EchoStar President-CEO Hamid Akhavan will fill those roles in the combined Dish Network and EchoStar company when the acquisition closes by year-end; Charlie Ergen, current chairman of both Dish and EchoStar, will become executive chairman; Dish Wireless President-Chief Operating Officer John Swieringa will become president-technology and COO; and Dish President-CEO Erik Carlson will continue in those roles until he departs the business at the closing of the transaction ... National CineMedia, newly emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, taps Lauren Zalaznick, former Comcast NBCUniversal executive vice president-chair, entertainment and digital networks, as board chair; other new National CineMedia board members: Bernadette Aulestia, former HBO president-global distribution; Nicholas Bell, current Fanatics Live CEO and former head-product, Google Search Experience; former Standard General partner David Glazek; Juliana Hill, former iHeartMedia senior vice president-liquidity and asset management; current Blantyre Capital partner Tiago Lourenco; Jean-Philippe Maheu, former Twitter global vice president-client solutions and advertising sales; and Attention Capital CEO Joe Marchese, former Fox Networks Group president-advertising revenue.

Former FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright leaves post as George Mason University Law School professor to become founding partner of Lodestar Law and Economics … Hewlett Packard Enterprise says Tarek Robbiati will depart as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Aug. 25, to become CEO of RingCentral, where he has been a board member since December; Jeremy Cox, HPE senior vice president-corporate controller and chief tax officer, becomes interim CFO during search for Robbiati’s permanent replacement; current RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis will become executive chairman; RingCentral President-Chief Operating Officer Mo Katibeh will depart, but advises through transition ... Emerson promotes Nick Piazza to chief people officer, succeeding Elizabeth Adefioye, departed ... Cohesity, data security company, names Informatica’s Eric Brown CFO and former Google Cloud Vice President-Engineering Srinivasan Murari chief development officer.

FTI Consulting names Michael Driscoll, former FBI assistant director-New York, senior managing director-cybersecurity … Sisense, analytics tools company, hires Gloat’s Ayala Michelson as chief products and technology officer, and general manager-Israeli operation ... ConnexPay, end-to-end payments platform, names PayPal’s George Hansen chief revenue officer ... Valor Capital Group, growth equity firm focused on U.S., Brazilian and Latin American tech markets, adds SoftBank’s Paulo Passoni as a managing partner ... Sierra Space promotes Jen Splaingard to senior vice president-engineering and test ... Anyline, mobile data capture and data insights company, taps AT&S CFO Petra Preining as its first chairperson ... Boomi, intelligent connectivity platform, names Sean Wechter, ex-Benefitfocus, chief information officer ... Hallmark Media says President-CEO Wonya Lucas will leave at year’s end … Synopsys adds Trimble CEO Rob Painter to its board … Former Sierra Wireless CEO Philip Brace joins Lantronix board.