OpenText names Shannon Bell, ex-Rogers Communications, executive vice president-chief digital officer and adds her to its executive leadership team ... US Electrodynamics names Paul Kaminski, former undersecretary of defense under President Bill Clinton, chairman, and taps former Eutelsat Americas CEO Mike Antonovich as CEO-commercial, and John Stopher, former House Intelligence Committee, as CEO-government ... Barclays hires Morgan Stanley’s Pedro Costa as vice chairman-technology, media and telecommunications M&A, Americas ... Advocado, data-as-a-service platform for advertisers, publishers and media companies, adds former GroupM Chairman-CEO Irwin Gotlieb and former Group W Satellite Communications executive Steven Saslow to its board ... LG Ad Solutions names Zenapse’s Michael Hudes president-CEO and adds him to its board; Chief Operating Officer Adam Sexton relinquishes his acting CEO role ... Provenir, supplier of AI-powered risk decisioning software, taps Builder.ai’s Andres Elizondo, also former Rackspace Technology, as chief financial officer ... Zenlayer, hyperconnected cloud company, names EdgeCast’s Jeff Geiser vice president-customer experience, newly created role ... Chip company Untether AI hires Chris Walker, former Intel corporate vice president-general manager, as president.

SAP names Microsoft’s Walter Sun global head-AI ... Conversational AI company Krista names Paylocity’s Michael Haske CEO, succeeding John Michelsen, remaining on Krista’s board and continuing as chief product officer ... Electric vehicle company Rivian Automotive taps Kjell Gruner, ex-Porsche Cars North America, as chief commercial officer and president-business growth ... Chipmaker Alphawave Semi adds GlobalFoundries Chief Financial Officer David Reeder to its board ... Dollar General promotes Rod West to executive vice president-global supply chain ... Antelope Enterprise, Chinese livestreaming e-commerce platform, adds Sichuan Huanyu Interchange Group CEO Xiaoying Song to its board ... DXC Technology names IBM’s Howard Boville executive vice president and global lead-applications services and AI.

Akin adds Mike Mineiro, ex-House Science, Space and Technology Committee, also former White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as senior counsel in its D.C. telecom, media and technology practice ... Oaklins DeSilva+Phillips, global investment bank specializing in media, marketing and tech, taps Verance’s Richard Glosser, also ex-College Sports Television and Sony Pictures Entertainment, as managing director, effective Sept. 5 ... Ciena, networking systems, services and software company, adds Axcelis Executive Chairperson Mary Puma to its board ... Viavi, provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions for communications service providers, names Global Controller Pam Avent interim chief financial officer, effective Oct. 1, replacing CFO Henk Derksen, leaving Viavi Sept. 30.

Warner Bros. Discovery taps Mark Thompson, former New York Times Co. president-CEO and ex-BBC director-general, as CNN Worldwide chairman-CEO, effective Oct. 9 ... Innovid, converged TV advertising platform, names Smartly.io’s Sarah Ripmaster, also ex-IBM Watson, senior vice president-strategic accounts ... Kanarsys, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging tech company, adds Google Chief Diversity Officer Melonie Parker to its board ... Desktop virtualization company Workspot names Igel’s Brad Tompkins, also ex-Red Hat and Hewlett Packard, president-chief operating officer ... National Park Foundation names Juliet Gilliam, ex-Special Olympics International, vice president-media and entertainment partnerships, newly created role.

Brightspeed promotes Chief Operating Officer Tom Maguire to CEO; current CEO Bob Mudge becomes executive chair; Manny Sampedro hired from Verizon to succeed Maguire as COO; all effective Nov. 1 ... Globalstar names Xcom Labs founder Paul Jacobs, also ex-Qualcomm, CEO, effective immediately, in conjunction with Globalstar’s agreement to license key Xcom technologies (see 2308290003); Jacobs replaces former CEO David Kagan, retiring; Xcom Chief Technology Officer Matt Grob and Chief Scientist Peter Black also join Globalstar, also effective immediately, as will Vice President-Wireless Tamer Kadous and Vice President-Engineering Daaman Hejmadi, effective after they complete a transition period with Xcom ... Yahoo promotes Connie Loizos to TechCrunch general manager and editor-in-chief, succeeding Matthew Panzarino, who remains an adviser ... Infoblox, cloud-enabled networking and security platform, names Palo Alto Networks’ Mukesh Gupta senior vice president-chief product officer ... Dollar Tree hires Diebold Nixdorf’s Jonathan Leiken as executive vice president-chief legal officer and corporate secretary ... Talkdesk names Cisco Security’s Neville Letzerich chief marketing officer ... Bragg Gaming Group names Chairman Matevz Mazij CEO, replacing Yaniv Sherman ... SAP names Siemens Energy’s Gina Vargiu-Breuer chief people officer-labor director and adds her to its executive board, effective Feb. 1, succeeding Sabine Bendiek, leaving SAP “by her own request,” effective Dec. 31 ... Media company Galaxy Racer North America hires Joyce Ajouri, ex-YouTube, as director-operations.

Charter Communications promotes Meg Hall to senior vice president-corporate software … Expel security operations provider names Yonni Shelmerdine, ex-SentinelOne, chief product officer.

Barclays names Goldman Sachs’ Emma Taylor global head-internet coverage and Noom’s Carmen Chan, also ex-Goldman Sachs, a managing director-internet coverage, both in Barclays' technology investment banking business ... Qualys adds Tom Berquist, Cloud Software Group chief financial officer, to its board ... Advertising measurement firm MarketCast names Kantar’s Marisa McMahon head-client service, technology and platforms ... Nebula streaming service names YouTuber Sam Denby chief content officer ... FICO adds Kaleidescape CEO Tayloe Stansbury to its board ... Brother Mobile Solutions hires Honeywell International’s Theo Bielowicz as director-sales ... DigitalOcean, cloud computing platform for startups and small businesses, says Yancey Spruill will depart as CEO and board member when a successor is found, and it names lead independent director Warren Adelman executive chairman, effective immediately.

Fiber internet company Lux Speed promotes Stephanie Pittman to director-project management ... Harvest Group, connected commerce solutions provider and retail broker for Amazon, Costco, Kroger, Sam's Club, Target and Walmart, names GE Lighting’s Sejal Sheth vice president-digital commerce and media ... RiskOptics, cyber risk management company, names Chief Strategy Officer Rob Ellis acting CEO, replacing former CEO-Chief Product Officer Michael Maggio ... Cybersecurity company Cyemptive Technologies names retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jason Huff chief operating officer-security operations ... Thryv Holdings, small business management software provider, promotes Chief Customer Officer Grant Freeman to president, newly created role ... Global media agency Assembly names GroupM’s Greg Shickle its first chief activation officer, Europe.

Telephone and Data Systems adds Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Vicki Villacrez to its board ... Airvine, developer of wireless backhaul system for indoor connectivity, names Dave Robison, ex-Cisco, chief revenue officer ... SoundExchange adds Tino Gagliardi, new American Federation of Music president, to its board, replacing recently retired AFM President Ray Hair ... CISO Global, managed cybersecurity and compliance company, names Gary Perkins, former chief information security officer for the province of British Columbia, as CISO ... Smart eMobility taps Manoj Kohli, ex-SoftBank India, as chairman ... Options Technology, cloud-enabled managed services company, names former Transaction Network Services executive Scott Feagans senior vice president-sales engineering ... Marketing platform Insider adds former Stripe and Google executive Shreyas Doshi to its advisory board ... Chipmaker onsemi adds inventor Christina Lampe-Onnerud, former co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy, to its board, effective Sept. 1 ... Kulicke & Soffa Industries adds Denise Dignam, president of Chemours’ titanium technologies business, to its board ... Cresta, generative AI company, names Gong’s Alex Cramer senior vice president-sales; he was Cresta vice president-sales in 2020 and 2021.

FTC Chair Lina Khan names Henry Liu, from Covington & Burling, director-Competition Bureau, succeeding Holly Vedova, retiring … Diana Moss, ex-American Antitrust Institute, says she joined the Progressive Policy Institute as vice president and director-competition policy … American Arbitration Association names vLex’s Steve Errick, also ex-LexisNexis, senior vice president-chief development officer; Errick also will fill those roles for AAA’s international division, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, focusing on projects on impact of changing technology and AI on alternative dispute resolution ... Cantellus Group, tech advisory firm, adds JoAnn Stonier, Matercard fellow-data, AI and privacy, and Bryce Goodman, chief strategist-AI and machine learning in DOD’s Innovation Unit, as executive advisers.