LiveOak Fiber promotes Chief Technology Officer Shane Schilling to chief operating officer ... Tillman Fiber hires J.P. Morgan’s Philip Cusick as chief financial officer ... New hires at VideoAmp, media measurement company: Amy Madden, ex-PwC, as senior vice president-revenue and growth; Jeff Schmidt, ex-Nielsen, as senior vice president-advertisers; and Conor Burgess, ex-Acxiom, as vice president-agency partnerships ... Razorfish, marketing transformation agency, hires former Publicis Commerce Managing Director David MacDonald as leader of its retail and commerce experience practice ... Similarweb, data intelligence platform, taps NielsenIQ’s Susan Dunn as chief revenue officer ... PR agency Treble forms AI practice group and names Vice President Will Kruisbrink to lead it ... Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs announces Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, former assistant director-space policy at the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, as senior fellow …Eutelsat Group announces OneWeb Technologies (OWT) President-CEO Kevin Steen becomes also president-CEO Eutelsat America Corp. (EAC); OWT and EAC combined earlier this year.
E.W. Scripps hires LG Electronics’ Seth Walters as head-connected TV sales ... Mega Broadband Investments promotes President-Chief Operating Officer Andy Parrott to CEO, effective Wednesday; current CEO Phil Spencer moves to senior adviser role ... Wow, broadband services provider, adds former Terremark Chief Financial Officer Jose Segrera to its board, effective May 17, filling seat vacated by resignation of Tom McMillin ... Marvell Technology adds KLA President-CEO Rick Wallace and Daniel Durn, Adobe CFO and executive vice president-finance, technology services and operations, to its board ... MGID, global advertising platform, adds Meta’s Guillaume Cribier as head-global publisher success ... Aptiv adds Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft corporate vice president-security, compliance, identity and privacy, to its board ... Bitsight, cyber risk management platform, hires Nile's Lou Serlenga, ex-Tenable and former Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as chief revenue officer and Ernst & Young’s Rob Dinning as chief legal officer.
FCC announces staff changes: Office of Internal Affairs’ Nese Guendelsberger becomes acting legal adviser-wireless to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, succeeding Shiva Goel (see 2404250030 and 2404240059); Marco Peraza, wireline adviser to Commissioner Nathan Simington, leaves to become attorney adviser to FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson; and Darryl Cooper of the Disability Rights Office and Pamela Smith of the Office of General Counsel, retiring … Shutts & Bowen hires Patricia Flanagan, ex-Fox Rothschild, as partner-trademark and copyright … First Orion promotes former Samsung executive Joe Stinziano to president-CEO, effective May 1, succeeding Charles Morgan, who continues as chairman … DZS, broadband networking and AI-driven cloud software provider, appoints ADVA’s Scott St. John as chief customer officer … Aqua Security cloud native security company taps Mike Dube, ex-CrowdStrike, as chief revenue officer ... LoanDepot hires Jeff Wilkish, ex-Movement Mortgage, as regional vice president-New England ... IonQ, quantum computing company, names President-CEO Peter Chapman chairman and former Broadcom Chief Financial Officer Harry You lead independent director, both effective with the close of IonQ’s June 5 annual meeting.
Amagi, supplier of cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, hires Richard Perkett, ex-Rapid7, as chief product officer ... TMB, parent company of Reader’s Digest, taps Vox Media’s Marty Moe, also former AOL, as president to oversee TMB's web, social and streaming businesses ... Breach Secure Now, cybersecurity training and solutions company, adds Dan Cucchi, ex-ConnectWise, as vice president-sales ... Software company Appian taps Vincent Bertaud, ex-8x8, as senior partner sales manager-Appian France ... Digital Realty, provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, collocation and interconnection solutions, adds Susan Swanezy, recently retired Hodes Weill & Associates partner, to its board ... Lambda, GPU for AI platform, hires Peter Seibold, ex-SparkCognition, as chief financial officer.
TWN Communications, supplier of commercial and residential broadband services to rural electric cooperatives, taps former FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein as executive vice president-chief strategy and external affairs officer ... NCTA hires NTIA’s Russ Hanser as deputy chief legal officer ... Incompas adds DC Blox CEO Jeff Uphues to its board ... Silicon Labs taps board member Bob Conrad, also a former Texas Instruments and Analog Devices executive, as senior vice president-worldwide operations; Sandeep Kumar, who currently leads global operations, will depart Silicon Labs in 2024's second half ... New IAB hires: Cintia Gabilan, ex-Amazon and Meta, as vice president-IAB Media Center; Arlene Mu, ex-Lowe's, as assistant general counsel; and Nadine Karp McHugh, ex-Goldman Sachs, as new IAB executive in residence ... Ivanti, IT and security company, adds Proofpoint’s Alex Lei, also former Dell Technologies, as senior vice president-sales, Asia Pacific and Japan ... Streaming media company FreeCast rehires Chris Savine, ex-Netscape and AOL Time Warner, as chief operations officer and head-finance; he previously was FreeCast’s chief financial officer from 2014 to 2020 ... Involta, provider of data center and cloud infrastructure and services, hires Everstream Solutions' Dereck Wischmeyer as general counsel.
Ziff Davis hires Gannett’s Kate Gutman, also former A+E, as executive vice president-general manager of its tech media group ... Penn Entertainment adds Aaron LaBerge, former Disney Entertainment and ESPN president-chief technology officer, as CTO, effective July 1 ... Washington Technology Industry Association promotes Kelly Fukai to chief operating officer ... Consilio, legal tech solutions provider, taps John Hale, ex-Kelly Services, also former Microsoft, as chief marketing officer ... 9fin, news and analytics platform for debt capital markets, promotes Will Caiger-Smith to vice president-content, newly created role ... VNET Group, internet data center services provider in China, announces resignation of CEO Jeff Dong for personal reasons, and names Josh Sheng Chen, VNET founder and co-chair, as his interim replacement.
Symphony Wireless hires Bernard Borghei, ex-Tower Engineering Professionals, as CEO ... Family entertainment company WildBrain adds Norton Rose’s Mark Trachuk, also former Entertainment One, as general counsel and as corporate secretary to WildBrain’s board, succeeding James Bishop, departed ... DoorDash adds former Amazon executive Jeffrey Blackburn to its board, effective May 8; Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters won’t stand for reelection to DoorDash board when his term expires at June’s annual meeting ... The Arena Group promotes Sara Silverstein to CEO; former CEO Cavitt Randall remains chairman ... Contrast Security, application security vendor, hires Shay Mowlem, ex-NinjaOne, as chief marketing officer.
Silicon Labs hires Radhika Chennakeshavula, ex-Western Digital, as chief information officer, effective Wednesday ... Zayo Group, network infrastructure provider, taps former Vodafone executive Colman Deegan as CEO-Zayo Europe .... Revolve Technologies, telecom procurements company, hires former 8x8 and RingCentral executive Michael Keeler as president ... Cybersecurity company Forescout Technologies adds Clarissa Horowitz, ex-Seraphic Security, as chief marketing officer and Craig Weimer, ex-Veracode, as vice president-sales, Americas ... Rocket Lab, end-to-end space communications company, announces that Sven Strohband, managing director at venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, and Rocket Lab board member since 2013, won’t stand for reelection at June 12 annual meeting ... SheerID, identity verification company, promotes Dave Miller to chief financial officer ... U.S. Agency for Global Media names Freedom House President Michael Abramowitz to succeed VOA acting Director John Lippman this summer.
MediaCo acquires all of Estrella Media’s network, content, digital and commercial operations, and taps New Majority Ready’s Jacqueline Hernandez, also former Telemundo chief operating officer and ex-NBCUniversal Hispanic Enterprises chief marketing officer, as interim CEO of the combined assets ... InfoVision, IT services company, adds Live Earth Chairperson Radhika Venkatraman, also former 20-year Verizon veteran, to its advisory board ... Mitel hires Bill Dunnion, ex-Calian Group, as chief information security officer ... Whalar Group, creator ecosystem company, names co-founders Neil Waller and James Street co-CEOs, effective immediately, and hires Edelman’s Christoph Becker as its first chief creative officer; current CEO Rob Horler to relinquish his role, returning to Whalar board, effective May 1 ... MainStreaming, media delivery platform, hires ex-Joyn CEO-Chief Technology Officer Tassilo Raesig, also former Sony Europe head-digital and media strategy, as chief operating officer ... National Retail Federation promotes David French to executive vice president-government relations.
Digicel Group hires Tigo’s Leopoldo Gutierrez as chief financial officer, effective May 1 ... SurveyMonkey promotes Priya Gill to global head-marketing ... Washington Technology Industry Association elevates Vice Chair Kristen Forecki to chair, succeeding Dave Cotter, remaining on the board as chair emeritus; Forecki is Microsoft’s senior director-experiences and devices strategy ... Wolters Kluwer appoints Atul Dubey as general manager of its finance, risk and regulatory reporting business, and names Suzanne Konstance to succeed Dubey as general manager-Wolters Kluwer Legal and Regulatory U.S., both effective May 1.