Network infrastructure company Vivacity Infrastructure Group names Extenet’s Haran Rashes vice president-general counsel and former Arizona state broadband director Jeff Sobotka vice president-government ... LiveOak Fiber appoints Logix Fiber Networks’ Shane Schilling, also former Grande Communications and Atlantic Broadband, as chief technology officer ... Schneider Electric promotes Javed Ahmad to senior vice president-global supply chain, North America ... GoodRx names former GoDaddy CEO Scott Wagner interim CEO, and moves co-founders Doug Hirsch and Trevor Bezdek to chief mission officer and chairman, respectively ... Moving iMage Technologies removes “interim” tag from William Greene, naming him chief financial officer, effective immediately; he joined as interim CFO in January ... Riedel names Legrand AV’s Sjoerd Klinkers sales manager-Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg region.
ESPN confirms departure of Russell Wolff as ESPN+ executive vice president-general manager … Mimecast, email and collaboration security company, names Tibco’s Jeff Hess its first chief customer officer and Genesys’ Purnima Jandial senior vice president-global operations … Xplore, fiber, 5G and satellite broadband company for rural Canada, names Bell Canada Enterprises’ Rizwan Jamal president-chief commercial officer, effective Monday ... Analog Devices taps former Advanced Micro Devices executive Alan Lee as chief technology officer, replacing former CTO Dan Leibholz, now senior vice president-digital business unit ... Office of the U.S. Trade Representative moves Sushan Demirjian, acting assistant USTR for small business, market access and industrial competitiveness, to that permanent role ... LendingClub adds former Walmart Chief Customer Officer Janey Whiteside of Consello to its board ... Conceal, zero trust web browser isolation technology company, adds Gula Tech Adventures President Ron Gula, also ex-Tenable Network Security CEO, to its board ... Adlumin, managed detection and response service provider, promotes Dan McQuade to CTO ... Cybersecurity company Vade adds former Palo Alto Networks Chief Marketing Officer Rene Bonvanie as an executive board member ... Former Salesforce co-CEO Keith Block launches enterprise software investment firm Smith Point Capital ... Cybersecurity company Inspira Enterprise names Deloitte’s Amit Gandre CEO-Americas.
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell departs, effective immediately, following investigation into complaint of inappropriate conduct with a woman employee ... Telecommunications company CoreNOC adds former CTIA President-CEO Steve Largent as executive strategic adviser ... End-to-end streaming company ViewLift adds former Amazon Prime Video Senior Product Manager Jeff Douglas as chief customer officer ... Autonomous driving company Wayve hires Google’s Silvius Rus as vice president-software ... Mistplay, discovery platform for mobile games, promotes Chief Growth Officer Jason Heller to CEO and adds former Match Group Americas CEO Amarnath Thombre to its board; founder and former CEO Henri-Charles Machalani will remain an active board member ... Cloud networking company Extreme Networks hires Duck Creek Technologies’ Kevin Rhodes as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective May 30 ... Cyber risk management company Outpost24 taps VMware’s Brendan Hogan as chief strategy officer ... Jim Henson Co. names Mythical Entertainment’s Tara Billik vice president-feature films ... Online publisher platform Sovrn hires former Vox Media Chief Operating Officer Chris George as president.
Ad Council names 19 new members to its board, including: Jeremi Gorman, Netflix president-worldwide advertising; Catherine Newman, WWE executive vice president-marketing; Chris Rogers, Instacart chief business officer; Gayle Troberman, iHeartMedia chief marketing officer; Tiffany Xingyu Wang, OpenWeb chief marketing and trust officer; and Clifford Young, Ipsos president-U.S. public affairs ... Digital media measurement platform DoubleVerify hires GoPuff’s Daniel Slotwiner, also former Facebook director-advertising research, as senior vice president-attention ... Chief, private network for connecting women executives, taps Hypebeast’s Sujean Lee as chief experience officer, newly created role ... Simpro, business management software platform, hires Cart.com’s Gary Specter, also former Adobe, as CEO.
Charter Communications promotes Paul Woelk to senior vice president-business planning, cable operations; Jim Nuzzo, executive vice president-business planning and financial planning and analysis, to retire in early 2024 ... Rapid, application programming interface hub provider, promotes Chief Financial Officer Marc Friend to CEO; former CEO Iddo Gino will remain a technical adviser ... Biola University taps Michael Arena, former Amazon Web Services vice president-talent and development, as dean of its Crowell School of Business, effective July 1 ... Mediacom Communications promotes Paul Pecora to group vice president-operations, Coastal region, replacing Doug Frank, retiring... Industrial and electronic product supplier RS elevates interim president Douglas Moody permanently to president-Americas ... AI company Insite AI hires former 7-Eleven Senior Vice President-Merchandising Brooke Hodierne as executive vice president-strategy consulting ... Digital Wave Technology taps Peak Activity’s Sara Meza as senior vice president-chief digital officer ... Lookout, endpoint to cloud security platform, adds SentinelOne adviser Nicholas Warner, also former Cylance, to its board.
Manatt Phelps adds former FTC and DOJ official Paul Luehr, also ex-Faegre Drinker, as a privacy and data security partner in Washington, D.C. ... Telecommunications infrastructure company Harbor Link names Susan Hageman, ex-Assured Communications Advisors, president-business development and sales ... Bill, financial automation software company, hires former Electronic Arts and eBay executive Ken Moss as chief technology officer, succeeding Vinay Pai, retiring ... Autonomous security platform SentinelOne names Elastic’s Sally Jenkins, also former Informatica, VMware and Symantec. chief marketing officer ... Advertising measurement platform Innovid adds Genevieve Juillard, president-Experian Marketing Services and Experian Data Quality in North America, to its board ... New hires at connectivity platform Boomi: Greg Wolfe, ex-Adobe, as chief commercial officer; Rahim Bhatia, ex-SAP, as chief strategy officer; Jessica Soisson, ex-Citrix Systems, as chief accounting officer; Dan McAllister, ex-Salesforce, as senior vice president-global alliances and channels; and Troy Anderson, ex-Google Cloud, as global vice president-commercial market.
Comcast promotes Chris Smith to senior vice president-Greater Chicago region, effective May 8 ... Splunk names Google’s Min Wang, also ex-HP Labs and IBM Research, chief technology officer, and adds HubSpot President-CEO Yamini Rangan to its board ... SoundExchange hires Warner Music Group’s Kathleen Strouse as senior vice president-operations, Cumulus Media’s Doug Cohn as vice president-artist and label relations, and Amanda Carmichael, ex-Phonographic Performance Limited, as vice president-international ... Kaleidescape adds former Christie Digital Systems CEO Jack Kline and Thomas Molter, former Warner Bros. Pictures head-international theatrical distribution, to its board ... Digital analytics platform Amplitude names former Instabase and Microsoft executive Nathaniel Crook chief revenue officer, replacing Matt Heinz, staying until mid-May ... IoT systems provider Semtech adds Greg Fischer, ex-Broadcom, and Paul Walsh, ex-Allegro MicroSystems, to its board ... Comtech names Ursa Space Systems’ Nicole Robinson, also former SES, chief strategy officer ... Gigamon advances Kristi Thiele to vice president-worldwide sales engineering ... Akeyless Security names Palo Alto Networks’ Suresh Sathyamurthy chief marketing officer ... Cision promotes Antony Cousins to executive director-AI strategy.
Stratus Networks names former Skywire Networks President Darren Feder CEO ... Nordstrom taps Walmart’s Jason Morris as chief technology and information officer, effective May 1 ... Periphery, media workflow solutions company, names Seagate Technology’s Seth Cohen vice president-sales, Americas, and Jordan Woods and Lenny Khaitov, both ex-NetApp, senior solutions architects ... Q4, market communications platform provider, names VersaPay’s Keith Reed chief operating officer; Donna de Winter remains chief financial officer while moving her COO responsibilities to Reed ... Investment banking advisory firm Evercore adds Goldman Sachs’ Scott Silverglate as a senior managing director-technology practice in its Menlo Park, California, office ... Empower AI names former McKinsey & Co. partner Paul Harrington chief growth officer ... Digital payments platform CleverCards hires Gaurav Khurana, former Meta head-commerce payment partnerships, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as senior vice president-marketing ... Newly appointed to National Wireless Safety Alliance board of governors: Johnny Crawford, Vertical Bridge executive vice president-tower development; Amanda Freeman, Crown Castle director of safety-tower assets; Leticia Latino-van Splunteran, Neptuno USA CEO; and Jim Tracy, Legacy Telecommunications co-founder.
Alaska Communications names WJW Holdings Managing General Partner Jim McCarley interim CEO; President-CEO Bill Bishop takes health-related leave of absence ... Rogers hires Nutrien’s Michael Webb as senior vice president-chief administrative officer ... AI company SambaNova Systems names Richard Halkett, ex-Amazon Web Services, chief revenue officer, and Danner Stodolsky, ex-Google, senior vice president-cloud ... Accenture adds Unilever CEO Alan Jope to its board, expanding it to 10 members ... Metamagnetics, supplier of RF magnetics solutions to the telecommunications industry, names Chairman Vince Harris to additional role of CEO, and promotes Vice President-Operations Lee Burns to president-chief operating officer ... Alps Alpine North America, manufacturer of electronic components and automotive infotainment system, adds former XL Fleet executive Mike Kenhard as chief technical officer and vice president-engineering ... Threat detection and response platform Securonix names Axonius’ Jerry Raphael chief financial officer.
Viasat names former Verizon Media Group CEO Guru Gowrappan president ... Hasbro hires PlayMonster Group’s Tim Kilpin, also former Activision Blizzard and Disney, as president-toy, licensing and entertainment, effective April 24; Hasbro also names Harley-Davidson’s Gina Goetter chief financial officer, effective May 18; retiring CFO Deborah Thomas will remain an advisor through year's end ... Bitly hires Kaplan North America’s Elisa Watts as chief people officer and Groupon’s Kevin Raheja as vice president-partnerships, and promotes Jackie Cureton to chief diversity officer ... MIT Solve, social impact innovation initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, makes acting Executive Director Hala Hanna permanent ... Lithium-ion battery developer Microvast names Isida Tushe, ex-mPhase Technologies, general counsel and corporate secretary ... IntelePeer, communications automation provider, promotes Gary Starling to chief information security officer ... Groupon taps Pale Fire Capital’s Jiri Ponrt as CFO, succeeding Damien Schmitz ... EnCharge AI, edge-cloud AI developer, names Ram Rangarajan, ex-Intel, senior vice president-product and strategy ... UiPath, enterprise automation software company, adds former Walmart Chief Information Officer Karenann Terrell to its board ... Devtech, digital innovation services company, promotes Jelena Suboticki Berar to vice president-people and culture ... Project44, supply chain visibility platform, names Nubank’s Renee Mauldin chief people officer.