Wiley announces former Senate Commerce Committee staffer Crystal Tully as special counsel in the firm’s Telecom, Media and Technology Practice … Data center developer CyrusOne says CFO Katherine Motlagh will leave June 1; Senior Vice President-Finance Michael Schafer becomes interim CFO on Motlagh’s departure while the company launches a search for her permanent successor ... Gray Television promotes Senior Managing Vice President Sandy Breland to executive vice president-chief operating officer, succeeding Bob Smith, retired … Private equity firm Welsh Carson adds Dun & Bradstreet’s Andrew Hausman, also former IDC, as an operating partner-technology group.
Ofinno, R&D lab for wireless communication and video coding technologies, promotes Chief Intellectual Property Officer Kavon Nasabzadeh to CEO; Esmael Dinan, Ofinno CEO since its 2011 founding, moves to chief technology officer ... Science Applications International Corp. names Toni Townes-Whitley, Microsoft president-U.S. regulated industries, its next CEO, and adds her to its board, effective Oct. 2, succeeding Nazzic Keene, who will retire effective Oct. 2; Townes-Whitley’s start date is June 12 as CEO-elect; Keene continues as CEO through Oct. 1, then becomes adviser through Feb. 2 ... Opsera, development and operations platform, hires HMG Ventures Managing Partner Patty Hatter, also ex-Palo Alto Networks, as president-chief operating officer.
Industry Data Exchange Association names Crissty Carrington, ex-Lonestar Lighting and Technology, IDEA Connector director-business development … Spire Global announces resignation of Chief Financial Officer Thomas Krywe, effective Sept. 30 … Data security company Dasera names Terry Hill, ex-Fastly and former AT&T, chief revenue officer ... Performed Line Products networking company promotes Ryan Ruhlman to president, replacing his father, Robert Ruhlman, who remains chairman-CEO ... Cybersecurity company Stairwell names Eric Foster, ex-Cyderes, vice president-business development ... Managed security provider Security Validation names Jonathan Hale, ex-NuArx, chief technology officer ... Data center developer EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure hires Digital Realty’s John Bean as chief legal officer.
CTIA names David Valdez, ex-Meta, vice president-privacy and cybersecurity … District of Columbia Council confirms Heather McGaffin, Office of Unified Communications deputy director, as OUC’s director (see 2305170017) … Zscaler cloud security company names Salesforce’s Syam Nair chief technology officer and executive vice president-R&D, effective May 24 … Render Networks, geospatial network construction company, names Nokia’s Don Wadas chief revenue officer ... Juniper Networks taps Palo Alto Networks' Jean English, also ex-NetApp, as senior vice president-chief marketing officer ... Riedel Networks taps former Euro Media Group executive Timo Koch as chief commercial officer-media division.
FTC Policy Adviser Maurice Stucke says he’s starting new post as nongovernmental adviser, International Competition Network … Orange Business names Usman Javaid, ex-Amazon Web Services, chief products and marketing officer, and BT Global’s Hriday Ravindranath chief technology and information officer ... NWN Carousel, cloud communications service provider, promotes Andrea Morrison to chief people officer ... Microdisplay developer Kopin names Iwan Dodd, ex-Gooch & Housego, vice president-business development ... Cloud connectivity company Connectbase names Edison Smith, ex-Telnyx, vice president-sales, Europe, the Middle East and Africa ... CesiumAstro, space-based communications solutions company, adds former Volkswagen Group of America CEO Hinrich Woebcken as senior executive adviser ... CISO Global names Chief Financial Officer Deb Smith to board … Identity verification platform Trulioo adds former LinkedIn General Counsel Erika Rottenberg to its board.
Source Defense protection and data privacy compliance company founding member Ross Hogan, ex-HUB Security, returns as CEO … Sarcos Technology and Robotics names former Boeing executive and current Sarcos board member Laura Peterson interim president-CEO, replacing outgoing President-CEO Kiva Allgood ...Digital engineering company Persistent Systems names Wipro’s Gurvinder Sahni chief marketing officer … Lodestone Security names Sophos’ Erin Malone chief revenue officer ... Cloud security company Lacework hires Lea Kissner, ex-Twitter and former Apple, as chief information security officer.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) swears in Daymark Energy Advisors’ Carolyn Gilbert for six-year term on the state Public Utilities Commission … Twitter names NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino CEO, effective this summer, with Elon Musk transitioning to executive chairman-chief technology officer (see 2305120035) … Kajeet, IoT solutions company, names Kore’s Esteban Ibarra vice president-channel sales.
McCarter & English adds to its Intellectual Property practice James Smedley and Alex Korona, as partners, both from Ellenoff Grossman … IT research and advisory firm Info-Tech Research Group names BDO Canada’s Neil Shankman, ex-Google, global chief marketing officer … Lumen Technologies names Kye Prigg, ex-Rogers Communications, executive vice president-enterprise operations, effective June 1 ... Anti-ransomware platform Halcyon names Kris Lamb, ex-uShip and ex-Forcepoint, chief product officer ... ScanSource promotes Vice President-Corporate Controller Brandy Ford to senior vice president-chief accounting officer ... Quantum computing company IonQ names Amazon’s Pat Tang, also ex-Apple, vice president-R&D.
Utilities Technology Council names former Board Chair Ron Beck, from Central Lincoln People's Utility District, as interim president-CEO while search is underway to replace Sheryl Osiene-Riggs, whose last day with UTC was Tuesday; promotes Kevin Lynch, senior director-finance and operations, to vice president-finance, a post he held as interim since January ... Open Source Security Foundation announces Omkhar Arasaratnam, ex-New York University, as general manager.
GPS Innovation Alliance names Lisa Dyer, ex-Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, executive director … Electronic Frontier Foundation Senior Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon says he’s running for a California state Senate seat (see 2305090063) … Performanta cybersecurity company names former bp Chief-Information Security Simon Hodgkinson strategic adviser … Calendly names former Salesforce Senior Vice President-Product and General Manager Stephen Hsu chief product officer ... Reliable Robotics adds NASA’s Davis Hackenberg as vice president-government partnerships ... Cognyte Software, investigative analytics software platform, adds former RR Media CEO Avi Cohen to its board, effective June 4.