Brightspeed promotes Chief Operating Officer Tom Maguire to CEO; current CEO Bob Mudge becomes executive chair; Manny Sampedro hired from Verizon to succeed Maguire as COO; all effective Nov. 1 ... Globalstar names Xcom Labs founder Paul Jacobs, also ex-Qualcomm, CEO, effective immediately, in conjunction with Globalstar’s agreement to license key Xcom technologies (see 2308290003); Jacobs replaces former CEO David Kagan, retiring; Xcom Chief Technology Officer Matt Grob and Chief Scientist Peter Black also join Globalstar, also effective immediately, as will Vice President-Wireless Tamer Kadous and Vice President-Engineering Daaman Hejmadi, effective after they complete a transition period with Xcom ... Yahoo promotes Connie Loizos to TechCrunch general manager and editor-in-chief, succeeding Matthew Panzarino, who remains an adviser ... Infoblox, cloud-enabled networking and security platform, names Palo Alto Networks’ Mukesh Gupta senior vice president-chief product officer ... Dollar Tree hires Diebold Nixdorf’s Jonathan Leiken as executive vice president-chief legal officer and corporate secretary ... Talkdesk names Cisco Security’s Neville Letzerich chief marketing officer ... Bragg Gaming Group names Chairman Matevz Mazij CEO, replacing Yaniv Sherman ... SAP names Siemens Energy’s Gina Vargiu-Breuer chief people officer-labor director and adds her to its executive board, effective Feb. 1, succeeding Sabine Bendiek, leaving SAP “by her own request,” effective Dec. 31 ... Media company Galaxy Racer North America hires Joyce Ajouri, ex-YouTube, as director-operations.