Akin adds former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, as a senior consultant in its D.C. office ... Newly added to Paley Center for Media board of trustees: Omar Abbosh, Pearson CEO; Kristin Dolan, AMC Networks CEO; Brad Karp, Paul Weiss chairman; and Dennis Mathew, Altice USA chairman-CEO; joining the Paley Los Angeles board of governors are Jesse Collins, Collins Entertainment founder-CEO; Sharb Farjami, GroupM North America CEO; Daryl Lee, McCann Worldgroup global CEO; Christian Muirhead, William Morris Endeavor co-chairman; and Ben Samek, Banijay Americas CEO ... Changes to Cogeco’s leadership roles, effective Sept. 1 with the combining of the U.S. and Canadian telecommunications businesses into a single North American organization: Sean Brushett to chief operating officer; Nancy Audette to senior vice president-growth initiatives; Marie Ginette Lepage to senior vice president-transformation; and Paul Cowling joins Cogeco July 2 from Xplore as chief legal and corporate affairs officer.

Aviat Networks, wireless transport and access solutions company, adds Michael Connaway, ex-Honeywell, as senior vice president-chief financial officer ... Synadia Communications hires Google’s Justyna Bak as its first vice president-marketing, and promotes Director-Developer Relations Byron Ruth to vice president-engineering and product ... Ironwave Technologies, RF and microwave solutions provider, adds retired Army Lt. Gen. David Bassett to its advisory board ... Ubicquia, supplier of intelligent infrastructure platforms and analytics for utilities, adds Florida Power & Light’s Manny Miranda to its board ... Token, authentication solutions provider, hires Stanley Black & Decker’s Robert Osterwise, also former AT&T, as chief technology officer, and Tim Tonges, ex-Great Northern Consulting, as chief revenue officer, and adds them both to its executive leadership team ... Technology and Services Industry Association adds Smartsheet Chief Commercial Officer Michael Hubbard to its executive advisory board ... Anvl, connected worker software platform, names Nick Fragakis, ex-Schneider Electric, director-AI.

Life360, family connection and safety company, taps former Lyft, Instagram, Facebook and Rivian executive Justin Moore as chief technology officer ... BearCom, provider of voice, security and data solutions, hires Tom Echols, ex-Stanley Security, as vice president-security solutions, and Mike Pietrunti, ex-Xerox, also former Kyocera and Sharp Electronics, as vice president-mergers and acquisitions ... Vnue, music technology company, adds Best Bet Promotions founder-President Jody Best, also former Capitol Records veteran, to its new artist services division to spearhead division’s record promotions ... Google Fiber appoints Dataminr’s John Abbot as its first chief financial officer … GTT Communications appoints Mia Martuscelli, ex-American Tower, as senior vice president-channel chief, indirect channels business-the Americas … OpenAI board forms safety and security committee led by directors Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo, Nicole Seligman and CEO Sam Altman and including Rob Joyce, former NSA director-cybersecurity, and John Carlin, co-chair of Paul Weiss’ cybersecurity and data protection practice.