Effectv, Comcast Cable’s ad sales division, hires Snap’s Chris Vail as vice president-political sales, replacing Dan Sinagoga, moving to Effectv senior adviser-political sales ... Optical Internetworking Forum, optical networking industry’s interoperability consortium, elects Nathan Tracy, TE Connectivity, to its board and to serve as president; newly elected OIF officers are Karl Bois, Nvidia, technical committee chair; Tom Issenhuth, Huawei Technologies, market awareness and education committee co-chair; and Klaus-Holger Otto, Nokia, technical committee vice chair ... Yahoo taps Lyft’s Sona Iliffe-Moon, also former Facebook and Instagram, as chief communications officer ... Tech investment firm Bridge Growth Partners adds Next Tier Cybersecurity President Eric Friedberg and Patrick Ostiguy, founder of Accedian, a network performance monitoring company, as senior advisers ... Ballistic Ventures, venture capital firm for cybersecurity industry startups, adds former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis and Kiersten Todt, former chief of staff, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as federal advisers.