Scott Agnew replaces Jim Bugel as AT&T president-FirstNet, effective Sept. 1 ... Ryan Mulhall promoted by Governor Kim Reynolds (R) to executive director, Iowa Communications Network... Dan Domenech, American Association of School Administrators, resigns from the USAC board, effective Dec. 31... John Perrino, ex-Stanford Internet Observatory, joins the Internet Society as a senior policy and advocacy expert.
Shenandoah Telecom Vice President-Chief Accounting Officer Dennis Romps departs Sept. 6, with James Volk assuming his responsibilities while continuing as senior vice president-CFO … Public Knowledge announces Annual IP3 Award winners: FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, for President’s Award; Electronic Privacy Information Center’s Caitriona Fitzgerald, Information Policy Award; copyright lawyer Jonathan Band, Intellectual Property Award; and National Digital Inclusion Alliance’s Angela Seifer, IP Award.
Air5 company focused on aligning wired and wireless networks, names Jeff Brown, ex-AutoPylot Technologies and former Verizon, as CEO … Eric Kolte, ex-Blue Origin, joins Titans Space as founding chief development officer ... Samsara cloud company announces Lacework’s Meagen Eisenberg as chief marketing officer … FreeWheel, global tech platform for the TV industry, taps Kris Magel, ex-Samba TV, as head of global agency partnerships … ACA Connects elects board, including new members Jonathan Bullock, Hotwire; Katherine Gessner, MCTV; and John Walburn, Cable One; also appoints Cogeco’s Paul Cowling to replace Leslie Brown of Cogeco’s Breezeline … Walt Disney Co. board names board member James Gorman to chair its succession planning committee.
Iridium promotes Vincent O'Neill to CFO and Timothy Last to executive vice president-sales and marketing, effective Jan. 1; they succeed, respectively, Thomas Fitzpatrick and Bryan Hartin, both retiring year-end … Davis Wright taps patent lawyer Alexander Hadjis, ex-Jenner & Block, as partner … Simon Gooch, ex-Accenture, joins Saviynt, cloud security provider, as senior vice president-expert services … Red River hires General Dynamics’ James Matney as senior vice president-solutions and chief technology officer-Government Technology Services … YourSix cloud security company appoints Ryan Gregory, former Axis Communications, as vice president-sales and growth … AppSentinels application programming interface security platform appoints Quick Heal Technologies’ Vishal Salvi as adviser to board.
Atomic Data and Foundation Technologies tap Chris Heim, ex-AbeTech, as joint CEO … Mynaric optical communications company announces departure of CFO Stefan Berndt von-Bulow for personal reasons; Chief Technology Officer Joachim Horwath and Mynaric Supervisory Board Chairman Bulent Altan assume CFO responsibilities during search ... TrustGrid, secure digital identity ecosystem provider, appoints Brett Kelsey, ex-Reveald, as COO … BearCom, integrator of voice, security and data tech, promotes Charla Crochet to senior vice president-field operations … Satcom Direct hires Tom Phillips, ex-Satcom Global, as regional director-Asia Pacific operations …Datamark provider of interoperable software for public safety location services, hires Tim Jenkins, ex-Commtech Telecom, as chief strategy officer.
Disney Entertainment promotes Almin Karamehmedovic to president, ABC News … L3Harris Technologies’ Fred Helmstetter announces he’s joining Iridium as export compliance director … EliseAI tech company hires Jacob Kosior, ex-Cardinal Group Management, as vice president-client strategy … Super Micro Computer appoints Susie Giordano, ex-Intel, to board.
Noreen Suing, ex-Consolidated Hospitality Supplies, joins fiber broadband provider Millenium as CFO ... Technology consultancy Seidor North America appoints Guillermo Brinkman, previously SAP, as COO.
FreeCast appoints Erik Genrich, ex-Hotwire Communications, as chief revenue officer ... Dan Huberty, ex-Servicenow, joins tech and services firm Pomeroy as chief digital and innovation officer ... Cloud services provider Rootstock Software names Andy Brabender, ex-Gridpoint, as chief revenue officer ... AI-radio access networks technology consortium AI-RAN Alliance appoints Alex Jinsung Choi, previously Deutsche Telekom, as chair.
Brenda Villanueva, ex-The Utility Reform Network, named deputy division chief, FCC Telecommunications and Analysis Division ... Matthew Pearl announces his departure as National Security Council director-emerging technologies and special adviser (see 2408140044) ... Nexstar Media names Scott Weaver, ex-HSA Strategies, senior vice president, effective Sept. 5, to head broadcaster’s first government affairs office ... AI company Uniphore appoints Ravi Mayuram, ex-Luminary Cloud, chief technology officer ... Tamara Nolan, ex-KPMG, rejoins cybersecurity advisory firm MorganFranklin as lead-Cyber and Operational Resilience Practice.
Serverless platform technology company DBOS appoints Jeremy Edberg, ex-Lambda, as CEO and to board ... Canadian mobile carrier Videotron and Freedom mobile promote Jean-Francois Lescadres to senior vice president-CFO and Jean Peladeau to senior vice president-chief marketing officer ... Senior Vice President-CFO Mike Lopez retiring from Ribbon Communications end of year ... FCC announces members of Communications, Equity and Diversity Council including Chair Heather Gate, Connected Nation executive vice president-digital inclusion; Vice Chairs Nicol Turner Lee, director-Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation, and Susan Au Allen, CEO-US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation; Digital Empowerment and Inclusion Working Group Chair Anisa Green, AT&T director-federal regulatory; and Diversity and Equity Working Group Chair Christopher Wood LGBT Tech executive director (see 2408130043) … Telecom fraud prevention company Somos appoints Sinch’s Stacy Graham to advisory board ... Platform, cloud and managed services company Calix names Wade Oosterman, ex-Bell Canada, to board.