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Montana Public Service Commission elects James Brown chairman, succeeding Bob Lake, term-limited after eight years at the agency; Brad Johnson reelected vice chair; and Brown and Jennifer Fielder join the PSC after being elected to four-year terms, to which Tony O’Donnell was reelected; all those commissioners are Republicans ... At Arizona Corporation Commission, Lea Marquez Peterson (R) elected chair, saying her immediate priorities include helping bring broadband "to rural communities through a broadband transition of the Arizona Universal Service Fund High-Cost Fund"; meanwhile, Marquez Peterson is sworn in for a four-year term, as are new Commissioners Anna Tovar (D) and Jim O’Connor (R); for more on the new members, see our report here.
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Once F5 Networks completes purchase of Volterra "universal edge-as-a-service platform" in approximately $500 million deal, Volterra founder-CEO Ankur Singla "and the Volterra leadership team will join F5 in key management roles" ... Hasbro promotes Kathrin Belliveau to chief purpose officer, newly created role ... ImageWare Systems appoints Jay Lewis, ex-ID Watchdog, chief financial officer ... Software-as-a-service app platform developer Poq advances Chief Technology Officer Jay Johnston to CEO; he succeeds co-founder Oyvind Henriksen, who will remain senior vice president-product strategy ... Hearst Television promotes John Robertson to vice president-distribution.
Five electric cooperatives in Virginia and Maryland start Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Broadband Cooperatives to help bring internet service to "underserved rural areas," with Chairman Casey Logan, CEO of Prince George Electric Cooperative; Chief Operating Officer Brian Mosier; President-CEO Richard Johnstone; Vice Chairman Mike Malandro, CEO of Choptank Electric Cooperative; and Secretary-Treasurer Brian Bates, director at Central Virginia Electric Cooperative; Johnstone and Mosier also remain president-CEO and COO respectively of the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives, from which VMDABC is a spinoff association, a spokesperson tells us.
Dizzion managed desktop as a service provider gets investment from LLR Partners, with the private equity firm's principal Michael Pantilione joining Dizzion board, along with David Reuter, LLR partner ... Cisco appoints former Raytheon CEO John Harris to its board ... At 5G Americas, Barbara Baffer, Ericsson vice president-government and industry relations, elected treasurer.