Kansas Commerce Department appoints Deputy Director-Broadband Development Joseph Le as interim director, Office of Broadband Development, during search to replace Jade Piros de Carvalho, reportedly ousted … Nexstar Media Group hires Amazon’s Lisa Taylor as senior vice president-digital advertising sales … Barracuda Networks hires former Check Point Software executive Geoff Waters, also ex-VMware, as chief revenue officer ... SolarWinds hires Actian CEO Lewis Black, also former Nexmo, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Avaya and Citrix, as chief financial officer, effective in August, to succeed departing Barton Kalsu, remaining CFO through Aug. 15 and serving in an advisory capacity thereafter.

NetApp names Pure Storage’s Mike Sakalas vice president-U.S. enterprise sales ... Cybersecurity company LogRhythm adds former Deloitte and Compuware executive Pete Harteveld as leader-value creation, in preparation for company’s upcoming combination with Exabeam ... Builder.ai, composable software platform, taps Amazon’s Craig Saunders as vice president-AI ... Xperi adds former Netflix President-Worldwide Advertising Jeremi Gorman and Roderick Randall, Siris Capital Group executive partner, to its board, expanding it to seven members.