Comcast appoints Lance West, ex-American Petroleum Institute, as executive vice president-federal government affairs and head-Washington, D.C., office, effective Sept. 3 (see 2407290039) ... Networking company ZeroTeir names 7percent Ventures’ Andrew Gault CEO ... Electronics solutions provider Radwell appoints Chris Snodgrass, ex-Caterpillar, CEO, effective Aug. 5 ... NAB appoints Nexstar’s Michael Biard to board ... Data infrastructure company NetApp nominates June Yang, ex-Google, to stand for election to board on Sept. 11.
Gov. Ned Lamont (D) nominates United Illuminating’s David Arconti as commissioner-Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA), to begin Aug. 5 in interim capacity; PURA Vice Chairman John Betkoski retiring at year-end ... Lenovo names Tolga Kurtoglu, ex-HP, as chief technology officer, succeeding Yong Rui, becoming president-Emerging Technology Group ... Kenneth Bible, previously chief information security officer, Department of Homeland Security, joins cybersecurity company Crytica Security’s board.
Omnispace’s Mindel De La Torre, former FCC international bureau chief, joins non-terrestrial network service provider Skylo Technologies as head-regulatory affairs ... Fox News Media names Katherine Meeks, previously Gibson, Dunn, as general counsel, effective Aug. 19; Bernard Gugar steps down as general counsel and executive vice president-corporate development ... Computer networking company Netgear appoints Pramod Badjate, ex-Arista Networks, as president-general manager-Netgear Business; Kirsten Daru, ex-Life360, as general counsel-chief privacy officer; Antonio Lopez Reus, ex-Amazon, as vice president-strategy and strategic partnerships; adds onXmaps’ Laura Orvidas to board; and promotes Fiona Spratt to senior vice president-people ... 5G mobile and fixed wireless solutions provider Inseego appoints Semtech’s David Markland as chief product officer and Dean Antonilli, as senior vice president-sales-service providers and names Sal Aroon, ex-Form, as vice president-head of operations.
CTIA promotes Umair Javed to senior vice president-general counsel, succeeding Tom Power, advising until end of year as senior counsel, and expands Vice President-Deputy General Counsel Kathryn Dall’Asta’s role as also chief-corporate affairs and compliance (see 2407240022) ... Fiber-optic company Luna appoints Kevin Ilcisin, co-founder-Juniper Strategies, as president-CEO, effective Aug. 1, succeeding interim CEO Richard Roedel, who also was interim executive chairman and is stepping down after 20 years with company ... Data security company Bedrock Security names co-founders Bruno Kurtic as president-CEO, Pranava Adduri as chief technology officer, and Ganesha Shanmuganathan as chief architect ... IT provider CompQsoft appoints Beth Barnes, ex-Alithya, as chief digital officer ... Emergency communication company AlertMedia appoints Jeff Dean, ex-Databricks, as vice president-global intelligence operations ... Harmonic, broadband and video delivery company, appoints Congruex’s Neel Dev to board ... Aviation broadband company Gogo appoints investor Monte Koch to board.
SmallSat Alliance hires Microsoft’s Angel Smith as executive director, succeeding Steve Nixon, co-founder who remains as strategic adviser ... Digital services firm Orion Innovation appoints Cyrus Lam, ex-CDI, as CFO ... Data recovery company Clumio adds Jillian Souza, ex-BigPanda, as chief people officer and Carol Hague, previously Salesloft, as vice president-marketing ... Family Entertainment Television appoints Christine Carbia, ex-E.W. Scripps, as vice president-national sales ... Technology distribution company Graybar promotes Jason Casey to vice president-distribution operations ... Brillio names Melissa Bethell, previously Bain Capital, to board ... Technology platform company Lightwave Logic appoints consultant Yves LeMaitre, ex-Luna Innovations, to board, effective Aug. 1.
Thomas Earnest, previously Matterhorn Legal, joins Mintz as member-corporate practice, for clients including technology, videogaming and digital media ... Sivers Semiconductors appoints Vickram Vathulya, ex-Nuvotronics, as president-CEO, succeeding Anders Storm, effective Aug. 19... Data solutions company Somos appoints Kayla Gardner, ex-Google, as director-public policy and government affairs and expands role of Joel Bernstein to vice president-head-U.S. public policy and government relations ... Sophos hires Teresa Anania, ex-Zendesk, as chief customer officer ... Cybersecurity company Blumira hires Marc Davis, previously Davmar Consulting, as channel development leader.
Hilary Lane, previously Holland and Knight, joins Ballard Spahr as privacy and data security partner ... Computer networking company Cornelis Networks appoints Intel’s Lisa Spelman as CEO, succeeding Philip Murphy, becoming president and COO, effective Aug. 15 ... Streaming service MainStreaming appoints Nicola Micali, ex-Akamai Technologies, as chief customer officer.
FCC staff changes: Wireline Bureau’s Lauren Garry ends her detail to Commissioner Brendan Carr’s office; Nese Guendelsberger, acting legal adviser-wireless to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, returns to International Bureau; Anna Holland leaves Commissioner Anna Gomez’s office for National Institute on Aging; Flynn Rico-Johnson, ex-office of Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., joins Starks’ office as policy adviser; Brian Phillips, ex-office of Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., joins Office of Media Relations as deputy director; Troy Tanner shifts from Space Bureau to acting director-Office of International Affairs (see 2407180021); and retiring are: Carol Edwards, Office of the Managing Director; Paul Murray, Office of Engineering and Technology; Paul D'Ari, Wireless Bureau; and David Sieradzki, Public Safety Bureau.
Copyright Office promotes Malcolm Hawkins to deputy director-operations ... Internet security company McAfee appoints Craig Boundy, ex-Experian, as president-CEO, effective Aug. 21 ... Vantage Data Centers adds Emily Friedberg, previously SkySafe, as chief technology and innovation officer ... Cloud networking company Aviatrix hires Anirban Sengupta, ex-Google, as chief technology officer-senior vice president-engineering ... Patrick Scully, previously Ciena, joins telecom company Quantum Corridor as chief product officer ... Communications infrastructure provider Vivacity Infrastructure Group promotes Kyle Hildebrand to chief revenue officer and Amanda Borrett to vice president-business development ... Family Entertainment Television names Kyle Patten, ex-Univision, as senior vice president-performance sales ... Dennis Mulder, ex-Microsoft, joins data infrastructure company Volumez as vice president-customer success ... Foundation Stack AI appoints Palantir Technologies’ Charlie Cleveland as strategic adviser.
The Motion Picture Association appoints Amazon’s Marissa Bostick as senior vice president-head of global litigation ... Cloud storage company Box appoints Samantha Wessels, previously Snyk, as president-Europe, Middle East, and Africa ... Cybersecurity company NST Cyber hires Pradeep Kumar, ex-IBM, as senior vice president-chief product architect ... Hitachi cloud management subsidiary Hitachi Vantara appoints Joe Novak, ex-NetApp, as senior vice president-global customer success and support ... Cybersecurity company Gorilla Technology appoints Visionario Venture Capital’s Keith Levy to board.