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.
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.