Akin adds former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, as a senior consultant in its D.C. office ... Changes to Cogeco’s leadership roles, effective Sept. 1 with the combining of the U.S. and Canadian telecommunications businesses into a single North American organization: Sean Brushett to chief operating officer; Nancy Audette to senior vice president-growth initiatives; Marie Ginette Lepage to senior vice president-transformation; and Paul Cowling joins Cogeco July 2 from Xplore as chief legal and corporate affairs officer ... Token, authentication tech provider, hires Stanley Black & Decker’s Robert Osterwise, also former AT&T, as chief technology officer, and Tim Tonges, ex-Great Northern Consulting, as chief revenue officer, and adds them both to its executive leadership team ... Life360, family connection and safety company, taps former Lyft, Instagram, Facebook and Rivian executive Justin Moore as chief technology officer.

National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners announces Robert Cain, ex- Washington Gas Light associate legal counsel, as assistant general counsel … Google Fiber names Dataminr’s John Abbot as company’s first chief financial officer … Qualtrics, cloud-native software platform, hires Vimeo’s Lynn Girotto, also former Microsoft, as chief marketing officer ... Fastly, global edge cloud platform, adds Imperva’s Scott Lovett, also former Akamai, McAfee and Cisco, as chief revenue officer, effective June 3 ... GTT Communications appoints Mia Martuscelli, ex-American Tower, as senior vice president-channel chief, indirect channels business-the Americas … Salem Media Group names Christian Kligora, ex-Marketron, as its new West region digital sales director.

Entertainment Software Association Foundation appoints Sue Madden, former director of the Gannett Foundation for the USA Today Network, as executive director ... Prelude Security, threat exposure management platform, hires Josha Stella, ex-Trellix, as vice president-cloud security ... Skyhigh Security taps Ken Schock, ex-Oomnitza, as chief revenue officer, and promotes Thyaga Vasudevan to executive vice president-product.

FCC announcements: Sara Rahmjoo named policy adviser and confidential assistant to Commissioner Nathan Simington; Douglas Young from the Office of Engineering and Technology and Leo Cirbo from the Denver field office retiring … NJ PBS operator Public Media NJ adds to board Natalya Johnson, senior counsel at Johnson & Johnson, and Andy Tsao, Audible chief product and analytics officer.

Information Technology Industry Council appoints Sean Murphy, consultant to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, as executive vice president-policy, effective in June … E.W. Scripps elevates Robin Davis to senior vice president-chief distribution officer, effective immediately; she was interim head-distribution since February ... Blackbaud hires Tom Barth, ex-Akamai Technologies, as head-investor relations ... Electrosoft Services, cybersecurity and enterprise modernization firm, hires Jason Ballah, ex-TekSynap, as vice president-DOD programs ... Newly elected to Xerox board: John Bruno, Xerox president-chief operating officer; Tami Erwin, former Verizon Business Group executive vice president-group CEO; Priscilla Hung, former Guidewire Software president-chief operating officer; Edward McLaughlin, Mastercard president-chief technology officer; John Roese, Dell Technologies global chief technology officer; and Amy Schwetz, Flowserve senior vice president-chief financial officer ... TrustPoint, developer of next-generation global navigation satellite system products and services, adds Ascension Partners founder Charles Beames, also former Vulcan Aerospace president, as executive chairman ... BAE Systems adds former National Reconnaissance Office Director Betty Sapp to its board ... Microdisplay company Kopin announces Scott Anchin's plans to vacate his board seat, effective May 31, because his new employment agreement with another company requires him to relinquish all outside board roles.

VodafoneZiggo hires former Sky executive Stephen van Rooyen as CEO, succeeding Jeroen Hoencamp, retired; Chief Financial Officer Ritchy Drost will be interim CEO until van Rooyen’s arrival in September ... MCE Systems, software and tech provider for mobile operators, taps strategic adviser Jim Hudak, also a former executive at Microsoft, Accenture and Intel, as chief strategy officer ... Sangoma Technologies, cloud-based communications-as-a-service solutions provider, adds Monica Walton, ex-Centersquare and Lumen Technologies, as chief revenue officer ... Horizon3.ai, AI-powered cybersecurity solutions provider, hires Erick Dean, ex-PagerDuty, as vice president-product management and Drew Mullen, ex-HYPR, as vice president-revenue operations.

Cybersecurity company Sophos moves interim CEO Joe Levy to permanent post and taps Imperva’s Jim Dildine as chief financial officer … GVTC Communications, fiber optics communications provider, elevates Josh Pettiette, vice president-product, business development and strategic planning, to president-CEO, effective July 1, following retirement of current President-CEO Ritchie Sorrells ... SambaNova Systems, chipmaker for generative AI, adds founding Chairman Lip-Bu Tan, also former Cadence Design Systems CEO, as executive chairman ... Infinera optical networking and semiconductors company announces Regan MacPherson, ex-SunPower, as chief legal officer-corporate secretary, succeeding David Teichmann.

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel appoints Jayne Stancavage, vice president-policy and regulatory affairs, as chair of agency’s World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee and Kimberly Baum, Eutelsat vice president-spectrum engineering and strategy, as vice chair … Perplexity AI company names Emil Michael, former Uber chief business officer; Rich Miner, ex-Google; and Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft CEO-advertising and web services, as strategic advisers … Cirrus Logic announces resignation of Chief Financial Officer Venk Nathamuni, and names Principal Accounting Officer Ulf Habermann interim CFO, effective with Nathamuni’s Friday departure ... AEG Presents promotes Senior Vice President-Venue Operations Nick Spampanato to chief operating officer-venues ... Box adds Epicor Software CEO Steve Murphy to its board, replacing John Park as investor KKR’s board designee ... SIP Forum elects Iconectiv Chief Technology Officer Steve Tang and Numeracle General Counsel Keith Buell to board.

MPA announces Jesse Martin, former senior director-BSA |The Software Alliance, as senior vice president-associate general counsel, content protection and legal affairs … Anthropic AI safety and research company taps Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, also ex-Artifact, as chief product officer … National CineMedia taps former PHD Media U.S. CEO Catherine Sullivan, also ex-Omnicom Media Group, as president-sales, marketing and partnerships ... AiOla, AI-powered enterprise speech recognition platform, hires former Wix, Cisco and Intel executive Alon Peleg as chief operating officer ... VisualVault, cloud-based enterprise content management platform, names Deepak Vedarthan, ex-Pegasystems, as vice president to lead its professional services organization ... Saviynt, provider of cloud-native identity and governance platform solutions, hires former Gartner identity and access management analyst Henrique Teixeira as senior vice president-strategy ... Red River, tech transformation company for government and enterprise customers, names Concetta Yates, ex-SS&C Blue Prism, head-data analytics and AI ... Wireless Infrastructure Association appoints Fullerton CEO Kelly Lazuka and APC Towers President-CEO Daniel Agresta to board … AST SpaceMobile to appoint AT&T Head-Network Chris Sambar to its board as part of new AT&T/AST commercial agreement to bring first space-based broadband network direct to “everyday” cellphones.

Ulas Karademir, ex-RealityOS, returns to videogame developer and publisher IO Interactive, becoming chief technology officer ... Sterling Infrastructure promotes Vice President-Finance Sharon Villaverde to chief financial officer-chief accounting officer, succeeding Ron Ballschmiede, remaining executive vice president until his planned retirement later this year ... Digimarc taps Carle Quinn, ex-Workato, as chief people officer ... Ninjio, cybersecurity awareness training company, names Jon Dion, ex-AuditBoard, chief revenue officer ... SmartBear, software development company, hires Allego’s Amy Cohn as chief people officer ... Upstream Security, cybersecurity detection and response platform for connected vehicles and IoT, appoints former Gartner executive partner Toshiya Sato, also ex-Fujitsu, as president-Japan ... Fortune Live Media hires Kristin Stoller, ex-Forbes, as editorial director.