Smokeball, legal case management software platform, taps Chelsey Lambert from Chicago Bar Association as vice president-partnerships ... Newly hired as senior operating partners at Francisco Partners, global investment firm specializing in tech businesses: Paul Cormier, chairman of Red Hat, who continues in that role; Matt Dircks, former BeyondTrust CEO; Joe Kim, former Citrix chief product and technical officer; and Ford Tamer, ex-Inphi president-CEO ... Bain & Co. names JLL’s Lewis Woodward executive vice president, responsible for leadership of its worldwide external relations, newly created role ... Xerox promotes Fred Beljaars to executive vice president-chief delivery and supply chain officer, filling role vacated with departure of Mary McHugh ... Activision Blizzard adds board member Lulu Cheng Meservey, ex-Substack, as executive vice president-corporate affairs and chief communications officer, new role … Deeper Edge founder Richard Whitt, ex-Google, joins Twilio as senior vice president-government relations and public policy … Diraq quantum processor manufacturer appoints Airstream Venture Partners’ William Jeffrey, ex-SRI International, as a nonexecutive director and chairman, effective immediately.