Box taps Olivia Nottebohm, ex-Notion, also former Dropbox and Google, as chief operating officer, succeeding Stephanie Carullo ... Wire 3, fiber optic internet provider in Florida, hires Clearwave Fiber’s Kayla Houde as vice president-government affairs ... F5, multicloud application services and security company, adds Tami Erwin, former Verizon Business executive vice president and CEO, to its board, expanding it to 12 members.
CBS Stations moves Aaron Inman and Susie Toma to vice presidents-local sales for, respectively, Western and Eastern states, and promotes Tim Bennett and Morgan Spatafore to vice presidents-agency partnerships and Theo Berenson to vice president-integrated marketing … Media company the Arena Group taps Katie Kulik from CBS as chief revenue officer ... PayPal hires EY’s Jamie Miller, also former Cargill and General Electric, as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Monday, succeeding acting CFO Gabrielle Rabinovitch; PayPal also moves Chief Information Officer Archie Deskus to executive vice president-chief technology officer, succeeding Sri Shivananda, departing company at the end of the year ... Social media company Qyou Media taps Raj Mishra, ex-Triller and ex-TikTok, as group CEO-India operations ... Space systems company Rocket Lab USA adds retired U.S. Space Force Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno to its board.
America’s Public Television Stations CEO Patrick Butler announces he’s retiring, staying through successor’s selection but no later than year-end 2024 (see 2311010050) … Information Technology Industry Council announces Julia Massimino, ex-SoundExchange and former congressional staff, as executive vice president-government affairs … Altiam Digital, security, automation and tech services provider appoints Wayne White, ex-ResultsCX and Avaya, as CEO.
Windstream taps Chairman Paul Sunu as president-CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Tony Thomas, departing from company and vacating his board seat ... BlackBerry announces John Chen will retire as executive chair-CEO, effective Saturday, and taps Richard Lynch, a BlackBerry board member since 2013, and former Verizon chief technology officer, to succeed Chen as board chair, also naming him interim CEO ... Inseego 5G edge cloud company appoints Steve Harmon, ex-Sierra Wireless, as chief revenue officer, newly created role ... Sidus Space promotes Lindsey Waitt to LizzieSat program manager in anticipation of Sidus’ LizzieSat constellation launch with SpaceX beginning in first quarter of 2024; Jamie Adams departs as Sidus chief technology officer and vacates his board seat; with Waitt and others assuming CTO duties, Sidus eliminates the CTO role.
Geospatial intelligence company Maxar Intelligence hires Riverbed Technology’s Dan Smoot, also former Salesforce, Cisco and VMWare, as CEO, effective Nov. 6; interim CEO Daniel Jablonsky moves to Maxar’s board with Smoot’s arrival ... SmartNews, global information and news discovery company, names co-founder Kaisei Hamamoto CEO, moves outgoing CEO Ken Suzuki to executive chair, both effective Wednesday, and hires Google's Cory Ondrejka, also ex-Meta, as chief technology officer.
BuzzFeed promotes Executive Vice President-Finance and Treasurer Matt Omer to chief financial officer, effective Nov. 6; current CFO Felicia DellaFortuna leaving BuzzFeed before the end of November ... Adobe adds Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon to its board, expanding it to 12 members.
Hill + Knowlton forms new Intelligence + Technology business unit under leadership of Chief Technology Officer Grant Toups, and names Allison Spray global head-Intel + Tech innovation, in addition to her continuing research and data intelligence role in the U.K., and Elliott Gauthier global head-Intel + Tech products and services, in addition to his continuing research and data intelligence role in Canada ... Charter Communications announces that Tom Rutledge will move to board member emeritus when his previously announced retirement as executive chairman takes effect Nov. 30; Charter board also appoints President-CEO Chris Winfrey to the seat that Rutledge will vacate, and names lead independent director Eric Zinterhofer nonexecutive chairman, both also effective Nov. 30.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chairman, promotes William Wu to committee staff director and Maria Mahler-Haug to deputy staff director ...Senate confirms Michael Whitaker as FAA administrator (see 2310250041) … Nintex intelligent process automation company, hires Sean Goldstein, ex-Lucid Software and Salesforce, as chief revenue officer, and adds Asana's Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh to board … Entravision adds CEO Michael Christenson and former Snap Chief People Officer Lara Sweet to its board; Juan Saldivar von Wuthenau resigns his board seat but remains Entravision’s chief digital, strategy and accountability officer ... Flexxon, hardware-based cybersecurity solutions company, adds former Intel and Microsoft executive Ravi Agarwal to its advisory board.
Nexstar promotes Steven Blanchard to vice president-general manager of its broadcasting and digital operations in Richmond, including WRIC-TV and wric.com, plus their related digital and social media channels ... Plume, SaaS platform for communications service providers, hires Palo Alto Networks’ Valerie Buckingham as chief marketing officer and Adrian Fitzgerald, ex-Sandvine and Oracle, as chief revenue officer ... Machine learning company SiMa.ai taps Amazon Web Services’ Elizabeth Samara-Rubio, also former Accenture, as chief business officer ... Media analytics firm Toluna promotes Dixit Chanana to managing director of the India offices of Toluna and MetrixLab, the market research company that Toluna acquired in June; Ravi Radhakrishnan departs as MetrixLab India managing director.
Altice’s Optimum appoints Jennifer Garrett, from Charter Communications, as chief marketing officer … Alphawave Semi, high-speed connectivity chipmaker, hires Rahul Mathur, Avantus, as chief financial officer, effective Oct. 30 ... ZenCase, legal software solutions developer, taps Olivia Mockel, ex-PCLaw | Time Matters, as president-chief operating officer.