North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) appoints interim Chief Information Officer Greg Hoffman to permanent post ... Avaya’s CEO Alan Masarek to retire at year end; board chair Patrick Dennis, also CEO of cybersecurity firm Venafi, succeeds him Sept. 1 ... AI startup Ada IQ appoints Liz Graham, ex-Indigo, as CEO ... Software company smartShift hires Jagdish Sahasrabudhe, ex-SAP, as chief technology officer ... IT services company CompQsoft appoints Dave Wendel, previously Alithya, as vice president-sales ... O-RAN Alliance elects Deutsche Telekom’s Abdurazak Mudesir as chairman ... Streaming Video Technology Alliance elects Amazon’s Nicolas Weil and Broadpeak’s Guillaume Bichot to board ... Former Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, joins Personal AI board.