Foreign Policy Research Institute elects Aaron Stein, former chief content officer at War on the Rocks and Metamorphic Media, as its next president, his term beginning April 15 ... Metronet taps Craig Cowden, ex-Charter Communications and Bright House Networks, as executive vice president-chief technology and product officer, and Brad Freathy, ex-Verizon Business Group and Charter, as senior vice president-commercial and carrier sales ... WarnerBros. Discovery reduces board size to 11 following resignations of Steven Miron and Steven Newhouse as members … GCT Semiconductor, supplier of 5G and 4G semiconductor solutions, adds Synaptics Chair Nelson Chan to its board ... Twilio adds Andy Stafman, a partner at Sachem Head Capital Management, to its board, expanding it to 10 members.

PlanetLabs announces Kevin Weil, president-product and business, departing, effective May 6, and appoints Ashley Johnson as president in addition to her current roles as chief financial officer … Gannett nominates former Warner Bros. Discovery adviser Maha Al-Emam, also ex-Apple, NBCUniversal Media and Bloomberg, for election to its board at June 3 annual meeting ... Yelp adds Roku Chief Financial Officer Dan Jedda to its board; former Twilio Chief Operating Officer George Hu leaving his Yelp board seat after five years ... PayPal plans to appoint Carmine Di Sibio, retiring EY global chairman-CEO, to its board as an independent director, effective July 1; former Airbnb COO Belinda Johnson to retire from PayPal board, effective with annual meeting in May.

Scott Harris, former NTIA director-national spectrum strategy (see 240321003), opening Crest Hill Advisors, with specialties including tech and telecom … E2’s Uchenna Bright and Denise Sheehan, from the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium, confirmed as commissioners of state Public Service Commission … Nokia announces Chief People Officer Amy Hanlon-Rodemich, leaving company but retaining an advisory role; Lorna Gibb, vice president-labor and employment, becoming interim CPO during search ... Sierra Space, commercial space tech company, hires Amish Patel, ex-Rocket Lab, also former SpaceX, as chief operating officer.

Sinclair promotes David Gibber to executive vice president-chief legal officer ... News Literacy Project elects KVOX Media founder Karen Wickre as board chair and Recode co-founder Walt Mossberg vice chair to terms beginning Sept. 15 … AVPro Global elevates Mike Detmer, its consultant since 2023, to chief operating officer ... Fortune Media hires Needham Partners’ Jen Magee as general manager, Fortune Live Media unit, newly created role ... Security company Netography adds former RSA Security President-CEO Art Coviello to its board.

Samuel Towell, former Smithfield Foods associate general counsel, is sworn in as a commissioner of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, filling an unexpired term ending Jan. 31, 2028 … Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) nominates Jerry Fenn, ex-CenturyLink, as a member of the Utah Public Service Commission, subject to Utah Senate approval … Energous, developer of RF-based wireless power networks, announces that Cesar Johnston is no longer president-CEO, but he remains a board member; board establishes office of the chair composed of Chair Reynette Au and Chief Financial Officer Mallorie Burak, who has been named interim principal executive officer while the board seeks a permanent successor to Johnston.

FCC announces Precision Agriculture Connectivity Task Force working group members, including Mapping and Analyzing Connectivity on Agricultural Lands Working Group Chair Joseph Carey, special government employee, and Vice Chair Brad Robison, CEO-Tallahatchie Valley Electric Power Association and Tallahatchie Valley Internet Services; Examining Current and Future Connectivity Demand for Precision Agriculture Working Group Chair Joy Sterling, CEO-Iron Horse Vineyards, and Vice Chair Steven Strickland, director-partnerships and channels at Ericsson; and Encouraging Adoption of Precision Agriculture and Availability of High-Quality Jobs on Connected Farms Working Group Chair Joshua Seidemann, vice president-policy, NTCA, and Vice Chair Alex Thomasson, professor-Mississippi State University Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Accelerating Broadband Deployment on Unserved Agricultural Lands Working Group Chair Heather Hampton-Knodle, vice president/secretary-Knodle Ltd. Farms, and Vice Chair Jarrett Taubman, vice president/deputy chief government affairs and regulatory officer-Viasat.

Comtech hires Jeff Robertson, ex-Intrado Life Safety, as president-terrestrial and wireless networks business segment ... Tencent Music Entertainment Group announces resignation of Zhenyu Xie as president and chief technology officer, and names Chief Financial Officer Shirley Hu to replace him on Tencent’s board, both effective March 31; Xie will remain a Tencent consultant ... Secureworks adds former General Electric executive William Cary to its board ... Contentsquare names Gabriel Benavides, ex-Medallia, global chief revenue officer ... PA Media Group promotes Emily Shelley to CEO, replacing Clive Marshall, retiring ... Abnormal Security, AI-native cloud email security company, taps Okta’s Smita Sanadhya, also former HP and Microsoft, as chief financial officer, and Jeff True, ex-Zoom, as chief legal officer.

Scott Harris announces his departure from NTIA as senior spectrum adviser and director-national spectrum strategy (see 2403210031) … NAB hires Gabriela Sibori, ex-Department of Health and Human Services, as senior director-communications … Arkose Labs, bot management and account security company, names Patrick Kehoe, ex-Coalfire, chief marketing officer ... Nozomi Networks, IoT security company, hires Kevin Isaac, ex-Forcepoint, Symantec and Sophos, as chief revenue officer ... Rockwell Automation taps McKesson’s Stephen Ford, also former HP, as vice president-chief information security officer ... The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration adds Kristin Houston, Aerojet Rocketdyne president-space propulsion and power systems, and Jim Kalberer, Northrop Grumman vice president-propulsion systems, to board.

ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development announces new commissioners, including FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel; Abel Avellan, CEO-AST SpaceMobile; Mark Dankberg, CEO-Viasat; Shameel Joosub, CEO-Vodacom; Isabelle Mauro, director general-Global Satellite Operator’s Association; and Deemah AlYahya, secretary general-Digital Cooperation Organization... Phillips Lytle names partner Richard Marinaccio to lead law firm’s newly launched AI practice team ... Brown Gibbons Lang investment bank and financial advisory firm adds Stifel’s Jason Myler as a managing director within its tech team.

NARUC appoints Commissioner Maida Coleman, of the Missouri Public Service Commission, as new chair of its Select Committee on Regulatory and Industry Diversity, succeeding Virginia State Corp. Commission Judge Jehmal Hudson, who now chairs the NARUC Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment ... Nielsen taps Byju's Group’s Anil Goel, also former Amazon, as chief engineering officer ... Panasas, data solutions provider for high-performance computing and AI, hires Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Paul Hiemstra as chief financial officer ... Futurum Group’s Cybersphere cybersecurity practice forms new chief information security officer advisory board, naming as inaugural members: Marene Allison, retired CISO, Johnson & Johnson; Gary Hayslip, CISO, SoftBank Investment Advisors and SoftBank Group; Stacy Mill, CEO, Pivot Tech Solutions; Jonathan Nguyen-Duy, field CISO, Intel; Holly Ridgeway, executive vice president-chief security officer, Citizens Bank; and Matthew Rosenquist, CISO, Mercury Risk ...