President Joe Biden formally sends to Senate his nomination of former NTIA acting Administrator Anna Gomez to the vacant fifth FCC seat and nominations of sitting Commissioners Brendan Carr and Geoffrey Starks for new terms (see 2305310055) … News/Media Alliance promotes Executive Vice President-General Counsel Danielle Coffey to president-CEO.
NCTA hires Rikin Thakker, ex-Wireless Infrastructure Association, as chief technology officer and senior vice president-technology ... MPA Senior Adviser Vans Stevenson leaving to become consultant on state and local government affairs projects … SatixFy Communications, Israeli satellite communications company, names former Chief Commercial Officer Nir Barkan acting CEO, effective Thursday, replacing former CEO Ido Gur, leaving ... Advantage Communications Group names Code42’s Eric Wansong global chief operating officer … Spot, third-party logistics company, names former Hammond Kennedy partner John Carsello chief of staff, newly created role ... Public affairs firm Oaktree Solutions names Smart City Expo USA CEO Aarti Tandon managing director-equity, entertainment and technology.
Mintz names Reza Dokhanchy, ex-Kirkland & Ellis, a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice … NCTA names Mansoor Abdul Khadir, ex-Democratic National Committee, associate vice president-external affairs, and Michael Pauls, from USTelecom, vice president-government relations.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) appoints Wesley Bennett, commissioner-Department of Local Government Finance, to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, effective June 26; replacing Stefanie Krevda, who stepped down … Public Service Commission of West Virginia promotes Andy Gallagher to communications director … Alan Chartock retires as WAMC Albany president-CEO; Operations and Engineering Director Stacey Rosenberry is interim CEO … CBS Stations promotes Kari Patey to vice president-producer development for 14 CBS local newsrooms across country, new position; she remains vice president-news director, CBS News Minnesota, until successor is found.
RealNetworks promotes Chris Wheaton to president-chief operating officer and chief financial officer; Michael Parham departs as senior vice president-general counsel, effective June 30 ... Cloud-based platform AuditBoard adds former Medallia Chief Financial Officer Roxanne Oulman to its board ... Cybersecurity company Exabeam adds Blue Owl Capital’s Pravin Vazirani to its board ... Identity verification company SecureAuth names former 8x8 CEO Vikram Verma chairman ... BAE Systems adds former Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., to its board ... PlusMusic, adaptive audio AI startup for the gaming industry, adds former Sony Interactive Entertainment executive Shawn Layden to its board ... Cybersecurity vendor SoSafe adds former Palo Alto Networks Chief Marketing Officer Zeynep Inanoglu Ozdemir and Bhagwat Swaroop, Entrust president-digital security solutions, to its board.
American Public Television names PBS Senior Vice President James Dunford president-CEO, effective June 12; he succeeds Cynthia Fenneman, retiring in early June … Former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis returns to Paladin Capital Group as strategic adviser; he was a Paladin managing director for seven years before joining President Joe Biden’s White House ... Harmonic names Lumentum’s Walter Jankovic chief financial officer ... Intelligent connectivity company Boomi names MuleSoft’s Josh Rutberg, also ex-Bain & Co., chief customer officer ... Optiva, supplier of cloud-native revenue management software for the telecommunications industry, names Mobileum’s Michele Campriani chief revenue officer.
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.