President Joe Biden picks Clare Martorana for federal chief information officer and administrator, OMB Office of Electronic Government; she most recently was chief information officer, Office of Personnel Management ... Comcast Advertising hires Pooja Midha from true[X], also former ABC Television Network, as chief growth officer ... Univision appoints Beatriz Pedrosa-Guanche, ex-Apple, as senior vice president-corporate communications; Chief Communications Officer Rosemary Mercedes resigning.
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BAI Communications hires Andrew McGrath, ex-Vodafone Carrier Services, as global chief commercial officer ... IHeartMedia promotes Kristy Beebe to market president-Indianapolis ... Exact Payments hires Ravi Rajamiyer from PayPal as chief technology officer ... Emerson appoints its first chief sustainability officer, Mike Train, who steps down as president; promotes Lisa Flavin to senior vice president-chief compliance officer and adds her to Office of the Chief Executive; and names company CEO Lal Karsanbhai president ... DataRobot promotes Dan Wright to CEO, succeeding co-founder Jeremy Achin.
Armorblox executive appointments include its first chief security officer, Brian Johnson, ex-Crucyble; Chief Technology Officer Rob Fry, ex-Netflix; Senior Vice President-Global Sales Jason Stutt, ex-Duo Security; Vice President-Pipeline Andrew McGuire, also ex-Duo; Vice President-Solutions Engineering Bryan O’Neil, who helped with Duo’s acquisition by Cisco in 2018; and Vice President-Legal Mandy Legal, also ex-Duo.
SpotHero hires Varvara Alva from BenchPrep as chief financial officer and promotes Eric Brooke to chief technology officer to replace co-founder Larry Kiss, who moves to chief architect officer; Matt DiBari advances to chief product officer ... Talkdesk promotes Tony Barbone to chief revenue officer, Kieran King to chief customer officer, and Marco Costa to international chief operating officer ... Senators confirm by 70-30 vote Merrick Garland as attorney general.
NARUC President Paul Kjellander appoints California Public Utilities Commission President Marybel Batjer, recently reappointed to a full CPUC term (see this section, Jan. 5 publication), to the association's board as at-large member, replacing Vermont Public Utility Commissioner Sarah Hofmann, retiring ... TechNet adds Kent Walker, Google senior vice president-global affairs and chief legal officer, to its executive council.
NTCA says its Regulatory Counsel Tamber Ray named co-chair of the new Small and Midsize Businesses Working Group of the Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force, a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and industry; CISA representative emails that task force working group "co-chairs are still being identified across all working groups and will be announced once finalized."
Iridium elects Maxar Technologies Executive Vice President-Global Field Operations Tony Frazier to its board ... Macom adds John Ritchie, chief financial officer at A Cloud Guru, to the board ... Element Analytics adds Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft corporate vice president-security, compliance and identity marketing, to its board.