NAB hires Ray Quinones, ex-office of Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., as director-government relations … Arista Networks appoints Aspen Technology’s Chantelle Breithaupt as chief financial officer, effective February … NCTA board changes: Cox Communications President Mark Greatrex becomes vice chairman, succeeding Charter Communications’ retiring Executive Chairman Tom Rutledge; Charter CEO Chris Winfrey becomes board corporate system director and Comcast Cable CEO Dave Watson treasurer; Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott joins board as at-large program director and CommScope CEO Chuck Treadway as associate director, replacing CommScope’s Frank Drendel, retiring and stepping down from board ... Windstream promotes Joe Scattareggia to president-wholesale, and Mike Flannery to president-enterprise; Scattareggia and Flannery, who previously served as the chief revenue officers of their respective business units, succeed former Windstream Wholesale and Enterprise President Buddy Bayer, departing year-end to pursue another opportunity.
Optimum hires Comcast’s Michael Parker as executive vice president-business services, newly created role, and promotes David Williams to executive vice president and president-consumer services and Leroy Williams to executive vice president-chief growth and innovation officer ... Cox Enterprises advances Patrick O'Boyle to senior vice president-corporate development, and elevates Rob Huting to vice president-corporate development, reporting to O'Boyle ... Tencent Music Entertainment Group Vice President Lixue Shi resigns for personal reasons, effective Dec. 31 ... TechNet promotes Patricia Albertson to senior vice president-administration in addition to her continuing role as chief financial officer … Wiley announces Sydney White, former T-Mobile analyst, as special counsel in its privacy, cyber and data governance and telecom, media and technology practices ... Arista Networks appoints Aspen Technology’s Chantelle Breithaupt as chief financial officer, effective February.
Disney adds Morgan Stanley Chairman-CEO James Gorman and former Sky Group Chief Executive Jeremy Darroch to its board; Gorman’s appointment is effective Feb. 5, Darroch's is effective Jan. 9 ... Inseego, 5G edge cloud solutions company, hires Sierra Wireless’ Keri Bolding as senior vice president-global channel sales and distribution, newly created role ... Musixmatch, global music data platform, names former Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff chief business officer ... Bastion, web3 orchestrator company, promotes Caroline Friedman to chief operating officer.
Arkose Labs, bot management and online security company, hires Mimecast’s John Walsh as chief technology officer; Ashish Jain, who previously headed engineering and product for Arkose, moves to chief product officer ... Qrypt, quantum-secure encryption company, adds Roger Biscay, Cisco senior vice president-corporate treasurer and head-global corporate security, to its board of advisers ... SkyePoint Decisions, cybersecurity solutions provider to the federal government, promotes Heather Conigliaro to president ... AlertMedia, emergency communications provider, names Marc Ostryniec, ex-BigCommerce, chief revenue officer.
TowerNorth, developer and operator of wireless infrastructure assets in the U.S. and Europe, hires Full Tilt Energy Systems’ Tim Jaki, also former Crown Castle, as chief operating officer; Parallel Infrastructure’s Joshua Mossey as chief financial officer; and American Tower’s Pablo Herrera as vice president-corporate development ... New hires at Astera Labs, connectivity solutions provider for cloud and AI infrastructure: Elli Castro-Bordano, ex-Marvell Technology, as vice president-deputy general counsel; Meta’s Chris Petersen as fellow-technology and ecosystems; and Diakopto’s Kelvin Khoo, also former Broadcom, as senior vice president-corporate development ... Mobility app company inDrive taps Careem’s Stephen Kruger, also former IBM, as chief technology and product officer.
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation announces former Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., now of Arnold and Porter, as board co-chair, succeeding Susan Davis, retiring from that role; Davis is a former Democratic member of Congress from California … Media Institute announces First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams of Cahill Gordon as chair of The Madison Project: Free Speech and Press in American Democracy’s steering committee … Minutes Network, blockchain-based international voice-calling and wholesale termination service provider, adds Josh Watkins, World Mobile Group co-founder and its former chief information officer, as CEO ... S4 Capital, digital advertising and marketing services company, promotes Melanie Dhawan to chief financial officer for its content practice ... American Express elevates Sharon Chew to vice president-general manager, global merchant services, Asia.
Preformed Line Products promotes Chief Operating Officer Dennis McKenna to CEO, effective Jan. 1, when current CEO Robert Ruhlman becomes executive chairman ... New ImOn Communications hires: David Birnbaum, ex-BlueVoyant, as chief information officer; Patty Lynott, ex-Zayo Group, as vice president-customer experience, and Cindy Huber, ex-Fiberutilities Group, as vice president-marketing ... Quickplay, over-the-top cloud provider, names Xavier Marle, ex-iWedia, regional sales director, Southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand ... Lantronix President and CEO Saleel Awsare joins company board.
Content delivery platform Gcore adds Paul Wedgwood, founder of videogame developer Splash Damage, to its board as a nonexecutive director ... Perion Network, digital advertising tech company, adds CEO Tal Jacobson to its board, filling seat vacated with departure of former CEO Doron Gerstel ... Automation Anywhere, intelligent automation platform, taps Amazon Web Services’ Moon-Hyung Lee as South Korea country manager.
Optical connectivity company STL hires former TE Connectivity and CommScope executive David De Craemer as head-business, and Tomasz Bednarczyk, ex-Corning, as global R&D head-optical connectivity business ... Silvus Technologies, provider of wireless networking communications systems, taps Getaround’s Eduardo Iniguez, also former HyreCar, as chief financial officer ... LegalShield promotes Emily Rose to president-business solutions and Sean Rooney to senior vice president-broker sales and service.
Alaska Communications hires former Comcast executive Matthew McConnell as president-CEO ... Entertainment company TMB names Joseph Moschella senior vice president-general counsel; Moschella previously was general counsel of Jukin Media, which TMB acquired in 2021 ... Ikotek, IoT original design manufacturer, hires Mathi Gurusamy, former president of Telit Cinterion’s IoT solutions division, as chief operating officer ... Spectra7, supplier of analog semiconductors for broadband connectivity, names its retired former Chief Financial Officer David Mier interim CFO; company previously announced that current CFO Bonnie Tomei will take a personal leave of absence effective Dec. 1 ... Website accessibility platform UserWay promotes Sophia Tupolev-Luz to vice president-communications, and hires Growthspace’s Etay Geller, also former Minute Media, as vice president-product.