Sinclair appoints Mike Palmer, assistant vice president-media management, as its representative on the Entertainment ID Registry board for a one-year term ... Circles, SaaS platform targeting the telco industry, hires Dish Network’s Kannan Alagappan as chief technology officer ... Quad Investors Network, charitable initiative to promote tech development in the Indo-Pacific region, adds Nishant Batra, Nokia chief strategy and technology officer, to its advisory board ... Griffin Gaming Partners, venture capital firm focused on gaming, adds Striker Entertainment founding partner Russell Binder as a venture partner and IP adviser ... Keyfactor, identity security platform, names Scott Meyerhoff, ex-EmployBridge, chief financial officer ... Talkdesk hires UiPath’s Munil Shah, also former Microsoft, as chief technology officer ... Phoji, developer of customized emojis for digital and mobile marketing communications, adds Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, former vice president-general manager of Snap’s augmented reality platform, to its board, pending shareholder approval at July annual meeting; Papamiltiadis also is former Meta vice president-platform partnerships.