Public Knowledge hires Stephen Bennett, ex-Institute for Palestine Studies-USA, as director-development and external affairs; Alisa Valentin, ex-National Urban League and ex-FCC, as broadband policy director; Nat Purser, former Center for Economic and Policy Research, as government affairs policy advocate; and Georgetown Law Communications and Technology Law Clinic’s Lauren Harriman as fellow … Free State Foundation announces former FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly as adjunct senior fellow, launching video podcast, “TMT With Mike O’Rielly” … Ericsson promotes Niklas Heuveldop to head-business area global communications platform and CEO-Vonage and Yossi Cohen to senior vice president-head, market area North America, both effective Feb. 1; Heuveldop succeeds Rory Read, stepping down Feb. 1 and leaving end of Q1 … Protiviti Consulting elevates 36 staffers including for technology: Nick Britton, Pierce Chakraborty, Andre Cilurzo, James Eick, Joseph Emerson, Chris Hanson, Joe Marcum and Hirun Tantirigama as managing directors and Willy Alvarado as senior director … Verrill names Keefe Clemons, ex-Verizon, partner-energy, telecommunications and natural resources group.

Incompas promotes Lindsay Stern to attorney-policy manager … Victory Holdings’ Melissa Patton joins Space Foundation as vice president-education … Troomi Wireless, provider of safe smartphone tech for children, adds Jean Twenge, San Diego State University psychology professor, to its advisory board … Hewlett Packard Enterprise promotes Kristin Major to executive vice president-chief people officer, succeeding Alan May, remaining with HPE to support planned acquisition of Jupiter Networks, and expands role for Neil MacDonald, leading high-performance computing and AI business segment in addition to continuing to lead its compute business, both effective Feb. 1; HPE also announces that Hewlett Packard Labs will now report to Fidelma Russo, HPE’s chief technology officer ... Sidus Space adds former Goldman Sachs executive Richard Berman to its board ... Push-to-talk provider Digi-Talk Plus hires JVCKenwood’s David Weber as business development manager ... Fortune Media taps Diane Brady, ex-Forbes, as executive director-Fortune Live Media and editorial director-Fortune CEO Initiative, effective Monday.