Disney board elects Nike Executive Chairman Mark Parker, a Disney director since 2016, as its next chairman, effective after next annual meeting; Parker will succeed Susan Arnold, who won't seek reelection under the 15-year term limit in Disney’s board tenure policy, reducing the size of the board to 11 members ... Web3 startup Virtualness adds Meta’s Joyee Biswas, also former ESPN, as a “founding team member,” heading sports and media partnerships ... Marvell Technology promotes Chief Accounting Officer-Treasurer Willem Meintjes to chief financial officer, effective with Jan. 20 resignation of current CFO Jean Hu; Advanced Micro Devices names Hu executive vice president-CFO, effective Jan. 23, and says CFO-Treasurer Devinder Kumar is retiring, but remaining at AMD through April ... Blockchain Capital advances Kinjal Shah to general partner ... Mastercard promotes Devin Corr to executive vice president-investor relations, effective May 1, to succeed retiring Warren Kneeshaw ... Ipsos elevates Nick Mercurio to chief client officer-North America.

Mayer Brown names partner Howard Waltzman, who focuses on communications and technology law and privacy compliance, a co-leader of its Public Policy, Regulatory and Government Affairs practice … DLA Piper names Ben MacWilliams, ex-SpaceX, principal-Telecoms Practice … Steptoe expands commercial litigation department with three new partners with FTC experience: Eric Berman, Dan Blynn and Steve Freeman, all from Venable … EchoStar names Jeffrey Boggs, from subsidiary Hughes Network Systems, interim principal accounting officer, after termination of Muhammad Ali Butt as senior vice president-chief accounting officer ... Gaming company Xset promotes Operations Manager Jacob Arce to head-e-sports ... SymphonyAI names Narvar’s Paul Luongo, also ex-Fastly, chief legal officer ... Fiber Broadband Association elects officers and board members, including Joseph Jones, On Trac, as chair; Kimberly McKinley, Utopia, as secretary; and Ariane Schaffer, Google Fiber, as member; Gregg Logan, from C Spire’s parent company Telapex, fills the remainder of C Spire’s vacant board seat term, ending Dec. 31.