ and WSNS, newly created role, effective May 22, and promotes Akemi Harrison to news director, WMAQ.

Alaska Communications names WJW Holdings Managing General Partner Jim McCarley interim CEO; President-CEO Bill Bishop takes health-related leave of absence ... Rogers hires Nutrien’s Michael Webb as senior vice president-chief administrative officer ... AI company SambaNova Systems names Richard Halkett, ex-Amazon Web Services, chief revenue officer, and Danner Stodolsky, ex-Google, senior vice president-cloud ... Metamagnetics, supplier of RF magnetics solutions to the telecommunications industry, names Chairman Vince Harris to additional role of CEO, and promotes Vice President-Operations Lee Burns to president-chief operating officer ... Threat detection and response platform Securonix names Axonius’ Jerry Raphael chief financial officer ... Accenture adds Unilever CEO Alan Jope to its board, expanding it to 10 members ...

Viasat names former Verizon Media Group CEO Guru Gowrappan president ... Bitly hires Kaplan North America’s Elisa Watts as chief people officer and Groupon’s Kevin Raheja as vice president-partnerships, and promotes Jackie Cureton to chief diversity officer ... MIT Solve, social impact innovation initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, makes acting Executive Director Hala Hanna permanent ... Lithium-ion battery developer Microvast names Isida Tushe, ex-mPhase Technologies, general counsel and corporate secretary ... EnCharge AI, edge-cloud AI developer, names Ram Rangarajan, ex-Intel, senior vice president-product and strategy ... UiPath, enterprise automation software company, adds former Walmart Chief Information Officer Karenann Terrell to its board ... Devtech, digital innovation services company, promotes Jelena Suboticki Berar to vice president-people and culture ... Project44, supply chain visibility platform, names Nubank’s Renee Mauldin chief people officer.

North American Broadcasters Association appoints Summit Ridge Group’s Rebecca Hanson, ex-Sinclair, director-general, beginning April 15 as designate alongside Director-General Michael McEwen before taking full responsibility July 1; McEwen retiring this summer.

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces senior counsel Julie Kearney as chief of the agency's newly launched Space Bureau; Rosenworcel also names legal adviser Ethan Lucarelli as Office of International Affairs chief and moves Office of Engineering and Technology acting Chief Ronald Repasi and Wireless Bureau acting Chief Joel Taubenblatt into those permanent spots (see 2304110002).

Mintz appoints member Angela Kung to co-lead the firm’s Technology, Communications & Media practice along with existing Chair Tara Corvo ... Disney moves Hulu President Joe Earley to Disney Entertainment president-direct-to-consumer, succeeding Michael Paull; Earley continues leading Hulu until a successor is identified … IDirect Government satellite applications company names Tim Winter, from company’s ST Engineering iDirect parent, interim president, replacing John Ratigan … IHeartMedia names Amazon’s Jon Kurland executive vice president-business affairs and chief entertainment counsel ... Nexstar names Operative’s Jamie Calandruccio executive vice president-platform monetization and strategy, newly created role.

NEC America rehires Kris Ranganat from Paravision.ai as senior vice president-digital platform ... AI semiconductor company Tenstorrent adds former Intel Chief Architect Raja Koduri to its board; Tenstorrent co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Ljubisa Bajic scaling back his full-time role, will remain involved with the company as advisor ... Business-only fiber network Everstream names Wipro’s Ken Fitzpatrick, also ex-Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable, president-CEO, succeeding Bill Major, who was acting president-CEO since February ... Electric vehicle developer Rivian Automotive hires 30-year Mercedes Benz veteran Martin Huelder as vice president-commercial, Europe ... Cloud database company MariaDB names Conor McCarthy, ex-Ideanomics, chief financial officer ...

Disney names Asad Ayaz its first chief brand officer, in addition to his continuing role as president-marketing, Walt Disney Studios ... Communications and software company Windstream promotes Genesis White to vice president-investor relations ... Arrcus, hyperscale networking software company, adds former Vodafone Chief Technology Officer Johan Wibergh to its executive advisory board ... Internet connectivity company Bigleaf Networks names company investor and adviser Steve Braverman chief sales officer ... International Association of Privacy Professionals adds ZoomInfo Chief Compliance Officer Simon McDougall to its board ... Sidus Space appoints former McKinsey & Co. consultant Leonardo Riera to its board ... Electric vehicle developer Rivian Automotive hires Fastly’s Mike Johnson as chief information security officer ... NinjaOne, unified IT management platform, hires Vyopta’s Joe Lohmeier, also former VMware, Cisco and Avaya, as its first global channel chief ... Cybersecurity compliance solutions company A-Lign names Ryan Grace, ex-mobile app company Hero, chief revenue officer and SAP’s Giles House chief marketing and product officer ... IoT tokenization company True I/O adds Crypto.com Vice President-North America Karl Turner to its board of advisers ...

FedEx taps President-CEO Raj Subramaniam to assume those roles when its operating companies are consolidated into a single organization by June 2024; John Smith named FedEx Express president-CEO, U.S. and Canada ground operations, and Richard Smith named FedEx Express president-CEO, airline and international, both effective April 16 ... Zayo Group, communications infrastructure platform, names Verizon’s Jeffrey Noto chief financial officer ... Conversational AI company Marchex hires Govplace’s Troy Hartless as chief revenue officer ... Web3 company Tokens.com promotes Eric Abrahams to chief operating officer and Jonathan Okihiro to chief investment officer ... Cathedra Bitcoin names Drew Armstrong chairman, in addition to his role as president, replacing Roy Sebag, resigned ... Typeform, conversational data collection platform, names MessageBird’s Michael Bannon president-CFO ... Zayo names Verizon veteran Jeff Noto chief financial officer.