CTIA announces board changes, including Laurent Therivel, UScellular, as chairman, and Kyle Malady, Verizon Business, as vice chairman, both effective Jan. 1; Mike Finley, Boingo Wireless, as secretary, effective immediately; and Stephen Bye, Ookla, as member ... Kansas telecom provider Twin Valley appoints John Sullivan, previously Charter, as vice president-operations ... Semiconductor provider Lattice announces Corporate Vice President-Controller Tonya Stevens as interim CFO, succeeding Sherri Luther, who resigns and joins Coherent as CFO-treasurer.
IT systems analytics provider Integrated Research hires Ian Lowe, ex-Dacxi Chain, as CEO ... Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare appoints Chirantan Desai, previously ServiceNow, as president-product and engineering ... Data science and AI services provider Blend hires Ernesto Chavarin, ex-Amazon Web Services, as senior vice president-sales, business development, and growth ... Software provider for the broadband industry GoCare appoints Lake Stockdreher, previously ElectriCom, as director-sales, and Kevin Mitchell, previously Alianza, as vice president-marketing; both also become partners.
Mycom OSI, network solutions provider for cloud systems, appoints John Turnbull, previously Turnbray Consulting, as chief revenue officer ... Soohwan Kim, ex-Ingram Micro, joins Webtoon Entertainment as vice president-investor relations ... Vislink Technologies hires Mather Al-Ali, ex-Halo Maritime Defense Systems, as vice president-sales, Middle East and Africa … Cybersecurity provider Contrast Security appoints Faya Peng, previously Splunk, as general manager-application detection and response ... Qualcomm appoints Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Marie Myers to board.
ACA Connects promotes Zamir Ahmed to senior vice president-external affairs and Bill Tortoriello to vice president-technology and policy ... Cerence AI appoints Brian Krzanich, former CDK Global, as CEO-board member, succeeding the departing Stefan Ortmanns … Blue Mantis, provider of digital strategy and services including cybersecurity, advances Jay Martin to chief information security officer … Cybersecurity provider Intel 471 appoints Mark Huebeler, previously with MercuryGate International, as COO and CFO ... Data center solutions provider EdgeConneX names Masahiko Inoue, ex-Aquila Clean Energy, head-Japan ... IT services provider NinjaOne names Joel Carusone, previously Zeno Technologies, as senior vice president-data and AI ... Digital accessibility solutions Level Access appoints Mark Zablan, ex-Emplifi, as CEO, succeeding Tim Springer, remaining on board.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) reappoints Michael La Rosa to the Florida Public Service Commission, effective Jan. 2, subject to state Senate confirmation … Satellite Industry Association hires Madeleine Chang, ex-Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Aerospace Security Project, as policy director …BigBear.ai promotes Carl Napoletano to COO … Salem Media Group announces Jerry Crowley is stepping down at year’s end as vice president/general manager-New York market.
FCC veteran Ira Keltz named agency’s acting chief engineer ... Verizon appoints Santiago Tenorio, ex-Vodafone, chief technology officer and senior vice president-strategy and technology enablement, starting Oct. 28 … FCC Enforcement Bureau names Andy Hendrickson, ex-Verizon, CTO.
CTIA names to board Dave Das, executive vice president-Mobile eXperience Business, at Samsung Electronics America … Charlie Ungashick advanced at Vimeo to chief marketing officer.
WTA announces Gerry Duffy, WTA’s current outside regulatory counsel, is retiring at year's end and serving as regulatory adviser; Stephen Goodman, ex-Butzel Long and ex-FCC, joins organization as regulatory counsel, effective Oct. 16 ... McDonald Hopkins elects attorneys to membership, including Sean Bowen and Meghan Collins, both on data privacy and cybersecurity team … Stratascale cybersecurity services company names Critical Start’s Jordan Mauriello as chief strategy officer and head, as head David Olzak departs company … Oxio telecom-as-a-service platform hires Angela Lim, ex-AT&T, as chief growth officer ... Advanced IT Concepts IT and cyber solutions provider announces Aaron Betz, ex-Empower AI, as chief growth officer.
LeoLabs appoints Karen Dacres, ex-Rebellion Defense, as chief legal officer-corporate secretary ... Comporium communications company promotes Tim Smoak to executive vice president-interim COO.
FCC announcements: Wireless Bureau’s Jeffrey Tignor moves to Office of Communication and Business Opportunities as acting director and Commissioner Anna Gomez hires Cierra Nokes as executive assistant; also, Frederick Giroux, Enforcement Bureau; Thomas Horan, Media Bureau; Kathleen Campbell, Space Bureau; and Ron Repasi, Office of Engineering and Tech, are retiring … FCC announces winners of agency awards: Robert Pavlak and Kamran Etemad for Excellence in Engineering and Steven Kauffman, Jeffrey Ocker, Alexander Simmons and Paul LaFontaine for Excellence in Economic Analysis … Squirro SaaS platform for generative AI appoints Growth Analytics’ Gary Kearns as board chairman.