Ted Hearn leaves ACA Connects as communications vice president, with his LinkedIn saying he’s publishing Policy Band … 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 ... 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.

Nexstar promotes Tracey Rogers to senior vice president and regional manager-broadcasting division … Infoblox, cloud-enabled networking and security platform, names Palo Alto Networks’ Mukesh Gupta senior vice president-chief product officer ... Yahoo promotes Connie Loizos to TechCrunch general manager and editor-in-chief, succeeding Matthew Panzarino, who remains an adviser ... 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.