Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) appoints Cosgrove Law Group founder Joe Cosgrove to Broadband Development Office board of advisers for a term expiring Feb. 1, 2025 … Lumen Technologies taps Amazon Web Services’ Satish Lakshmanan as chief product officer ... Wireless network Really hires Jessie Scelzi, ex-Let's Do This and formerly The Zebra, as chief revenue officer ... Tegna promotes Byron Wilkinson to president-general manager at KVUE Austin, where he was interim general manager ... Streaming tech company Brightcove hires Rapid7's Kathy Klingler as chief marketing officer and Flowcode’s Jim Norton as chief revenue officer, both effective Jan. 8, and promotes David Beck, Brightcove’s current chief strategy and corporate development officer, to newly expanded role as chief operating officer ... OpenWeb names AI Foundation founder Rob Meadows chief technology officer ... JMI Equity, venture capital firm focused on investing in cloud software companies, promotes Maggie Schmitt to partner; she continues as chief financial officer ... BCN, communications technology solutions provider, hires Nitel’s Rich Fisher as a partner sales director ... Cineverse, streaming tech and entertainment company, adds Beech Lane Media Advisors’ Mary Ann Halford, also former Altman Solon, to its board, replacing Bison Finance founder Peixin Xu, retiring.

USTelecom announces Ben Elleson, ex-office of Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., as senior director-government affairs … TDS Telecommunications adds vice president-data management position for Steve Mathesius, who also continues chief information security officer, leading cybersecurity and risk management functions at TDS Telecom and parent company, Telephone and Data Systems … Telecon promotes Executive Vice President-Chief Customer Officer Robert Pothier to president-CEO and adds him to its board ... Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi’s hybrid cloud management subsidiary, names Palo Alto Networks’ Tony Gonnella chief financial officer ... Southern Co. hires Bentina Terry from Southern subsidiary Georgia Power as president-CEO of Southern Communications, with responsibility for leading the Southern Linc and Southern Telecom business units, and Arnab Ghosal as Southern Telecom vice president-chief operating officer in addition to his current role at Alabama Power, another Southern subsidiary, both effective Jan. 1.

Ballard Spahr hires Courtney Adams Thornton, ex-Troutman Pepper, as of counsel, intellectual property, trademarks and copyright, in its Atlanta office … Senate confirms to the U.S. Agency for Global Media's International Broadcasting Advisory Board: Luis Botello, special adviser, International Center for Journalists; Jamie Fly, CEO-Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; Jeffrey Gedmin, Georgetown University senior fellow; Michelle Giuda, CEO-Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University; Kenneth Jarin, partner-Ballard Spahr and also named advisory board chair; and Kathleen Matthews, former Marriott International chief communications-public affairs officer ... Hewlett Packard Enterprise hires HP Inc.’s Marie Myers as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Jan. 15; Jeremy Cox, interim CFO since August, will return full time to his roles as senior vice president-corporate controller and chief tax officer, reporting to Myers.

Fetch, rewards app and consumer-engagement platform, hires former Google, Waze, TikTok and Epic Games executive Dan Brough as general manager-agencies, newly created position.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr's policy adviser Greg Watson named chief of staff, succeeding Ben Arden, who returns to Media Bureau; Commissioner Geoffrey Starks’ legal adviser Morgan Bodenarain departs to become policy director-counsel to Congressional Black Caucus; FCC staff retirements: Jeff Tobias, Wireless Bureau; Steve Jones and Stanley Lyles, Office of Engineering and Technology; Penny Blalock, Gloria Conway and Janice Wise, Media Bureau; Eliot Greenwald and Gayle Teicher, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; and Larry Shields and MaryKay Mitchell, Office of Managing Director ... Google Fiber promotes Vice President of Product John Keib to company’s first chief technology and product officer.

Senate confirms former National Security Agency Executive Director Harry Coker as national cyber director on 59-40 Tuesday vote (see 2307250067) ... Pillsbury promotes Jessica Nyman to partner, communications …. Caveonix, platform for hybrid multicloud governance, compliance and security management, appoints Zscaler’s Aloysius Boyle CEO, succeeding Kaus Phaltankar, who transitions to chief strategy officer-board chairman … The Arena Group tech platform and media company terminates the employment of CEO Ross Levinsohn, and names majority owner Manoj Bhargava interim CEO; Levinsohn's termination follows last week's firing of Chief Operating Officer Andrew Kraft, Media President Rob Barrett and corporate counsel Julie Fenster.

TechNet hires PF Consulting’s Patrick Fleming, also ex-Republican House aide, as director-federal policy and external affairs … Summit Ridge Group appoints to its valuation and technology teams Kevin McElroy, ex-Crowe, as director and Yagnik Mehta, ex-New York University Stern School of Business, as analyst ... GlobalFoundries appoints Silicon Labs Chief Financial Officer John Hollister as CFO, effective Feb. 5; Silicon Labs announces Chief Accounting Officer Mark Mauldin will be named interim CFO when the “handover” is completed by Feb. 2, while search is underway for Hollister’s permanent replacement.

Crown Castle announces CEO Jay Brown is retiring, effective Jan. 16; board member Anthony Melone to become interim CEO during replacement search (see 2312080042) ... Spotify to “part ways” with Chief Financial Officer Paul Vogel, effective March 31; it launches “external search” for his successor, and in the interim names Ben Kung, vice president-financial planning and analysis, to “take on expanded responsibilities to support the company’s realignment of its financial leadership team” ... Commvault promotes Anthony Anzevino to senior vice president-Americas field organization ... Analog Devices adds Stanford University economist Peter Henry to its board, expanding it to 13 members.

Davis Wright adds Gerald Stein, a former attorney in the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, as a partner in its New York office ... Telecommunications Association of Michigan taps Consumers Energy’s Michael Rampe, also formerly with the Miller Canfield law firm, as its next general counsel, replacing Michael Holmes, moving to new role as legal adviser ... Verizon hires Leslie Berland, ex-Peloton and ex-Twitter, as chief marketing officer, effective Jan. 9.

Comtech hires former iDirect Government CEO John Ratigan as its first chief corporate development officer ... SkyePoint Decisions, cybersecurity solutions provider to the federal government, promotes Heather Newlin to chief strategy officer ... PayPal hires Fiserv’s Suzan Kereere as president-global markets, effective Jan. 1 ... Disney promotes Tracy Underwood to ABC Signature president … Gallup rehires William Kruse, CFA Institute deputy general counsel, as general counsel; he's Gallup's former senior counsel-public sector division ... American Weekend Entertainment adds ConroyCo Ventures CEO Kevin Conroy to its advisory board.