FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announces Arpan Sura, from the Wireless Bureau, as his legal adviser … 5G Americas elects Ulf Ewaldsson, T-Mobile US president-technology, as board chairman … Brent Skorup announces he has left George Mason University's Mercatus Center to become a research fellow at the Cato Institute's Levy Center for Constitutional Studies … Pierson Ferdinand, tech-focused law firm, launches, with more than 130 partners representing 80-plus practices areas, including partners, all from FisherBroyles: Rachel Huffstetler and Keats Quinalty, both intellectual property; Adam Ettinger, chief technology officer; Vincent Bushnell, cyber risk, privacy and data Security; Je d Davis, Charles Geitner and Dan McGuire, cybersecurity and privacy; Maryam Meseha, cybersecurity and data protection; and Tony Onorato, cybersecurity, cyber risk and data breach ... Vislink appoints Christopher DeSalvo, ex-Paychex, as chief financial officer-vice president, operations ... Fox News Media promotes Scott Wilder to executive vice president-production and operations ... NetApp names Commvault’s Riccardo Di Blasio senior vice president-North America sales ... Intel hires Justin Hotard from Hewlett Packard Enterprise as executive vice president-general manager, Data Center and AI Group, and adds him to its executive leadership team, effective Feb. 1.

ACA Connects hires three vice presidents: Zamir Ahmed, ex-NAB, for external affairs; Olivia Shields, ex-House Commerce Committee, public affairs and communications; and Max Staloff, ex-Jenner & Block and former FCC, for regulatory affairs … USTelecom appoints Keller and Heckman’s Kathleen Slattery Thompson as vice president-policy and advocacy … Akin promotes intellectual property lawyer David Lee to partner … Troutman Pepper Names patent and IP partner Tate Tischner as managing partner, Rochester office … Former Lawler Metzger partner Jim Falvey announces opening of The Law Office of James C. Falvey, representing fiber infrastructure and other telecom providers ... Carbyne, tech provider for emergency response call management, appoints Chris Hill, ex-Synchronoss Technologies, as chief operating officer … Secure Technology Alliance’s Identity and Access Forum announces its first steering committee, including Chair Teresa Wu, Idemia; Vice Chair Rajan Barara, Entrust; Secretary Sruti Jain, Consult Hyperion; and Treasurer Jatin Deshpande, Giesecke+Devrient … Edge-computing platform Edgio promotes Chief Revenue Officer Todd Hinders to CEO, replacing Bob Lyons, who left his roles as president-CEO and as a member of the board ... Sovrn, tech platform for online publishers, hires Criteo’s Isaac Schechtman as vice president-product, Ad Exchange.

Laura Phillips, ex-Faegre Drinker, launches Phillips Communications Law, focused on telecom … TDS Telecom promotes Shane West to chief operating officer … Following its acquisition of Broadcast Microwave Services, Vislink Technologies announces Bill Sweeney, ex-Troll Systems and ex-BMS, as managing director-military government business … With EchoStar completing its Dish acquisition, combined company fixes board at 11 members, appointing Dish CEO-President Hamid Akhavan; directors from Dish; Kathleen Abernathy, Cantey Ergen, Stephen Bye, James DeFranco, George Brokaw and Tom Ortolf; and directors from EchoStar Stanton Dodge, Lisa Hershman and William Wade; Charles Ergen continues as chairman … MediaCo Holding hires iHeart Media’s Chris Squire as senior vice president-sales and marketing, HOT 97 and WBLS(FM) New York ... Zeasn, developer of the Whale television operating system, hires Roku’s Mike Duin as vice president-global marketing and communications and adds him to its global strategy committee ... Carbyne, provider of emergency response call management software, taps Synchronoss Technologies’ Chris Hill, also former AT&T, as chief operating officer ... Krista Witanowski, ex-Meta, joins FCC as legal adviser-Office of Engineering and Technology ... Huading Awards Group announces resignation of filmmaker Wang Haige as chairman with the expiration of his term.

Cybersecurity firms SecureMac and ThreatHunter.ai add their respective CEOs, Nicholas Raba and James McMurry, to each other’s advisory boards.

General Datatech, network integration services provider to the telecom industry, hires Riveron Consulting’s Rick Haughey as chief financial officer.

Coalition for Independent Technology Research announces board member Brandi Geurkink, ex-Mozilla Foundation, as inaugural executive director, effective January … Diodes, supplier of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and optical transceiver modules, promotes Chief Operating Officer Gary Yu to president, effective Jan. 2; Keh-Shew Lu continues as chairman-CEO at least through May 2027, consistent with his current employment agreement ... Sealsq, tech hardware and software company, hires Franck Buonanno, from WISeKey International, as vice president-global sales, semiconductor and public key infrastructure activities.

Fastly, edge cloud computing platform, hires Cisco’s Kip Compton as chief product officer, effective Jan. 2 ... Knocking, e-commerce and content creation company, promotes Scott Spurgeon to vice president-Knocking Studio and Courtney Spencer to director-brand partnerships ... Internet gaming company Gan announces that Seamus McGill will step down as chairman, remaining interim CEO; board member David Goldberg succeeds McGill as chairman; Gan also adds David Ross, CEO of Gaming Asset Management Enterprises, to its board to replace Michael Smurfit, departing effective Dec. 31.

Dish Network announces Svetlana Matt, ex-Meta, as director-public policy; Malcolm Sherrod, former FGS Global, as manager-government relations; and Phillip Waller, ex-office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., as manager-policy communications and public affairs … TDS Telecom promotes Jeff Mand to vice president-construction and service enablement, effective Dec. 31 ... Nexstar Media Group extends employment agreement for Lee Ann Gliha, executive vice president-chief financial officer, through 2026, with one-year renewals ... EnCharge AI, developer of advanced AI chipsets, hires Embark Trucks’ Jonny Morris, also onetime presidential management fellow under President Barack Obama, as vice president-government affairs and communications, and adds Don Rosenberg, retired former Qualcomm executive vice president-general counsel and corporate secretary, to its board ... DoubleVerify, digital media measurement software platform, adds Match Group President-Chief Financial Officer Gary Swidler to its board, effective Feb. 20 ... Brent Skorup announces his departure as senior research fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, to join the Cato Institute’s Levy Center for Constitutional Studies as a research fellow, effective Jan. 2 … C-Spire promotes Chief Marketing Officer Suzy Hays to president and Chief Information Officer Brad Carpenter to chief operating officer.

Planet Labs, provider of daily satellite imagery and geospatial solutions, to nominate former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki for election to its board at 2024 annual meeting ... Resco, developer of cross-platform mobile software, adds former Microsoft veteran Ben Vollmer as a strategic adviser ... Vecima Networks elects retired Comcast executive Sam Chernak to its board ... Newly created Oklahoma Cyber Innovation Institute at the University of Tulsa taps Chad Raduege, former chief information officer at the Air Force European Command in Stuttgart, as its first executive director ... Cloud networking company Extreme Networks names Hitachi Vantara’s Monica Kumar executive vice president-chief marketing officer ... Peloton adds Chris Bruzzo, former Electronic Arts executive vice president-chief experience officer, to its board, replacing departed Jonathan Mildenhall.

Lumen Technologies taps Amazon Web Services’ Satish Lakshmanan as chief product officer ... Wireless network Really hires Jessie Scelzi, ex-Let's Do This and formerly The Zebra, as chief revenue officer ... Tegna promotes Byron Wilkinson to president-general manager at KVUE Austin, where he was interim general manager ... Streaming tech company Brightcove hires Rapid7's Kathy Klingler as chief marketing officer and Flowcode’s Jim Norton as chief revenue officer, both effective Jan. 8, and promotes David Beck, Brightcove’s current chief strategy and corporate development officer, to newly expanded role as chief operating officer ... OpenWeb names AI Foundation founder Rob Meadows chief technology officer ... JMI Equity, venture capital firm focused on investing in cloud software companies, promotes Maggie Schmitt to partner; she continues as chief financial officer ... BCN, communications technology solutions provider, hires Nitel’s Rich Fisher as a partner sales director ... Cineverse, streaming tech and entertainment company, adds Beech Lane Media Advisors’ Mary Ann Halford, also former Altman Solon, to its board, replacing Bison Finance founder Peixin Xu, retiring.