NTIA promotes Parul Desai, previously director-Office of Congressional Affairs and FCC, to chief of staff ... Cybersecurity company Sailpoint appoints Gary Nafus, ex-Microsoft, as chief sales officer and promotes Matt Mills to president ... Connectivity provider Lightpath appoints Rachel Stack, ex-Cologix, as chief financial officer ... Josh Finke, ex-Compucom, joins IT company Lumen Technologies as senior vice president-public sector ... Charter communications names Simon Cassels, ex-GoodRx, as senior vice president-chief creative officer ... Network application programming interface platform Shabodi adds SineWave Ventures’ Nikesh Kalra, Henna Business Services’ Asha Keddy, and Tony Thelen, ex-John Deere, to board.
AI firm CoreWeave appoints Chen Goldberg, ex-Google, as senior vice president-engineering and Sachin Jain, ex-Oracle, as COO.
Boston Omaha subsidiary Fiber Fast Homes appoints Randy Cosby, co-founder of Boston Omaha subsidiary InfoWest, as CEO ... Basil Sgourdos retiring as group chief financial officer-financial director of internet companies Naspers and Prosus, effective Nov. 30 ... IoT safety company Blackline Safety appoints Robin Kooyman, ex-Charger Ready Properties, as chief financial officer, effective Sept. 9 ... SaaS platform Semrush appoints Veronique Montreuil, ex-Covetrus, as chief customer and data officer ... Tech provider MelroseINC hires ex-Avid Technology’s JoLaine Hamwey and Joe Vandenberg as directors, respectively, for business development-cloud services and post-production engineering; promotes Zeke Margolis to vice president-cloud solutions ... IoT data company Samsara names former Square CEO Alyssa Henry to board.
Danielle Thumann, ex-Crown Castle, returning to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr’s office as legal adviser ... NARUC selects Tony Clark, Wilkinson Barker, as executive director-elect, effective Oct. 1, to succeed Greg White, retiring Dec. 31 ... Robert Deegan, ex-Array Information Technology, joins Unissant as chief financial officer ... Eric Johnston, ex-Marriott International, joins Comcast’s public policy and digital equity team as executive director-strategic affairs ... Communications and data networking products distributor Graybar names Lauren Baker, ex-Emerson Climate Technologies, as vice president-strategic planning.
Public Knowledge adds Morgan Wilsmann, previously Google fellow at Chamber of Progress, as policy analyst and promotes Lisa Macpherson to policy director and Nicholas Garcia to senior policy counsel ... Global Tech Industries Group appoints Luke Rahbari, previously Equity Armor Investments, as CEO, succeeding David Reichman, retiring ... Technology and services provider Advanced Systems Group hires Kate Sims as vice president-strategic accounts and Joe Marchitto as chief technology officer-strategic accounts; both previously Integrated Media Technologies ... Yanbing Li, previously Aurora, joins security platform Datadog as chief product officer ... Cybersecurity company Cyble appoints Ernest Fung, previously Tokopedia, as chief financial officer ... Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing technology company Edgewater Wireless nominates former Wilan CEO Jim Skippen to board, pending shareholder vote Sept. 5 ... WAN provider Inseego’s board votes to extend Philip Brace’s appointment as executive chairman for two six-month terms.
America’s Public Television Stations’ Lonna Thompson, executive vice president-COO and general counsel, will retire, effective Sept. 1, staying on as consultant ... Connectivity infrastructure provider Alphawave Semi appoints Sameer Ladiwala, ex-Luminar Technologies, as senior vice president-finance/chief accounting officer ... Software development company Provoke Solutions appoints Trace Machina’s Harper Carroll as strategic adviser.
Boston Omaha Broadband promotes Max Meisinger to president-CEO-Broadband Division, succeeding Steve McGhie, remaining as consultant ... Optical networking and cable supplier Proficium hires Brian Patton, ex-Approved Networks, as chief technology officer ... Communications infrastructure provider Bluebird Network adds Travis Noble, previously Unite Private Networks, as chief revenue officer ... Scripps promotes John Cook to vice president-general manager-KTNV-TV Las Vegas, effective Sept. 3.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency promotes Lisa Einstein to chief artificial intelligence officer, new position (see 2408010033) ... Cloud-native wireless core and radio access network solutions provider Axyom.Core appoints Kurt Daniel, ex-Titan.ium Platform, as CEO ... IT company Soroc Technology names Christine Evitt, ex-Compucom Canada, as president, effective Tuesday ... Kape Technologies appoints Ankit Khemka, previously Revolut, as chief marketing officer ... Wayne Lewandowski, ex-Xage Security, joins cybersecurity company Hypori as chief revenue officer ... Cybersecurity company SentinelOne names Stanford adjunct professor Alex Stamos, ex-Meta, as chief information security officer ... Astound Broadband appoints Toni Murphy, ex-Comcast, as executive vice president-COO.
Telecom provider Proadapt promotes Manish Vyas to CEO-managing director ... Cloud services provider Hivelocity appoints Jason Burnett, ex-DataBank, as COO and Charlie Dankner, ex-Equinix, as chief revenue officer ... Sinclair Broadcast Group names Dean Ditmer, previously JNR, vice president-general manager-KATU Portland and KUNP La Grande, both Oregon ... GCI promotes Maureen McCabe Moore to senior vice president-chief customer experience officer ... Hallmark Media names Wondu Dikran, ex-Falkon Entertainment, senior vice president-Hallmark Studios ... Nexstar Media Group appoints IPG’s Ellen Johnson to board, effective Oct. 1.
Jaydee Griffith, previously NTIA, joins ATIS as managing director-Next G Alliance; David Young moves to vice president-technology policy and government relations ... SAP Chief Revenue Officer Scott Russell and Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer Julia White leaving company and executive board, effective Aug. 31; CEO Christian Klein fills Russell’s position in interim, White’s position to be dissolved ... Dual-screen TV company Telly appoints SpotX co-founder and ex-CEO Mike Shehan chief revenue officer ... Cybersecurity company Cyware names Terrence Driscoll, ex-JP Morgan Chase, chief information security officer ... Zehra Akbar, previously Skygrid, joins AI startup Imandra as COO ... Leidos promotes Ron Keesing to chief AI officer ... Chinese carrier- and cloud-neutral internet data center services provider VNET Group appoints David Lifeng Chen, Hongshan CBC Cross-border Digital Fund, to board, succeeding Erhfei Liu, resigning.