Former FCC Media Bureau Deputy Chief Michelle Carey joins Charter Communications as vice president-policy … Unisys elects former John Wiley & Sons Chief Financial Officer John Kritzmacher to its board ... Smadex, Entravision’s brand advertising platform, names Liftoff’s Phil Gontier, also ex-Twitter, chief revenue officer ... News Corp appoints Emma Tucker from The Sunday Times next editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, effective Feb. 1, succeeding Matt Murray, who will take on new projects in a senior role at News Corp, effective March 1, reporting to CEO Robert Thomson ... New York Times Executive Vice President-CFO Roland Caputo plans to retire in 2023, will remain in the role until successor is identified ... St. Joseph Communications’ Duncan Clark returns to Postmedia Network as chief content officer, effective Jan. 16 ... Davis+Gilbert promotes Andrew Edelen, Paavana Kumar, Samantha Rothaus and Lisa Segal-Bloom to partners, effective Jan. 1 ... Yield Engineering Systems, manufacturer of process equipment for semiconductor advanced packaging, names Yee Ching Wong, ex-Veeco, vice president-business development, Asia Pacific ... Enablement platform Seismic adds former CrowdStrike Chief Marketing Officer Johanna Flower to its board ... Marketing communications agency The Bliss Group names Eastend Marketing’s Melissa Stone vice president-head of digital media.
Imax China names Creative Artists Agency's Daniel Manwaring CEO, effective Jan. 9, succeeding interim CEO Jiande Chen, who will return to his full-time role as vice chairman ... Survey Monkey parent company Momentive taps Acorns’ Rich Sullivan, also former DreamWorks Animation and Twitter, as chief financial officer ... Booz Allen adds retired U.S. Army Cyber Commanding Gen. Stephen Fogarty as a senior executive adviser ... Mobile communications services provider Kaleyra announces intention of CEO Dario Calogero to step down and move to chief strategy officer, effective with the appointment of his successor; Kaleyra also adds former Nitro Software CFO Kathy Miller and ex-Alorica CFO Karin-Joyce Tjon to its board, expanding it to eight members ... Customer data science company Dunnhumby names former Nielsen Catalina Solutions CEO Matt O’Grady president-Americas ... KPS Capital Partners promotes Rahul Sevani to partner ... Autonomous driving technology company TuSimple appoints Grindr Chairperson James Lu to its board ... Wireless connectivity licensor Ceva promotes Gweltaz Toquet to chief commercial officer, effective with Dec. 31 departure of Executive Vice President-Worldwide Sales Issachar Ohana.
Global Semiconductor Alliance names Marvell Technology CEO Matt Murphy its new chair ... Contract manufacturer Sanmina adds Bramshill Investments Chief Strategy Officer David Hedley to its board ... Digital marketing agency Envisionit names Planck’s Sarah Caputo, also former Allstate, chief operations officer ... IoT platform LocatorX names Chris Janko, ex-Celonis, senior vice president-sales ... Collaborative commerce platform Innoviti Technologies hires Debashree Basu, former Intel head-corporate communications for India and South Asia, as senior vice president-marketing and communications, Innoviti India ... Haivision Systems names Synamedia’s Jean-Marc Racine chief product officer effective Jan. 2 ... Helios Technologies taps Welbilt’s Lee Wichlacz as president-electronics, newly created position ... World Film Industry Conference elects Haige Wang as chairman for a four-year term; Wang, a representative of Macau and chairman of the Aollywood Film Workers Association, is the first Chinese representative elected as conference chairman.
Sinclair promotes Scott Shapiro to executive vice president-corporate development and strategy ... Alpha and Omega Semiconductor promotes President Stephen Chang to CEO, effective March 1, when current Chairman-CEO Mike Chang becomes executive chairman ... Diebold Nixdorf advances Ilhami Cantadurucu to executive vice president-global retail, effective Jan. 1, replacing Hermann Wimmer, leaving ... Zoomd Technologies names Ido Almany, ex-American Express, CEO to succeed Ofer Eitan, who previously announced he was stepping down, but will remain a board member ... Zebra Technologies promotes Chief Product and Solutions Officer Bill Burns to CEO and adds him to its board, effective March 1, when current CEO Anders Gustafsson becomes executive chair ... Newly appointed to QualTek board: former Lucent and Global Crossing CFO John Kritzmacher; Brightstar Capital Partners’ Bruce Roberson; and ProTrans Holdings CFO and Chief Human Resources Officer Cielo Hernandez; they replace former board members Jigisha Desai, Sam Totusek and Sam Chawla ... Data protection company Veeam names Gigamon’s Larissa Crandall vice president-global channel and alliances ... ACA Connects promotes Brian Hurley to chief regulatory counsel.
Hiring software company Greenhouse names former Broadcom Associate General Counsel Jung-Kyu McCann its first chief legal officer; hires Kristina Salen, ex-Etsy, as chief financial officer; and appoints former Deloitte executive Emily Rollins to its board ... AI digital advertising platform Kerv Interactive promotes Jay Wolff to chief revenue officer, and hires Creed Pettit, former TikTok media and entertainment vertical sales leader, to replace Wolff as senior vice president ... Consumer goods company Thrasio names former Walmart executive Kunal Thakkar chief supply chain officer ... StratCap Securities hires former Adobe executive Hunter Allen as senior vice president-external distribution strategy ... Gaming accessories maker Turtle Beach adds Julia Sze, former chief investment officer for Wells Fargo Family Wealth Group, to its board, expanding it to nine members ... SpotOn names former Square and Google executive Bryan Solar chief product officer; founder and former CPO Doron Friedman assumes newly created role of chief innovation officer ... Boomi, intelligent connectivity and automation platform, names former Adobe executive Steve Lucas CEO, succeeding David Meredith, leaving ... Pison Technology, supplier of neural biosensors for smartwatches, taps former Analog Devices executive John Croteau as CEO; co-founders Dexter Ang and David Cipoletta become chairman and chief technology officer, respectively ... Strategic intelligence company Strider Technologies adds former Defense Department official and ex-Symantec CEO Michael Brown to its board.
Wilson Sonsini names Lester Ang (corporate practice), Haley Bavasi (privacy and cybersecurity practice) and Robert Broderick (corporate practice) among 18 new partners-elect, their promotions effective Feb. 1 ... International Electrotechnical Commission’s U.S. National Committee elects CTA Vice President-Standards Programs Veronica Lancaster as its new president, succeeding UL’s Kevin Lippert, president since 2019 ... Eastern Communications names Piper Sandler’s Ryan Veach vice president-corporate development ... Fastly hires Cisco’s Puja Jaspal, also former Visa and Google, as chief people officer ... Threat detection platform Secuonix names Ivanti’s Nayaki Nayyar CEO and board member; founder and former CEO Sachin Nayyar (no relation) becomes executive chairman ... Open source data platform Redis names Five9 CEO Rowan Trollope its next CEO, effective Feb. 1, replacing Ofer Bengal, who will become chairman ... Align Precision hires Boeing’s Mark Cherry as CEO, succeeding Andy Spiering, remaining adviser during transition.
Sinclair subsidiary Diamond Sports Group names former NBC Sports Regional Networks President David Preschlack CEO; Preschlack, a member of Diamond’s board of managers since May, also is former NBC Sports Group executive vice president-content strategy ... LegalShield hires ex-Poly Chief Operating Officer Warren Schlichting, also former Sling TV president, as CEO ... Commvault adds Verizon Senior Vice President Shane Sanders to its board ... Board of security products and services company Allegion elects longtime board member Kirk Hachigian its chairman, effective Jan. 1, succeeding David Petratis, retiring, effective Dec. 31 ... In-space infrastructure services company Momentus announces resignation of Chief Financial Officer Jikun Kim, effective Jan. 6, successor to be named later ... Project Liberty nonprofit focused on digital governance names former World Economic Forum executive Martina Larkin its first CEO.
Ribbon Communications names Juniper Networks’ Dan Redington executive vice president-sales, Americas, succeeding Steven Bruny, retiring in early 2023 ... Astra Space moves product engineering executive Giovanni Greco to newly expanded role in charge of launch system delivery; program management executive Jonathan Donaldson now accountable for leading Astra spacecraft engine delivery; Benjamin Lyon resigns as chief engineer and executive vice president-operations and engineering ... Opendoor Technologies, e-commerce platform for residential real estate transactions, promotes Chief Financial Officer Carrie Wheeler to CEO, moving co-founder and CEO Eric Wu to new role as president-marketplace; Opendoor also adds Wheeler to its board, expanding it to nine members, and names Chief Accounting Officer Christy Schwartz interim CFO; President Andrew Low Ah Kee resigns, will remain advisor through Q1.
Nexstar Media Group names former Turner Broadcasting executive Michael Strober, Topwater Advisory Group founder, executive vice president-chief revenue officer, effective Jan. 2 ... UScellular adds Chief Financial Officer-Treasurer Douglas Chambers and TDS Telecom CEO James Butman to its board, effective Jan. 1 ... EchoStar says Pradman Kaul will retire as Hughes Network Systems president at year-end, but will remain on the board, and promotes Paul Gaske to chief operating officer, effective Jan. 1 ... Fiber-based broadband provider Accelecom names Zayo Group’s Brad Kilbey CEO, succeeding departed David Flessas ... Lattice Semiconductor adds Lam Research’s Douglas Bettinger to its board ... Contentsquare names Ford Senior Vice President-Digital Shashidhar Hiremath, also former Verizon, one of 10 members on its new advisory board ... Electric vehicle charging platform Wallbox hires Google’s Myriam Lhermurier Boublil. as chief communications and public affairs officer, and Procter & Gamble’s Javier Riano as chief marketing officer.
Fiber Broadband Association names Frontier’s Marissa Mitrovich, also former Verizon, vice president-public policy, effective Jan. 4 ... Arm adds former Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs and Rosemary Schooler, former Intel corporate vice president-general manager, data center and AI sales, to its board ... Telstra names Zayo Group’s Katy Greenfield vice president-customer solutions, Americas ... 8x8 appoints Chief Financial Officer Samuel Wilson interim CEO, succeeding terminated Dave Sipes; Senior Vice President-Finance Kevin Kraus named interim CFO; Laurence Denny, former chief compliance officer, deputy general counsel and assistant corporate secretary, promoted to chief legal officer and corporate secretary, effective Dec. 9, succeeding Matthew Zinn, resigning to accept a chief legal officer position in an unrelated industry ... Emerson names Peter Zornio chief technology officer, adding him to its Office of the Chief Executive; he previously was CTO for Emerson’s automation solutions business ... Synopsys recruits Zendesk’s Shelagh Glaser as CFO, effective Friday; current CFO Trac Pham, who previously announced his planned retirement, will remain with the company through December.