ACA Connects names Bill Tortoriello, ex-UScellular and AT&T, director-regulatory affairs … Aviatrix, cloud networking company, hires former Splunk CEO Doug Merritt as president-CEO, succeeding Steve Mullaney; Merritt also becomes board chairman … PCTel elects Ocolo’s Anthony Rossabi, also ex-Recovery Point Systems CEO, to its board ... Postmedia names lead director Peter Sharpe interim chair, replacing departed Executive Chair Jamie Irving ... Communications security platform Pavion promotes Alan Rosenkoff to chief marketing officer.
Motion Picture Association names GoDigital Media Group’s Hunter Paletsas global chief financial officer, effective July 24, succeeding David England, retired … Zayo hires PacketFabric’s Anna Claiborne as senior vice president-packet and product software engineering … PureHD, supplier of Dish Network entertainment services to hotels, names Allbridge’s Craig Snelgrove chief marketing officer ... ACH oversight company Nacha names Wells Fargo’s Jennifer Stokley general counsel, succeeding Jeanette Hait Blanco, retiring soon ... Thomas Isen and Alex Yudelson, former White House advisers under President Joe Biden, form Second Floor Advisors, strategic communications firm ... Gaming accessories company Turtle Beach names Senior Vice President-Global Sales Cris Keirn interim CEO, effective July 1, replacing Juergen Stark, as search is underway for Stark's permanent successor ... InDrive, mobility and urban services platform, names Honeywell’s Mark Loughran, also ex-Microsoft, group president, effective July 12 ... Qyou Media, social media content platform, nominates Raj Mishra, TikTok’s former country manager in India, for election to its board at July 17 annual meeting ... Canadian tech company Valour adds Sue Ennis, Hut 8 vice president-corporate development, to its board.
Wilson Sonsini adds Cooley’s Matt Dubofsky as a corporate partner, focusing on work including tech transactions, in its Boulder, Colorado, office ... FedEx Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Michael Lenz to retire, effective July 31; with external search underway for his successor, Lenz will stay on as a senior adviser until Dec. 31 ... Belden moves President-Smart Buildings Jay Wirts to executive vice president-enterprise solutions, newly created role ... Investment manager Star Mountain Capital names former Goldman Sachs executive MaryAnn Stauffer a managing director ... Cybersecurity company Exabeam promotes Chief Product Officer Adam Geller to CEO; former CEO Michael DeCesare remaining board adviser ... IT consultancy Xebia names former Amazon Web Services executive Guido Bartels global managing director-cloud ... Devo Technology, cloud-native security analytics company, names Outpost24 Group’s Trevor Crompton area vice president-Europe, the Middle East and Africa ... Barracuda Networks hires BlackLine’s Siroui Mushegian, also ex-WNET Group, as chief information officer ... Authomize, identity threat detection and response platform, adds Joram Borenstein, Microsoft general manager-technical adviser, to its board ... Optiva, cloud-native billing platform for the telecom industry, names Chairman Robert Stabile interim CEO, replacing President-CEO John Giere, resigning after transition period; Mary-Lynn Oke, president of her own professional consultancy, joins as chief financial officer, effective July 1 ... Rob Flaherty departs June 30 as White House director-digital strategy.
Squire Patton adds Everett Eissenstat, former deputy director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump, as a partner for its public policy team ... Latino Media Network names SiriusXM’s Rose-Anne Tifre chief revenue officer ... VF names former Logitech President-CEO Bracken Darrell CEO, effective July 17; Benno Dorer, interim president-CEO since Dec. 5, will remain a VF board member; interim Chair Richard Carucci becomes permanent chair ... Somos, phone number administration platform, adds Hudson Strategic Advisors Managing Principal Lisa Crutchfield and Brook Colangelo, former White House chief information officer under President Barack Obama, to its board ... Entravision names Michael Christenson, ex-New Relic and CA Technologies, CEO, effective July 1 ... 8x8 taps Twilio’s Lisa Martin as CRO ... Empower AI names Jim Rittinger, ex-MFGS, general counsel-corporate secretary ... Charge Enterprises, electric vehicle charging infrastructure company, adds DigitalBridge Chief Financial Officer Jacky Wu, also ex-American Tower and Verizon, to its board ... Instapage, landing page solutions company, promotes Chief Operations Officer Imran Syed to CEO ... LocatorX, open IoT hardware and software company, names Infleqtion’s Chester Kennedy CEO; previous CEO Scott Fletcher moves to chief commercial officer ... Cybersecurity company Lodestone taps Kudelski Security’s Francisco Donoso as chief technology officer ... New hires at Apexon, digital tech services company: Anand Kabra, ex-Wipro Technologies, as chief people and transformation officer; Sandeep Dhar, ex-Goldman Sachs, as chief delivery officer; and Srinivasan Jayaraman, HCL Technologies, as CRO.
Disney Chief Financial Officer Christine McCarthy departing her role and taking family medical leave, will continue as a strategic adviser; effective July 1, Kevin Lansberry, CFO-Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, becomes interim corporate Disney CFO until McCarthy's permanent successor is found ... Comcast returns Justin Damiano to Southwest Florida as director-government affairs after six years as senior manager-external affairs for Comcast’s Big South region in Atlanta ... Whiteford Taylor names Lori Brown-Simmons, ex-DLA Piper, executive director ... BJ’s Wholesale Club adds Leslie’s Chairman Steven Ortega and Sysco Chief Supply Chain Officer Marie Robinson to its board ... Honeywell Aerospace promotes President-Electronic Solutions Jim Currier to president-CEO, effective Aug. 1, succeeding Mike Madsen, retiring.
Black Effect Podcast Network adds Operation Hope Chairman-CEO John Hope Bryant to its board ... Wilson Sonsini adds former Spaceflight CEO Curt Blake as senior of counsel in its Seattle office as firm launches NewSpace industry group ... Digital consultancy Forum One promotes Chief Strategy Officer Elisabeth Bradley to CEO, effective Aug. 1, succeeding Chris Wolz, who previously announced his retirement ... Retail delivery platform Shipt names Meta’s Katie Stratton its first chief growth officer ... Hewlett Packard Enterprise adds ex-Ixia CEO and former HP executive Bethany Mayer to its board ... Clear elects CrowdStrike Chief Security Officer Shawn Henry to its board ... Wallbox, electric vehicle charging platform, names Erik Fogelberg, ex-ChargePoint and ex-Tesla, general manager-North America ... Self-driving company Aurora promotes David Maday to chief financial officer, replacing Richard Tame, departing Aug. 31 ... Video telematics company Lytx names Microsoft’s Casey McGee chief revenue officer ... FirstNet Authority promotes Renee Gordon to vice chair.
Rick Baldridge retires as Viasat vice chairman, effective June 30, but remains a board member ... Clearwave Fiber names Fiberlight’s Jonathan Couch chief financial officer ... AccuWeather promotes President Steven Smith to CEO, succeeding founder Joel Myers, who moves to executive chairman, new strategic leadership role ... Warner Bros. Pictures Animation names Shane Prigmore, former Skydance Animation, Disney Television Animation and DreamWorks Animation, senior creative adviser ... Logitech names board member Guy Gecht interim CEO to replace departing President-CEO Bracken Darrell, who also leaves the board ... Yahoo hires Sorare’s Ryan Spoon, also former BetMGM and ESPN, as president-Yahoo Sports ... Hewlett Packard Enterprise names Rom Kosla, ex-Retail Business Services, chief information officer, effective in July ... Momentive, newly rebranded again as SurveyMonkey, promotes interim Chief Marketing Officer Eric Johnson to CEO, replacing Zander Lurie, who recently left ... Skybox Security names EclecticIQ’s Jay Zimmet chief revenue officer ... Data protection platform Next hires CrowdStrike’s John Stringer as head-product and promotes Chris Denbigh-White to chief security officer ... Inbenta, conversational AI platform, names Adam Rivera, ex-DoorDash, chief legal officer ... Intrado Life & Safety adds Lauren Kravetz as vice president-government affairs, after she leaves FCC Public Safety Bureau at the end of June.
Wilson Sonsini names Yann Padova, ex-Baker McKenzie, a Brussels-based partner for its regulatory and compliance department and member of its privacy and cybersecurity practice ... IASCA names Outerwall’s Erik Prusch, also ex-NetMotion Wireless, CEO ... RingCentral hires Bobbie Grafeld, from videogame publisher 2K, as chief human resources officer ... Workday names Salesforce’s Emma Chalwin, also ex-Macrovision, McAfee and Adobe, chief marketing officer, effective July 17 ... Customer intelligence company Acxiom hires Adobe’s Judith Hammerman as senior vice president-cloud growth, newly created role ... Media agency Known names TikTok’s Todd Triplett its first global executive creative director; and Warner Bros. Discovery’s Jordan Schultz as head-social; and promotes Aya Baeshean to head-design ... Data privacy company RadarFirst adds former USAA Chief Privacy Officer Judy Titera as a strategic adviser ... Ad agency Ogury adds InfoSum Chairman-CEO Brian Lesser, also former Xandr, to its board ... Investment platform Public names Prashant Yerramalli, former chief of staff for SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, vice president-operations and regulatory affairs ... CTIA hires Annissa Reed, the National Organization for Rare Disorders’ associate director-state policy, as director-state and local affairs ... FirstLight digital infrastructure services provider names Peter Zarrella, ex-Segra and Crown Castle, chief financial officer, succeeding Sean Socha, who assumes new leadership role focusing on financial planning and business analytics.
SES names Chief Technology Officer Ruy Pinto interim CEO until permanent successor is found for Steve Collar, departing as CEO at the end of June ... Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group hires Skydance Media’s Bill Damaschke, also former DreamWorks Animation, as president of its newly rebranded Warner Bros. Pictures Animation ... Francesca Tagliani, Rockwell Automation, and Nanna-Louise Wildfang Linde, Microsoft, are newly elected to DigitalEurope executive board as corporate members; Francesco Giuffre, Anitec-Assinform (Italy); Matti Mannonen, Technology Industries of Finland; Michel Combot, Numeum (France); and Sarah Baumchen, ZVEI (Germany), are newly elected as national trade association members ... Changes at DigitalBridge, digital infrastructure investor: Geoffrey Goldschein promoted to chief legal officer and company secretary; Francisco Sorrentino hired from SoftBank as chief people officer; Stephen Stryker tapped from Varde Partners as chief information officer to succeed Mark Serwinowski, retiring; and Justin Chang promoted to senior managing director-Asia Pacific ... Cybersecurity company Cyemptive Technologies names former Hitachi executive Ray McCay chief revenue officer ... CommerceHub hires former Dell and Citrix executive Richard Cortez as senior vice president-operations, newly created role.
Roku elects Jeff Blackburn, former Amazon senior vice president-global media and entertainment, to its board ... DocuSign adds Anna Marrs, American Express group president-global commercial services and credit and fraud risk, to its board ... E-commerce tech company Rokt names Srishti Gupta, ex-Amazon, chief product officer, and Flatiron Health’s Josh DeFrain chief information security officer; Rokt also promotes Craig Galvin to chief revenue officer ... Ad tech platform TripleLift adds Tony Wells, former Verizon senior vice president-marketing and chief media officer, and Adolfo Villagomez, former Home Depot chief marketing officer-U.S. retail, to its board ... Tint, social content and community platform, promotes Susan Frech to CRO.