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President Joe Biden nominates Xochitl Torres Small to become deputy agriculture secretary; as agriculture undersecretary for rural development, oversight currently includes Rural Utilities Service and its rural broadband programs ... Wilkinson Barker promotes to partner Amy Fliam, who focuses on the technology, energy, and communications sectors, and Brett Johnson, who represents companies including those in the cybersecurity and communications tech industries.

Viral Nation, social media technology and services company, promotes Rob Curcio to chief financial officer; new Viral Nation hires are Scott Leatherman, ex-Veritone, as chief marketing officer; Rodman Likes, ex-Salesforce, as head-SaaS revenue; and Joana Oliveira, ex-Key Data, as senior vice president-people and culture ... Abacode, managed cybersecurity and compliance provider, names Anil Markose, ex-Amazon Web Services, chief strategy officer.

Data protection company TrueFort taps BitSight’s Scott Schneider as chief revenue officer ... Identity theft protection company Idiq adds former NBA CMO Pam El to its board as its first independent director ... Cybercrimes analytics company SpyCloud promotes Ronak Patel to chief technology officer and Heather Smith to CMO; Patel replaces co-founder Alen Puzic, who moves to chief information officer.