Mitel names ServiceMax’s Sophie Ames executive vice president-chief people officer ... Snap adds Sonos CEO Patrick Spence to its board ... Eastern Communications names McKinsey & Co.’s Thomas Alessi vice president-transformation ... Guidepost Solutions, security and technology consultancy, rehires Louis Milione, former Drug Enforcement Administration principal deputy administrator, as president-global investigations and regulatory compliance; Milione was a Guidepost senior managing director 2017-2021... Ad tech company Perion Network names PubMatic’s Kenny Lau chief product officer-advertiser solutions ... Identity security platform Stack Identity adds Amol Kulkarni, former CrowdStrike chief product and engineering officer, and Sachin Aggarwal, former Accurics CEO, to its advisory board, expanding it to eight members ... Sayari, supply chain risk intelligence company, adds former CIA Chief of Staff Kevin Higgins to its advisory board ... Storyhunter, creator management platform, names Shutterstock’s Jamie Elden global CRO and adds him to its board.

Comcast promotes Meena Soleiman to senior vice president-technical operations and engineering, Comcast Cable’s Northeast Division ... Oorbit Gaming and Entertainment names CNBC and MSNBC founder Tom Rogers executive chairman ... Avanade, Microsoft cloud provider, names Karthik Narain, Accenture’s group CEO-technology, board chair, succeeding Emma McGuigan, leaving Avanade board after four years in the role ... SurveyMonkey hires Cloudfare’s Amit Prakash, also ex-Amazon Web Services, as chief marketing officer ... 8x8 names Freshworks’ Bruno Bertini CMO ... Evercore, investment banking advisory firm, adds Goldman Sachs’ Nick Pomponi as a senior managing director-technology group ... Integral Ad Science, media measurement and optimization platform, names Affinity Solutions’ Yossi Almani chief legal officer.

Sinclair Senior Vice President-Technology Mark Aitken, also president of Sinclair’s One Media 3.0 subsidiary, is named SMPTE fellow, will be honored at SMPTE’s 2023 Media Technology Summit Gala next month in Los Angeles ... Cogeco taps Alimentation Couche-Tard’s Valery Zamuner as senior vice president and chief corporate affairs and legal officer, effective Monday ... New York Times Co. hires Paramount Global’s Anthony DiClemente as senior vice president-investor relations, effective Monday ... Roblox, connection and communication platform, adds former WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar to its board ... Inseego, 5G edge cloud solutions company, taps former Absolute Software executive Steven Gatoff as chief financial officer, succeeding Robert Barbieri, leaving Inseego to return to his consulting business ... Lisa Herring, incoming president of Propel Center, innovation and learning hub founded by Apple and Southern Co., named strategic adviser to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona ... Investment bank Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. hires William Blair & Co.’s Scott Mattson and Madison Park Group’s Michael Magruder as managing directors to lead establishment of its new tech vertical.

Nielsen promotes Karthik Rao to CEO, succeeding David Kenny, moving to executive chairman ... Cyber resilience company Semperis adds Chris Inglis, former national cyber director under President Joe Biden, to its strategic advisory board ... Tech investment firm Anzu Partners elects principal Cathryn Paine as partner ... Voiceitt, speech recognition platform for people with speech disabilities, taps Alyson Pace, former Cisco director-strategy, business development and partnerships in its collaboration business, as CEO, succeeding Danny Weissberg, co-founder, who remains a strategic adviser and board member ... Rokt, e-commerce tech company, names BGH Capital’s Terry Bowen president-chief operating officer ... Airlinq, connectivity platform for communication service providers, taps Mobileum’s Vangipuram Kishore as COO ... Grace Koh, formerly of Nokia, who headed the U.S. delegation to the ITU World Radiocommunication Conference in 2019, becomes Ciena’s vice president-government relations … AMC Networks promotes Georgia Juvelis to chief communications officer ... Department of Homeland Security announces Eric Hysen as its first chief AI officer; he also continues to serve as chief information officer.

SBA Communications hires Marc Montagner, current Cogent Communications and Intelsat board member, as its next executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Jan. 1, when current CFO Brendan Cavanagh succeeds Jeffrey Stoops, retiring, as president-CEO; Montagner joins SBA, effective Oct. 17, as executive vice president-finance, before moving into the CFO role ... DLA Piper announces Houston-based partner Christian Ford to head new space exploration and innovation practice … Web3 Foundation taps supervisory board member Fabian Gompf, also former Parity Technologies, as CEO, succeeding Bertrand Perez, moving into an adviser role ... Reidel Communications hires Grass Valley’s Costa Nikols as vice president-global sales enablement, based in Montreal ... Communication services provider Spectrotel names Telarus’ Christopher Whitaker general manager and vice president-mobility ... Barclays names SVB Securities’ Sterling Auty vice chairman, focused on the software sector in its Technology Investment Banking Group ... Hill+Knowlton names Grayling’s Geraldine Schroeder CEO, Germany, and adds her to its global leadership council, effective Oct. 9 ... Ians Research, cybersecurity research and advisory firm, names Gartner’s Mark Clauss chief product officer ... Cineverse, streaming technology and entertainment company, promotes Mark Lindsey to CFO, effective Thursday, succeeding current CFO John Canning, whose employment agreement expired Wednesday.

Digital Media Association hires Graham Davies, ex-Ivors Academy, president-CEO, beginning this fall with plans to relocate from the U.K. to the U.S. … News/Media Alliance names Regan Smith, ex-Spotify, as senior vice president-general counsel … DataDome provider of AI-powered online fraud and bot management, taps Ontinue’s Chris Raniere chief revenue officer … Starz hires Girl Scouts of the USA’s Sofia Chang, also ex-Warner Media, as executive vice president-chief distribution officer … New Motion Picture Association hires: Alivia Roberts, from office of Vice President Kamala Harris, and Katherine Grayson, from office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., both join as directors-federal government affairs; Charlie Schonberger, from National Governors Association, named manager-federal affairs and trade policy, effective Sept. 18; and LinkedIn’s Michael Rodriguez, also former assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, named senior litigation counsel and director-Americas, content protection … Business Wire hires RealNetworks’ Reza Rassool as CTO ... Web3 company Cosmic Wire names Solana Foundation’s Johnny Lee chief commercial officer ... Zenarate, AI simulation training platform, names CometChat’s Dan Mitzner chief marketing officer ... Oxio, telecom-as-a-service company, taps Google Fi’s Glenn Teuber as chief operating officer and Adil Belihomji, former Verizon vice president-technology, as chief technology officer.

Tucows elects Gigi Sohn, executive director, American Association for Public Broadband, to its board ... Semtech, cloud connectivity services provider, hires MKS Instruments' Mark Lin as executive vice president-chief financial officer, succeeding Emeka Chukwu, effective no later than Oct. 4 ... TechBridge, nonprofit specializing in tech training, adds Tonya Bryant, Southern Co. vice president-technology, to its board ... Antelope Enterprise, operator of KylinCloud, livestreaming e-commerce platform in China, adds Boyu Zhang, vice president-strategic development and investor relations, to its board as an executive director.

Science Applications International Corp. adds Dana Deasy, former DOD chief information officer under President Donald Trump, to its board, expanding it to 11 members ... KPMG promotes Steve Chase to vice chair of its new AI and digital innovation group, and names Atif Zaim to succeed Chase as head of its consulting practice; both effective Oct. 1 ... Frontier Technology promotes Chief Financial Officer Jose Hidalgo to president ... New hires at Stability AI, generative AI company: Ozden Onder, ex-Wildlife Studios, as chief people officer; Jordan Valdes, ex-IBM, as vice president-communications and community; Scott Trowbridge, ex-Circle and WeWork, as vice president-business development; and Ben Brooks, ex-Google, Coinbase and Uber, as global head-public policy ... Edison Interactive, digital out-of-home provider, names Magnite’s Allen Dove chief technology officer ... Enghouse Systems, enterprise software provider, adds Magnet Forensics General Counsel Vivian Leung to its board ... Optimum appoints as vice presidents-general managers Kathleen Preston, from Cox Communications, for West Pacific Area, Elton Hart, ex-Comcast Business, for Mid Atlantic Area, and Vic Pascarelli, ex-Comcast,for Northeast Area; also moves Michael Shaffer to vice president-GM, Mid Central Area …Former Flatiron School cybersecurity instructor and solo attorney Joseph Gawlowicz joins Mullen Coughlin as an associate in its incident response practice.

Cogeco names former Bell Canada executive Tim Dinesen senior vice president-chief technology officer ... Chyron, digital broadcast titling and graphics systems provider, hires Pantaflix Technologies' Alain Polgar as senior vice president-sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific ... UPS promotes Bobby Seo to managing director-UPS Korea ... Empower Media names Meta’s Yating Sun executive vice president and head-marketing science, and GroupM’s Art Zambianchi, also ex-Motorola Mobility, chief operating officer ... Shutterfly names Jan Paul Teuwen, ex-Lumileds, senior vice president-chief financial officer, effective Monday, succeeding Mike Eklund, leaving ... Panasas, data solutions company, names Seagate Technology’s Ken Claffey CEO, replacing Tom Shea, staying as COO ... Leidos promotes Amy Smith to senior vice president-government affairs ... Magnachip Semiconductor announces resignation of board member Mel Keating, effective immediately ... Industrial AI company Nanotronics names Eco’s Peter Hopkins president ... Fulex, e-commerce fulfillment company, hires Amazon’s Andrew Guider as director-operations ... Stream Data Centers names former Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jose Ruiz, from Equinix, senior vice president-global accounts and platform strategy, newly created role ... Cyara, customer experience AI platform, names former JPMorgan Chase and Target executive Fred Penteado vice president-revenue strategy and operations ... Cyemptive Technologies, cybersecurity solutions company, taps Vince Dova, former Joint Chiefs of Staff branch chief-cyber policy and capabilities, as vice president-security.

Disney Parks, Experiences and Products names PayPal’s Louise Pentland, also ex-Nokia, chief counsel, effective Sept. 15 ... NTIA moves Sean Conway to deputy chief counsel … Hearst promotes Gerry McGavick to vice president-sales, Hearst Television … AppLovin adds former Pinterest and Twitter executive Todd Morgenfeld to its board ... Otter Products names Berkley Fuller, ex-Apple, chief commercial officer ... Paychex promotes Robert Schrader to senior vice president-chief financial officer, effective Oct. 13, succeeding Efrain Rivera, retiring from those roles effective Oct. 12, remaining senior adviser through 2023 ... Ebook company Legible adds retired HP executive Vyomesh Joshi as a strategic adviser ... SmartBear, software development company, names Tamr’s Melissa Campbell, also ex-Oracle, chief revenue officer ... Foundever, customer experience company, taps Laiye’s Guillaume Laporte as chief AI officer ... Darwinium, digital security and fraud prevention company, names Outseer’s Leah Evanski chief commercial officer ... MixMode, AI cybersecurity company, names ClearData’s Bob Pratt, also ex-Splunk, senior vice president-product ... Data center developer CyrusOne promotes Jim Roche to senior vice president-engineering ... JFrog names Shanti Ariker, ex-Zendesk, chief legal officer ... Casa Systems appoints Cisco’s Colin Kincaid chief product officer and Phil Paro, ex-Tomorrow.io, chief accounting officer … Speedcast names James Feger, from F5, chief technology officer ... TechNet promotes Federal Policy Manager Meghan Pearce to federal policy director.