SBA Communications announces retirement of Jason Silberstein as executive vice president-site leasing, promoting Senior Vice President-Services Donald Day to succeed him and Vice President-Site Development Services Nichole Thomas to replace Day, all effective Aug. 1 ... NAB radio board adds Jeanna Berge, president of iHeart Media in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Rochester, Minnesota, filling seat vacated by iHeart Media’s Joel McCrea ... Velos IoT hires Semtech’s Colin Chew, also ex-Sierra Wireless, as CEO, succeeding Graeme Millar ... DXC Technology moves board member-interim CEO Raul Fernandez, vice chairman-co-owner of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, to permanent CEO role ... S&P Global promotes Christopher Craig to interim chief financial officer, effective Feb. 12, replacing current CFO Ewout Steenbergen, departing in March ... Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) taps LionHeart Cybersecurity Advisors founder John Godfrey as the state’s chief information security officer.

Alaska Power & Telephone hires Kymeta’s William Marks, also former Maritime Telecommunications Network and DirecTV, as president-CEO, effective immediately, replacing Michael Garrett, retiring, but remaining senior adviser to Marks through March 31 ... Metro One adds Cerian Technology Ventures President-CEO Brian Sagi to its board, and appoints Treasurer-interim Chief Financial Officer James Brodie, current board member, as secretary ... Infinite Reality taps former Columbia Pictures and Columbia TriStar Chairman Mark Canton as chief creative consultant and chairman of its entertainment advisory board ... Netgear taps Charles Prober, former Life360 president and ex-GoPro chief operating officer, as CEO-chairman, replacing retiring Patrick Lo, remaining a strategic adviser through July ... Cybersecurity company Bitsight forms cyber risk advisory board, naming as founding members: former Rep. James Langevin, D-R.I.; Roland Cloutier, former ByteDance and TikTok chief security officer; and Homaira Akbari, CEO of AKnowledge Partners, also former Microsoft, Thales and Liberty Media.

Web accessibility platform AudioEye hires Mike Paciello, former co-chair of U.S. Access Board's Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee, as chief accessibility officer ... Emnify, cloud building block for cellular communications in the IoT stack, adds Stanford University lecturer Lynda Smith, also former Twilio chief marketing officer, to its board ... Cirrus Logic announces that Deirdre Hanford won’t stand for reelection to its board in light of her appointment as CEO of National Semiconductor Technology Center (see 2401160024) ... Bot management company Arkose Labs adds David Reilly, former Bank of America chief information officer and chief technology officer, to its board.

Motion Picture Association announces Patrick Wolf, ex-Cinq Music Group, as senior vice president-chief accounting officer … SolarWinds hires Brian Goldfarb, ex-Tenable, also former Google and Splunk, as chief marketing officer ... Telecoming, distributor of sports entertainment and information services through mobile consumption, promotes Roberto Monge to chief business officer ... Defense technology company Reticulate Micro forms Reticulate Space, new satellite communications business segment, and promotes David Horton to the segment’s president and Mark Steel to chief technology officer in addition to his continuing role as Reticulate Micro executive vice president-product and services; company also hires Comtech’s Paul Scardino, also former L3 Harris Technologies, for dual role as Reticulate Micro executive vice president-sales and Reticulate Space chief strategy officer ... LeddarTech, automotive software company, adds Sylvie Veilleux, ex-Dropbox chief information officer, and ASG Renaissance co-founder Lizabeth Ardisana to its board.

IRobot announces departure of CEO-Chairman Colin Angle, with Chief Legal Officer Glen Weinstein becoming interim CEO and board member Andrew Miller becoming chairman (see 2401290044); Amazon and iRobot announced Monday their agreement to terminate their pending merger, citing "no path to regulatory approval in the European Union" … FCC Enforcement Bureau announces Alice Suh Jou, ex-DOJ, as assistant bureau chief and Jolina Cuaresma, former Common Sense Media, as senior policy counsel, with both to participate on Enforcement Bureau-led Privacy and Data Protection Task Force … Future of Privacy Forum appoints Anne Flanagan, ex-World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as vice president-AI … Incompas hires Keith Matthews, Mortgage Bankers Association, as digital media manager … Ericsson promotes Chafic Nassif to senior vice president-head, Northeast Asia market area … Mitel hires Black Box’s Jonathan Buckle, also former Carousel Industries and Avaya, to lead sales strategy and execution-the Americas ... Cadent, converged TV advertising platform, adds Greg Coleman, entrepreneur in residence at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, also former BuzzFeed president, to its board ... Sonos adds Rocket Companies Chief Marketing Officer Jonathan Mildenhall to its board ... SES AI, developer and producer of lithium-metal batteries for electric vehicles, adds former Intel CEO Brian Krzanich to its board, expanding it to seven members.

USTelecom elects Kristi Moody, Windstream executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer, and Amy Holcroft, Twilio chief privacy officer, to its board, and adds Lightcurve President-CEO Anand Vadapalli to its leadership committee ... NPR announces Web Summit’s Katherine Maher as president-CEO, succeeding John Lansing, effective March 25 … Sequence, development platform for web3 gaming, hires Google’s Greg Canessa, also former Xbox Live Arcade general manager-creator, as president-chief operating officer ... LG Ad Solutions, connected TV and cross-screen advertising platforms, restores Alphonso founders Ashish Chordia and Lampros Kalampoukas to the board after successful legal challenge to their December 2022 removal, and names Alphonso early investor Paul Falzone, managing partner-CEO of venture capital firm Manifest, as an additional director ... Alteryx, analytics cloud platform, appoints Chief Financial Officer Kevin Rubin interim CEO, replacing departed Mark Anderson.

FCC commissioners announce staff changes: Sanford Williams moves from special adviser to deputy chief of staff in Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel’s office; Arpan Sura, from Wireless Bureau, becomes legal adviser to Commissioner Brendan Carr; Milla Anderson, from office of Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H., becomes policy adviser to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks; and acting staffers in Commissioner Anna Gomez’s office taking permanent spots are Deena Shetler as chief of staff-legal adviser for media and international, Edyael Casaperalt as legal adviser for Wireless, Public Safety and Consumer Protection, Hayley Steffen as legal adviser for Wireline and Space, Harsha Mudaliar as policy adviser for media and tech and Anna Holland, as executive assistant … Also, Rosenworcel announces retirements of Andrea Kearney from Office of General Counsel; Sheryl Segal, associate secretary-information; and Mary Romano, Enforcement Bureau … K&L Gates adds Joseph Trahern, ex-Comast, of counsel-public policy and law … Hallmark Media promotes John Matts to chief operating officer … Lantronix, IoT market provider, adds Christa Steele, ex-Balco, to its board ... Crown Castle adds Bradley Singer, ex-ValueAct and former Discovery, to its board.

Public Knowledge hires Stephen Bennett, ex-Institute for Palestine Studies-USA, as director-development and external affairs; Alisa Valentin, ex-National Urban League and ex-FCC, as broadband policy director; Nat Purser, former Center for Economic and Policy Research, as government affairs policy advocate; and Georgetown Law Communications and Technology Law Clinic’s Lauren Harriman as fellow … Free State Foundation announces former FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly as adjunct senior fellow, launching video podcast, “TMT With Mike O’Rielly” … Ericsson promotes Niklas Heuveldop to head-business area global communications platform and CEO-Vonage and Yossi Cohen to senior vice president-head, market area North America, both effective Feb. 1; Heuveldop succeeds Rory Read, stepping down Feb. 1 and leaving end of Q1 … Protiviti Consulting elevates 36 staffers including for technology: Nick Britton, Pierce Chakraborty, Andre Cilurzo, James Eick, Joseph Emerson, Chris Hanson, Joe Marcum and Hirun Tantirigama as managing directors and Willy Alvarado as senior director … Verrill names Keefe Clemons, ex-Verizon, partner-energy, telecommunications and natural resources group.

Qualcomm promotes Chief Financial Officer Akash Palkhiwala to expanded role of CFO and chief operating officer ... Former FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Director Jessica Rich, ex-Kelley Drye, joins Consumer Product Safety Commission as general counsel, succeeding Austin Schlick, who is promoted to executive director … Bureau of Industry and Security hires Microsoft’s Elizabeth Cannon as first executive director-Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services … Sinclair moves Diana Wilkin to vice president-general manager, West Palm Beach, Florida, market ... Fox promotes Jeff Collins to president-advertising sales, marketing and brand partnerships, succeeding Marianne Gambelli, retiring … LG Ad Solutions, connected TV and cross-screen advertising platform, names GumGum’s Angela Barnett head-corporate communications ... WWE parent company TKO Group Holdings adds Uptake Technologies founder Brad Keywell and actor and part WWE owner Dwayne Johnson to its board, expanding it to 13 members ... DoubleVerify, software platform for digital media measurement, hires Onfido’s Alex Valle, also former Criteo and ex-Google, as new chief product officer, succeeding Jack Smith, moving into newly created role of chief innovation officer ... Infoblox, cloud networking and security services company, taps Lyft’s Amy Farrow as senior vice president-chief information officer.

Newly promoted at Indie Semiconductor: Peter Gulden to executive vice president-radar systems and software; Abhay Rai to chief product officer; and Michael Wittmann to chief operating officer ... Resilio, file synchronization solutions company for content creation workflows, hires Signiant’s Thomas Bush as vice president-strategic accounts, media and entertainment ... ViewLift, digital content distribution platform for sports and entertainment streaming, adds John Rose, Boston Consulting Group managing director and senior partner, and also former EMI Group, and Steve Byrd, former Sportradar head-global strategic partnerships, to its board.