NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell departs, effective immediately, following investigation into complaint of inappropriate conduct with a woman employee ... Telecommunications company CoreNOC adds former CTIA President-CEO Steve Largent as executive strategic adviser ... End-to-end streaming company ViewLift adds former Amazon Prime Video Senior Product Manager Jeff Douglas as chief customer officer ... Autonomous driving company Wayve hires Google’s Silvius Rus as vice president-software ... Mistplay, discovery platform for mobile games, promotes Chief Growth Officer Jason Heller to CEO and adds former Match Group Americas CEO Amarnath Thombre to its board; founder and former CEO Henri-Charles Machalani will remain an active board member ... Cloud networking company Extreme Networks hires Duck Creek Technologies’ Kevin Rhodes as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective May 30 ... Cyber risk management company Outpost24 taps VMware’s Brendan Hogan as chief strategy officer ... Jim Henson Co. names Mythical Entertainment’s Tara Billik vice president-feature films ... Online publisher platform Sovrn hires former Vox Media Chief Operating Officer Chris George as president ...
Digital media measurement platform DoubleVerify hires GoPuff’s Daniel Slotwiner, also former Facebook director-advertising research, as senior vice president-attention ... Ad Council names 19 new members to its board, including: Jeremi Gorman, Netflix president-worldwide advertising; Catherine Newman, WWE executive vice president-marketing; Chris Rogers, Instacart chief business officer; Gayle Troberman, iHeartMedia chief marketing officer; Tiffany Xingyu Wang, OpenWeb chief marketing and trust officer; and Clifford Young, Ipsos president-U.S. public affairs.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces retirements of Lisa Gelb, Enforcement Bureau deputy chief-chief of staff; Lia Royle, lawyer, Enforcement Bureau’s Market Disputes Resolution Division; and engineer Nam Pham, Office of Engineering and Technology; moves Jonathan Campbell, Auctions Division chief, Office of Economics and Analytics, to her office to cover wireless, Space Bureau and international items; shifts Craig Bromberg to acting Auctions Division chief; and moves to permanent slots Joel Taubenblatt, as Wireless Bureau chief, and D'wana Terry, as Office of Workplace diversity chief.
Manatt Phelps adds former FTC and DOJ official Paul Luehr, also ex-Faegre Drinker, as a privacy and data security partner in Washington, D.C. ... Autonomous security platform SentinelOne names Elastic’s Sally Jenkins, also former Informatica, VMware and Symantec. chief marketing officer ... New hires at connectivity platform Boomi: Greg Wolfe, ex-Adobe, as chief commercial officer; Rahim Bhatia, ex-SAP, as chief strategy officer; Jessica Soisson, ex-Citrix Systems, as chief accounting officer; Dan McAllister, ex-Salesforce, as senior vice president-global alliances and channels; and Troy Anderson, ex-Google Cloud, as global vice president-commercial market ... Telecommunications infrastructure company Harbor Link names Susan Hageman, ex-Assured Communications Advisors, president-business development and sales.
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).