Ballard Spahr names Jeffrey Morgan, ex-Barnes & Thornburg, as of counsel, intellectual property … Maryland Innovation Initiative hires Southern Research Chief Business Officer Abishek Kulshreshtha as its new executive director, effective July 1 ... WISeKey International Holding cybersecurity company announces retirement of Peter Ward as chief financial officer, effective June 30, succeeded by SEALSQ’s John O’Hara, effective July 1; Ward remaining on board … Intracom Telecom Group hires Kyriakos Vergos, ex-Codium Networks, as chief commercial officer ... Redwire, space infrastructure company, taps Virgin Galactic’s Aaron Futch, also former Intelsat, as executive vice president-general counsel and secretary.

OpenAI adds retired Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, former head-U.S. Cyber Command and ex-NSA director, to board … American Advertising Federation announces Jack Bamberger, TikTok U.S. general manager-agency business, as chair, and Jacki Kelley, IPG executive vice president-chief client officer and chief business officer, as vice chair, both effective July 1; Bamberger moves up from vice chair to succeed Helen Lin ... Cisco adds Ekta Singh-Bushell, ex-Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to its board ... DigiFolio, a web3 company, appoints advisory board members: Luis Garcia, brand ambassador; Marc Domenech, Nvidia; Himanshu Gulati, former Norwegian secretary of state; Hadir Gaber, BingX; and Muhammad Taufique, Blockliz founder … ASGN, IT provider, adds adviser Patricia Obermaier, Microsoft chief growth officer, to board and board's strategy and technology committee ... ATSC honors Sung-Ik Park of South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute with its Mark Richer industry leadership medal, and Ali Dernaika of Hewlett Packard Enterprise with its Bernard Lechner outstanding contributor award.