Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) names John Scott, former Texas deputy attorney general-civil litigation, interim Texas AG, as suspended AG Ken Paxton (R) awaits his state Senate impeachment trial ... Cybersecurity services company Conversant Group taps HBR Consulting’s Josh Nardo as vice president-advisory services ... PR firm S+C Communications names former NBA executive Kim Mandara executive vice president-communications and business development, and managing director of its newly opened New York office ... AlertEnterprise, provider of AI-powered workforce management solutions, adds former SAP and Google Cloud executive Greg Tomb to its board ... Incident response platform Cado Security names Holly Shea Cappello, ex-Carbon Black, senior vice president-global sales ... ID.me, digital identity and credentials network, names Mike Durso, ex-VMware, chief revenue officer and Marcus Hearne, ex-IBM, chief marketing officer ... Targeted Victory’s Nathan Leamer, ex-FCC, launches Fixed Gear Strategies, focusing on the intersection of tech and policy.