Utah Public Service Chair Thad LeVar retires … Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) announces retirement of Chief Information Officer Ed Toner, effective Feb. 16, with IT Administrator Mark Neemann to become interim CIO during search … Under succession plan, Info-Tech Research Group promotes Chief Product Officer Tom Zehren to CEO, effective Feb. 2, when current CEO David Godfrey moves to chief growth officer, newly created role.

Apple nominates former Aerospace Corp. President-CEO Wanda Austin for election to its board at Feb. 27 annual meeting; former Vice President Al Gore and James Bell, former Boeing chief financial officer and corporate president, to retire from the board this year under longstanding Apple policy that generally bars board members from running for reelection after they turn 75 ... Blackbaud software provider appoints Kristian Talvitie, PTC chief financial officer, to its board.