Identiv, digital security and identification verification company, taps Avery Dennison’s Kirsten Newquist as president-IoT solutions; she becomes CEO, effective with Identiv’s Q3 closing of its Vitaprotech security solutions company acquisition ... Skydweller Aero, space telecom company, hires former SpaceX and Impulse Space executive Barry Matsumori as president-chief operating officer ... Channel V Media, communications strategy and PR firm, expands its content marketing practice, adding Gabriella Bock, from Rethink Retail, as director-content.

The Daily Beast taps former Disney ABC Television Group President Ben Sherwood as publisher-CEO and Joanna Coles, ex-Hearst Magazines, as chief creative and content officer under their new “strategic partnership” agreement with Daily Beast parent IAC ... Digicel Group taps Marcelo Cataldo from Tigo Colombia as CEO, effective May 1; Maarten Boute, interim CEO since January, will return to his role as group chief operating officer ... Market research company Toluna hires Kantar’s Lucia Moir as chief operations officer, effective May 1, and promotes Priyanka Sarkar to chief research officer, adding them both to its executive leadership team ... Siemens Government Technologies taps Elizabeth Larson from Siemens Industry as chief financial officer.

Crown Castle appoints Steven Moskowitz, ex-Centennial Towers, president-CEO and adds him to its board; interim President-CEO Anthony Melone becomes special adviser to Moskowitz until May 31 ... Automotive tech company Luminar hires former Lyft, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon executive David Foster as executive vice president-engineering and Meta’s John Pinette as senior vice president-communications ... Xerox nominates candidates for election as new board members at May 22 annual meeting: Jabil CEO Kenny Wilson; Flowserve Chief Financial Officer Amy Schwetz; Dell Technologies Global Chief Technology Officer John Roese; Mastercard President-CTO Edward McLaughlin; former Guidewire Software President-Chief Operating Officer Priscilla Hung; former Verizon Business Group CEO-Executive Vice President Tami Erwin; and Xerox President-COO John Bruno ... Beacon Global Strategies, strategic advisory firm focused on global public policy, government procurement and geopolitical risk analysis, expands its Indo-Pacific practice, adding Meghan Harris, ex-GlobalFoundries, as senior vice president, and Ann Kowalewski, ex-House Foreign Affairs Committee staffer, as associate vice president.

Sinclair appoints Mike Palmer, assistant vice president-media management, as its representative on the Entertainment ID Registry board for a one-year term ... Circles, SaaS platform targeting the telco industry, hires Dish Network’s Kannan Alagappan as chief technology officer ... Quad Investors Network, charitable initiative to promote tech development in the Indo-Pacific region, adds Nishant Batra, Nokia chief strategy and technology officer, to its advisory board ... Griffin Gaming Partners, venture capital firm focused on gaming, adds Striker Entertainment founding partner Russell Binder as a venture partner and IP adviser ... Keyfactor, identity security platform, names Scott Meyerhoff, ex-EmployBridge, chief financial officer ... Talkdesk hires UiPath’s Munil Shah, also former Microsoft, as chief technology officer ... Phoji, developer of customized emojis for digital and mobile marketing communications, adds Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, former vice president-general manager of Snap’s augmented reality platform, to its board, pending shareholder approval at July annual meeting; Papamiltiadis also is former Meta vice president-platform partnerships.

Vivacity Infrastructure Group, provider of communications infrastructure services, names Christopher Rabii, ex-FiberLight, president-CEO … TollBit, AI content licensing platform, adds Campbell Brown, former Meta vice president-global media partnerships, as a senior adviser ... Qubrid AI, generative AI company, adds Google’s Ujjwal Rajbhandari, also former Dell, as chief technology officer and co-founder ... Internet company Expereo promotes Chief Revenue Officer Ben Elms to CEO, succeeding Irwin Fouwels who moves to executive chairman, both effective May 1 ... Brightcove, streaming tech company, hires EverQuote’s John Wagner as chief financial officer ... Cyware, threat intelligence management platform, taps former High Wire Networks Chief Revenue Officer Stephan Tallent as head-managed security service providers program ... Qurate Retail Group promotes Bill Wafford to chief administrative officer in addition to his current role as CFO ... Billy Boozer, who left as Truth Social chief product officer in 2022, launches new company, Letr, billing it as “a censorship-resistant alternative to Substack” ... Wipro advances Malay Joshi to CEO, Wipro Americas 1 Strategic Market Unit, succeeding Srini Pallia, now Wipro CEO-managing director (see 2404080025); Malay will also join Wipro's executive board.

Harmonic promotes Nimrod Ben-Natan, senior vice president-general manager, broadband business, to president-CEO to succeed retiring Patrick Harshman, effective June 11 ... Backlight, media and entertainment software provider, hires Mosaic Group’s Kathleen Barrett, also former Vimeo, as CEO ... WorldVue, provider of video, digital infrastructure and wireless connectivity services, adds Chris Coles, ex-C&W Networks, as chief business development officer ... Daily newsletter 1440 taps former Time executive Michelle Denhart as vice president-strategy and brand ... C3 AI, enterprise AI application software company, adds outgoing Fortune Media CEO Alan Murray to its board, effective May 1; Fortune announces Chief Strategy Officer-Chief Financial Officer Anastasia Nyrkovskaya as CEO, succeeding Murray, who's departing at the end of April ... Publishers Clearing House Media names Roey Franco, ex-Firefly, chief product officer ... Captivate, news and entertainment network, rehires its former Senior Vice President-National Sales Leigh Lowery from Outfront Media as chief revenue officer.

Radcom, provider of 5G-ready cloud-native network intelligence for telecom operators, names Chief Operating Officer Hilik Itman interim CEO; Guy Shemesh departs as CEO for personal reasons ... Garmin announces Andrew Etkind to step down as general counsel, effective July 1, will continue as vice president and secretary; Josh Maxfield is promoted to vice president-general counsel and assistant secretary ... Wipro promotes Srini Pallia to CEO and managing director, succeeding Thierry Delaporte, departing ... Bragg Gaming Group announces resignation of Chief Financial Officer Ronen Kannor, effective June 3 ... A-Lign, cybersecurity compliance company, moves Michael Branca to CFO; he was interim CFO since rejoining the company in Q4 ... Voyager Space hires Neeraj Gupta, ex-Sierra Space, as chief strategy officer.

Fortune Media taps former Scissero interim CEO Georgene Huang as general manager-Fortune Analytics, new business unit dedicated to Fortune 500 lists and rankings ... IonQ, quantum computing company, hires PagerDuty’s Stacey Giamalis, also former Wilson Sonsini, as chief legal officer-corporate secretary ... Teradata, cloud analytics and data platform for AI, promotes Richard Petley to chief revenue officer, succeeding Todd Cione, leaving the company ... Brian Weeden leaves Secure World Foundation to become Aerospace Corp. Center for Space Policy and Strategy systems director-policy and regulatory.

NAB announces Nandu Machiraju, a former partner at Baker & McKenzie, as senior vice president-deputy general counsel … Ericsson appoints Greta Lundeberg, ex-Boeing, as vice president-head, government and policy advocacy, Americas … Allegro MicroSystems appoints Jennie Raubacher, former Wells Fargo managing director, to its board … Spotify hires Saab’s Christian Luiga, also former Telia, as chief financial officer, effective in Q3, and appoints Vice President-Financial Planning and Analysis Ben Kung as interim CFO ... Talkdesk promotes Miles Ennis to senior vice president-worldwide sales ... Digimarc hires George Karamanos, ex-Zip, as chief legal officer ... Twilio announces retirement of board member Byron Deeter before the company’s 2024 annual meeting, reducing the board’s composition to nine members.

Cambium Networks, wireless networking infrastructure solutions provider, taps Jacob Sayer, ex-Sensata Technologies, as chief financial officer, effective Monday ... Connected Television Group hires Steven Spear, ex-Direct Sports Network, as head-growth, newly created role ... VersusGame, AI-powered interactive content company, appoints Narrative Thread's Scott Donaton, also ex-Hulu, as chief marketing officer and Elliot Solomon, ex-Disney, Snap and Unity Technologies, as vice president-business development ... Cyware, threat intelligence management platform, adds former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to its advisory board ... Connectly, conversational AI commerce company, hires OmniChat’s Viviane Campos as head-sales ... Glassbox, digital experience analytics provider for web and mobile applications, taps Michelle Suzuki, ex-Instructure, as chief marketing officer ... Vision & Voice, nonprofit dedicated to women cybersecurity executives, names 14-member advisory board, including Kim Sanders, chief-critical infrastructure visibility strategy at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Valerie Abend, Accenture global cyber strategy lead-security ... Kayhan Space names Mark Mueller, ex-DOD, vice president-government growth … Bluebird Network promotes Chris Melloway to director-system solutions engineering and sales support … With Shentel’s completion of its acquisition of Horizon, it announces the latter’s head of commercial sales, Glenn Lytle, as senior vice president-commercial sales for the combined business ... EShare appoints Niki Sotiropoulou, ex-viva.com, chief marketing officer.