Milbank announces John Beahn, ex-Shearman & Sterling, as partner with a focus on matters related to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ... Charter Communications promotes Justin Colwell to executive vice president-connectivity technology ...
ACA Connects announces CEO Matt Polka stepping down in July ... Benton Institute for Broadband & Society appoints Revati Prasad, ex-Institute for Local Self-Reliance, director-research and fellowships… NAB announces Alex Siciliano, ex-The Petrizzo Group, as senior communications strategist, new position … IHeartMedia hires Sarah van Mosel from SiriusXM's Stitcher as executive vice president-iHeart Audience Network ... Boingo Wireless taps Tanya Lynch from Mouser Electronics as vice president-human resources ... Chinese social e-commerce platform Yunji promotes Peng Zhang to vice president-finance to replace Chengqi Zhang, resigning for personal reasons, both effective Friday.
Nexstar Media Group hires AT&T’s Rachel Morgan as executive vice president-general counsel, effective June 20, assuming the general counsel’s position from Elizabeth Ryder, who remains secretary to Nexstar’s board ... AST SpaceMobile, space-based cellular broadband network, taps Sean Wallace from Cogent Communications as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective May 10 ... Data enablement platform LiveRamp promotes Vihan Sharma to executive vice president-global revenue, newly created role, effective May 2.
FTC Chair Lina Khan announces Anisha Dasgupta, ex-Office of the New York State Attorney General, as general counsel, and Elizabeth Wilkins, ex-White House, as director-policy planning … RapidSOS emergency response data platform hires former FirstNet CEO Edward Parkinson as president-public sector … Twilio hires Autodesk’s Reeny Sondhi as its first chief digital officer and HP’s Amy Holcroft as its first chief privacy officer ... Blockchain company Fundamental Labs adds Facebook’s Vinayak Rao as principal-GameFi lead ... Cyberscurity company Lumu taps Jeffrey Wheat from Blue Team Alpha as field chief technology officer ... Public Knowledge elects Marcus Reese, principal-LC Public Affairs; Vickie Robinson, general manager-Microsoft’s Global Airband Initiative; and Gary Slaiman, founder of Slaiman Consulting, to board.
FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks announces staff changes: Media Legal Adviser Austin Bonner becoming acting chief of staff, as Chief of Staff and Senior Legal Adviser William Davenport leaves agency end of month; Associate Division Chief-Wireless Competition Bureau Georgios Leris moving to acting legal adviser-wireless and international through commission’s May open meeting when Harris Wiltshire's Shiva Goel joins as permanent legal adviser-wireless and international (see 2204270036) … Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo appoints Richard DalBello, from Virgin Atlantic, director-NOAA Office of Space Commerce.
FirstNet Authority announces CEO Edward Parkinson leaving the organization for the private sector; Deputy CEO Lisa Casias becomes acting CEO, effective May 10, during search for new CEO … DOD names Craig Martell, from Lyft, as first chief digital and artificial intelligence officer … Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition's Chief Operating Officer-Chief of Staff Emily Olson departing to become an NTIA broadband program specialist, beginning May 23 … Platinum Advisors says Daniel Sepulveda, ex-Wiley and former ambassador-telecommunications and media issues in Obama administration, is joining government relations team.
VoIP.ms, a platform delivering voice and text services, promotes David Rouleau to CEO, succeeding acting CEO Khan Chau, who continues as president and board member … Qualcomm promotes Jim Cathey to chief commercial officer-Qualcomm Technologies, and adds him to its executive committee ... SMPTE hires David Grindle from U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology as its next executive director, effective in July, succeeding Barbara Lange, who stepped down Dec. 31 ... ... Sony Music Publishing promotes Nick Bral to vice president-creative ... Vecima Networks taps CommScope’s Bill Lee as vice president-global professional services ... Callisto Media taps Patrick Yee from Rebel Ventures as chief marketing officer.
Sidus Space, a space-as-a-service satellite company, says John Curry, ex-NASA and Blue Origin, was appointed chief mission operations officer … Online learning network Noodle hires OppFi’s Catie Starr as chief marketing officer ... LendingPoint, financing platform for e-commerce merchants, taps Liberty Lending’s Ryan Scully, also ex-Discover, as CMO ... Digital assets platform Bakkt adds De’Ana Dow, Capitol Counsel partner-general counsel, and Jill Simeone, Etsy chief legal officer-corporate secretary, to its board, expanding it to 10 members ... My Telescope, Swedish audience measurement startup, adds Steve Farella, from MDC Media Partners, to its board.
Threat detection platform SOC Prime taps former AT&T cybersecurity executive James Carrigan as vice president-worldwide sales ... AppLovin adds Amazon’s Christina Seafort as chief people officer ... Video Advertising Bureau hires TVSquared’s Benjamin Vandegrift as vice president-measurement solutions, newly created position ... Media technology company Digital Joy taps former WWE executive Tracey Arrowood-Shaw as president ... Digi-Key Electronics appoints Kashu Suzuki, ex-Algolia, as regional business development manager-Japan ... Activision Blizzard elects Substack Vice President-Communications Lulu Cheng Meservey to its board and nominates Bacardi executive Kerry Carr, also ex-Disney, for election as a director at its 2022 annual meeting; current board members Hendrik Hartong and Casey Wasserman chose not to seek re-election.
Frontier hires Vodafone’s Vishal Dixit as chief strategy officer ... Hearst Television’s Jessica Mathies moves to Hearst Media Production Group as vice president-development … Chipmaker Semtech hires Intel’s Julie McGee as senior vice president-chief marketing officer ... Accenture promotes Paolo Dal Cin to global head-Accenture Security, and adds him to its global management committee, effective May 1 ... CTIA names Consumer Cellular CEO Ed Evans to board, as company becomes association member … Marvell adds Experian Chief Information Security Officer Sara Andrews to its board, and says incumbent director Bethany Mayer won’t seek reelection at its June 23 annual meeting.