Disney promotes Debra OConnell to president of newly formed News Group and Networks, Disney Entertainment, combining ABC News, ABC Owned Television Stations and Networks Business Operations ... Nexstar Media Group hires former Katz Media Group executive Stacey Schulman as executive vice president-platform marketing and intelligence, newly created position ... Vislink Technologies names AML Marketing’s Adrian Lambert, ex-Blackbird, as vice president-marketing … Anti-ransomware company Halcyon hires Chris Catanzaro, ex-SentinelOne, as worldwide vice president-channel and managed security service provider, and David French, ex-Apiiro, as vice president-sales ... Pionare taps ex-YEA Networks executive Mike Morse, also former iHeartMedia, SiriusXM and Capitol Broadcasting, as president-podcasting operations.

Sonos adds VF Corp. President-CEO Bracken Darrell, also former Logitech CEO, to its board ... NTCA honors winners of Excellence Awards: Nancy White, National Cooperative Services Corp. vice president.; Karla Krause, Lynxx Networks project coordinator; Nikki Harless, RiverStreet Networks, accountant; David Redman, RTC Communications board president; Gary Johnson, CEO of Paul Bunyan Communications; Jake Fostvedt, Mosaic Technologies sales and service technician; Paul Bunyan Communications’ Leo Anderson, technology experience manager, and Brian Bissonette, marketing supervisor; Shawn Grosz, SRT Communications chief technology officer; and Russell Kacer, YK Communications president.