Senate confirms former National Security Agency Executive Director Harry Coker as national cyber director on 59-40 Tuesday vote (see 2307250067) ... Pillsbury promotes Jessica Nyman to partner, communications …. Caveonix, platform for hybrid multicloud governance, compliance and security management, appoints Zscaler’s Aloysius Boyle CEO, succeeding Kaus Phaltankar, who transitions to chief strategy officer-board chairman … The Arena Group tech platform and media company terminates the employment of CEO Ross Levinsohn, and names majority owner Manoj Bhargava interim CEO; Levinsohn's termination follows last week's firing of Chief Operating Officer Andrew Kraft, Media President Rob Barrett and corporate counsel Julie Fenster.
Ayar Labs, silicon photonics company for “chip-to-chip connectivity,” names co-founder and CTO Mark Wade its next CEO, succeeding Charles Wuischpard, serving in an advisory capacity before transitioning out of the company in mid-January ... Cybersecurity company Resillion, formerly Eurofins Digital Testing, names Qualitest co-founder Yaron Kottler executive chairman; previous Resillion CEO Dik Vos takes a board seat as a nonexecutive director SportsGrid, free ad-supported sports streaming network, adds Clarion Events North America CEO Greg Topalian to its board.
Incompas announces board, including newly elected Kurt Van Wagenen, CEO of Summit Broadband, as vice chair and members for small companies, Garner Duncan, Ezee Fiber vice president-government/education and wholesale, and Edward Hilliary, Hilliary Communications managing partner; for medium companies, Greg Rogers, Bandwidth head-global policy and regulatory affairs, and Jeff Garte, Boldyn Networks, president-Northeast business; and for large companies, Sean Sullivan, MetTel vice president, and Gillian Leytham, vice president-underlying rights and government relations … IBM elects Marianne Brown, former Fidelity National Information Services COO, to its board.