Akin Gump hires former Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring and rehires former Virginia Deputy Solicitor Martine Cicconi as partners in Washington to co-lead the firm’s dedicated state attorneys general practice ... Wedbush Securities names Imtiaz Koujalgi, ex-Guggenheim Partners, managing director-equity research, software ... Liberty Media Chief Portfolio Officer Courtnee Chun to move to senior adviser role, effective Jan. 3; Shane Kleinstein promoted to head-investor relations ... Legal services provider TCDI adds Juul Labs’ Andrew Cosgrove as chief strategy officer, effective in January ... PsiQuantum names Roland Acra, ex-Cisco, chief business officer … IoT platform company LocatorX adds retired Army Maj. Gen. James Myles to its board.
NATOA hires Mike Lynch, Boston’s director of broadband and digital equity, as legislative director, effective Jan. 16 … American Antitrust Institute names Kathleen Bradish, from Cleary Gottlieb, vice president-legal advocacy, effective Monday; she succeeds Randy Stutz, “moving to public service in 2023” … AI technologies company Quantarium taps Claudiu Bulai, former Meta Reality Labs senior director, as chief information officer ... Quantum computing company IonQ names Nvidia’s Rima Alameddine chief revenue officer, and adds Secureworks CEO Wendy Thomas to its board, replacing Byers Capital founder Blake Byers ... Skybox Security hires CyberArk’s Corey Williams as chief marketing officer.
CTIA names Jeremy Crandall, ex-National Association of Community Health Centers, assistant vice president-state legislative affairs … HWG promotes telecom lawyer Jason Neal to partner … Former FCC Media Bureau Deputy Chief Michelle Carey joins Charter Communications as vice president-policy.
Imax China names Daniel Manwaring, ex-Creative Artists Agency, CEO, effective Jan. 9, succeeding interim CEO Jiande Chen, who will return to his full-time role as vice chairman ... Survey Monkey parent company Momentive taps Acorns’ Rich Sullivan, also former DreamWorks Animation and Twitter, as chief financial officer ... Mobile communications services provider Kaleyra announces intention of CEO Dario Calogero to step down and move to chief strategy officer, effective with the appointment of his successor; Kaleyra also adds former Nitro Software CFO Kathy Miller and ex-Alorica CFO Karin-Joyce Tjon to its board, expanding it to eight members.
Global Semiconductor Alliance names Marvell Technology CEO Matt Murphy its new chair ... Contract manufacturer Sanmina adds Bramshill Investments Chief Strategy Officer David Hedley to its board ... IoT platform LocatorX names Chris Janko, ex-Celonis, senior vice president-sales ... Collaborative commerce platform Innoviti Technologies hires Debashree Basu, former Intel head-corporate communications for India and South Asia, as senior vice president-marketing and communications, Innoviti India ... Haivision Systems names Synamedia’s Jean-Marc Racine chief product officer effective Jan. 2 ... Helios Technologies taps Welbilt’s Lee Wichlacz as president-electronics, newly created position ... World Film Industry Conference elects Haige Wang as chairman for a four-year term; Wang, a representative of Macau and chairman of the Aollywood Film Workers Association, is the first Chinese representative elected as conference chairman.
ACA Connects promotes Brian Hurley to chief regulatory counsel … Sinclair promotes Scott Shapiro to executive vice president-corporate development and strategy ... Alpha and Omega Semiconductor promotes President Stephen Chang to CEO, effective March 1, when current Chairman-CEO Mike Chang becomes executive chairman ... Zoomd Technologies names Ido Almany, ex-American Express, CEO to succeed Ofer Eitan, who previously announced he was stepping down, but will remain a board member.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) appoints his deputy legislative director, Courtney Hjaltman, as chief executive and public counsel for the Office of Public Utility Counsel, effective Dec. 19, for a term set to expire Feb. 1; she replaces Lori Cobos (see 2106110072) , who resigned in June 2021 … AI digital advertising platform Kerv Interactive promotes Jay Wolff to chief revenue officer, and hires Creed Pettit, former TikTok media and entertainment vertical sales leader, to replace Wolff as senior vice president ... Boomi, intelligent connectivity and automation platform, names former Adobe executive Steve Lucas CEO, succeeding David Meredith, leaving ... Strategic intelligence company Strider Technologies adds former Defense Department official and ex-Symantec CEO Michael Brown to its board.
Wireless Infrastructure Association hires Deb Bennett, a contractor with WIA’s Telecommunications Industry Registered Apprenticeship Program, as vice president-apprenticeship for Workforce Solutions; in this role, she continues her work with TIRAP … Wilson Sonsini names Haley Bavasi, for privacy and cybersecurity practice, among 18 new partners-elect, their promotions effective Feb. 1 ... International Electrotechnical Commission’s U.S. National Committee elects CTA Vice President-Standards Programs Veronica Lancaster as its new president, succeeding UL’s Kevin Lippert, president since 2019.
Wilkinson Barker names Dane Snowden, former the Internet Association CEO, senior adviser … Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) announces departure of Chief Information Technology Officer DeAngela Burns-Wallace, effective Jan. 6; she returns to teaching in the spring; successor not named … Motion Picture Association names Brandon Reese, ex-Wellstar Health System, vice president-state government affairs, Southeast Region, as part of MPA’s shifting to regional structure, effective Jan. 3 … Project Liberty nonprofit focused on digital governance names former World Economic Forum executive Martina Larkin its first CEO.
Wireless Infrastructure Association announces departure of Matt Mandel, senior vice president-government and public affairs, effective immediately … Travis Litman, ex-FCC, joins Wilkinson Barker as partner-telecom and technology ... Ribbon Communications names Juniper Networks’ Dan Redington executive vice president-sales, Americas, succeeding Steven Bruny, retiring in early 2023 ... Astra Space moves product engineering executive Giovanni Greco to newly expanded role in charge of launch system delivery; program management executive Jonathan Donaldson now accountable for leading Astra spacecraft engine delivery; Benjamin Lyon resigns as chief engineer and executive vice president-operations and engineering.