New NEP Group appointments: Lise Heidal, former vice president-production for TV 2 in Norway, is hired as president-NEP Europe for NEP broadcast services, effective April 1; Christer Palsson is promoted to chief commercial officer-Europe, reporting to Heidal; and interim SuperSport CEO Jose Teixeira, also its chief content officer, is tapped as president-NEP Nordics, effective April 4 ... EBay adds Workday Chief Financial Officer Zane Rowe to its board, expanding it to 10 members ... Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, hires Victoria Ellington, ex-Ron DeSantis presidential campaign staffer, as deputy chief of staff, promotes Omri Ceren to legislative director, Tim Dill to national security adviser and Samara Brown to domestic policy adviser, and announces return of Cassy Garcia, most recently with Hispanic Republicans of Texas, as deputy state director … Summit Ridge Group promotes Fan Jia to director, Daniel-John Perez and Samantha Lynch to vice presidents, and Katie DiRico to associate.

Meta adds Broadcom President-CEO Hock Tan and John Arnold, co-founder and co-chair of Arnold Ventures, to its board ... Mitel names Eric Hanson, ex-OneSpan, chief marketing officer ... Oxio, telecom-as-a-service platform, adds Zain Manekia, ex-NMS Capital, as an independent board member and head-strategic investments ... SOSi promotes Jim Edwards to chief growth officer ... Disney promotes Debra OConnell to president of newly formed News Group and Networks, Disney Entertainment, combining ABC News, ABC Owned Television Stations and Networks Business Operations ... Vislink Technologies names AML Marketing’s Adrian Lambert, ex-Blackbird, as vice president-marketing.

Nexstar Media Group hires former Katz Media Group executive Stacey Schulman as executive vice president-platform marketing and intelligence, newly created position ... Sonos adds VF Corp. President-CEO Bracken Darrell, also former Logitech CEO, to its board ... Anti-ransomware company Halcyon hires Chris Catanzaro, ex-SentinelOne, as worldwide vice president-channel and managed security service provider, and David French, ex-Apiiro, as vice president-sales ... Pionare taps ex-YEA Networks executive Mike Morse, also former iHeartMedia, SiriusXM and Capitol Broadcasting, as president-podcasting operations ... Squire Patton hires Bridget McGovern, former Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary, as partner-public policy … Motion Picture Association names Jonathan Powell, ex-State Department adviser, as senior vice president-strategic communications.

Squire Patton hires Bridget McGovern, former Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary, as partner-public policy … Motion Picture Association names Jonathan Powell, ex-State Department adviser, as senior vice president-strategic communications … Nexstar Media Group rehires Angie Salas for the role of vice president-general manager of its broadcasting and digital operations in Champaign and Springfield, Illinois; she was director-sales in 2012-2019 for Nexstar’s media businesses in Quad Cities, Iowa, before joining WRTV, the ABC affiliate in Indianapolis, in a similar capacity ... Anti-ransomware company Halcyon adds former SentinelOne executive Nicholas Warner to its board ... LegalShield hires company adviser Robert Toevs, former Dish Network executive and also ex-Qwest Communications, as chief communications officer, reporting to CEO Warren Schlichting, also former Dish.

Comcast promotes Ricky Frazier to senior vice president-Keystone region, encompassing parts of Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia ... Alphawave Semi, supplier of high-speed connectivity infrastructure silicon, hires Charlie Roach, ex-Inphi, as chief revenue officer ... Thunderbird Entertainment taps Simon Bodymore, ex-Tasktop Technologies, as chief financial officer, effective March 4, succeeding Barb Harwood, departing Thunderbird March 1 ... New York Amsterdam News hires PBS NewsHour’s Aaron Foley as news editor, and promotes Damaso Reyes to executive editor.

Mattel hires Christopher Farrell, ex-Ahold Delhaize, as executive vice president-chief strategy officer ... GoDaddy taps .Jared Sine, ex-Match Group and also former Expedia Group, as chief strategy and legal officer, effective March 18 ... Connectivity cloud company names board member Mark Anderson, former Alteryx CEO, as president-revenue ... Rockwell Automation promotes Matheus Bulho to senior vice president-software and control, effective April 1, succeeding Brian Shepherd, departing Rockwell in June ... EZ Texting, text communications platform, hires Karbon’s Frank Colich as chief financial officer and adds him to its executive leadership team

BlackBerry adds former Sierra Wireless President-CEO Philip Brace to its board to replace Prem Watsa, resigning, effective Feb. 15 ... Geospatial intelligence company Maxar Intelligence hires former Meta, Apple and Google executive Arvind Srinivasan as chief technology officer ... US Signal, provider of cloud solutions, network connectivity and data center services, hires Sean Socha, ex-FirstLight Fiber, as chief financial officer ... Sidus Space taps Bill White, ex-ProPhase Labs’ and also former Intellicheck, as CFO, effective Feb. 20, replacing Teresa Burchfield, remaining with the company in an advisory role ... The Futurum Group, technology advisory, media and research firm, names Techstrong Group's Shira Rubinoff president of its newly formed cybersecurity practice after acquiring her branded cybersecurity assets, including her video series, speakerships and consulting activities ... National Security Council promotes Matt Pearl to director and special adviser-emerging technologies, and hires NTIA’s Brian Larkin as a director ... Public policy firm Klein/Johnson Group acquires media, tech and telecom advocacy firm Perry Bayliss Government Relations, with the latter’s Steve Perry and Kim Bayliss becoming Klein/Johnson principals (see 2402080057) ... National Press Club Journalism Institute announces new board members: Mike Balsamo, the Associated Press; Jamila Bey, WHYY Philadelphia; Ed Kelley, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma; Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak, ProPublica and past National Press Club president; and Delano Massey, Axios.

Mattel adds former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Dawn Ostroff, former Spotify chief content and advertising business officer, and also Conde Nast Entertainment founder, to its board, replacing departed board members Todd Bradley and Ann Lewnes ... Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announces leaders of U.S. AI Safety Institute, to be established at the National Institute for Standards and Technology: White House National Economic Council’s Elizabeth Kelly as director and NIST’s Information Technology Laboratory Elham Tabassi as chief technology officer (see 2402070069) … America’s Public Television Stations announces election results, including newly elected board members Clarence Copeland, president-CEO, Louisiana Public Broadcasting; Diana Enzi, WyomingPBS Foundation board; and Susan Reardon, PBS SoCal board … Digital communications company IDX hires Scott Paterson, ex-Trend Networks, as chief financial officer ... Babel Street, identity intelligence and risk management platform, adds former CIA Chief Data Scientist Barbara Stevens to its board of advisers, expanding it to five members ... Slingshot Aerospace, satellite tracking and space modeling platform, hires Dun & Bradstreet’s Tim Solms, also former Microsoft, Dell and VMware, as CEO ... Cybersecurity vendor SoSafe names Andrew Rose, ex-Proofpoint, chief security officer ... Aderant, legal business management software provider, hires Lisa Erickson, ex-Veritas Technologies, as vice president-product AI and cloud transformation, newly created position.

Lumen Technologies taps Dave Ward, ex-PacketFabric, as chief technology officer … Wireless Infrastructure Association announces board changes: SBA CEO Brendan Cavanagh takes seat of Jeff Stoops, who retires from SBA; Mike Kavanagh, Crown Castle executive vice president and chief operating officer-towers, joins board; and Bud Noel, American Tower executive vice president and president-U.S. Tower Division, replaces CEO Steve Vondran on board … Nexstar Media Group board adopts new policy that bars the same individual from serving as board chair and CEO, effective only after Chairman-CEO Perry Sook, Nexstar’s founder and currently its third largest shareholder, leaves Nexstar and the board; Sook’s current employment agreement runs through March 2026 ... YL Ventures, cybersecurity venture capital firm, adds Justin Somaini, former chief information security officer at Unity, SAP, Yahoo and Symantec, as a full-time partner ... RS Technologies, manufacturer of composite utility poles, taps board member John Higgins, also former MasTec, as CEO, replacing departed George Kirby ... Crowell & Moring names Pillsbury’s Rafi Azim-Khan to lead its digital law practice in Europe ... Deepwatch, managed security platform, hires Cofense’s Shane McGee as general counsel and chief privacy officer.

E.W. Scripps hires AMC Networks’ Tony Song as head-network sales and advanced TV, newly created role, effective Wednesday ... Frontier Communications adds Woody Young, ex-Perella Weinberg Partners and also former Lazard, to its board ... Davis Wright hires Brown Rudnick’s Julia Bennett as chief marketing and business development officer, based in the firm’s D.C. office ... Thunderbird Entertainment adds former Alliance Atlantis Communications, Allstream and Bell Canada executive David Lazzarato to its board.