Neustar taps Brian Kober, ex-Komatsu America, as senior vice president-chief strategy officer ... Microsoft Gold Partner Mariner hires Rodney Phillips, ex-Microsoft, as executive vice president-sales, newly formed Spyglass Connected Solutions ... ECS advances Brian Orsi to vice president-advanced national security and intelligence division ... Infosys Chief Financial Officer M.D. Ranganath resigns, effective Nov. 16 ... Circor International announces CFO Rajeev Bhalla resigns, staying until successor named ... Rocket Internet CFO Peter Kimpel leaving company ... CrowdStrike appoints Paul Bradley Shinn, ex-Gigamon, chief legal officer ... Optiva hires Shay Assaraf, ex-Amdocs, chief marketing officer ... Linq3 hires tech lawyer Matt Dillard, ex-Travelport, as chief legal officer.
EWTN Global Catholic Network moves National Catholic Register's Daniel Burke to president-chief operating officer, EWTN News ... Chris Shaw, ex-Wohler Technologies, rejoins Cobalt Digital as executive vice president-sales and marketing ... American Cable Association elects new board members: Marie Censoplano, Vyve Broadband; Matt Dosch, Comporium; John Gdovin, Patriot Media Consulting; Jim Gleason, Vast Broadband; and Tina Pidgeon, GCI.
Optiva taps Jason Rouault, ex-Cloudvisory, as chief technology officer ... OpenX appoints Todd Parsons, ex- SocialCode, as chief product officer ... Vela announces company consultant Peggy Sullivan now chief of staff ... Fox News Channel promotes Porter Berry to vice president-editor in chief of Fox News Digital ... Secure-24 advances Michael BeDell to CEO.
Mozilla hires Amy Keating, ex-Twitter, as general counsel ... Capital One taps Stan Meyers, ex-Piper Jaffray, as director-Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Research Group ... ACT|The App Association hires Ashley Durkin-Rixey, ex-Stanton Communications, as communications director ... Entercom hires from MediaCrossing Lee Davis as senior vice president-sales, Traffic Weather and Information Network.
SoftBank Group hires from Morrison & Foerster Robert Townsend as chief legal officer-senior vice president of SoftBank and chief legal officer, SoftBank Group International ... Uber hires Matt Olsen, ex-NSA, as chief security officer ... Combined companies RCN, Grande and Wave appoint Wave veteran Patrick Knorr to new role of chief commercial officer-executive vice president of commercial services; promote Paul Koss to senior vice president-carrier and wholesale business.
David Wells to depart as Netflix chief financial officer after his successor is found, plans unannounced ... Cisco Senior Vice President-General Manager Jonathan Davidson becomes head of company’s service provider networking, as Yvette Kanouff leaves ... Cablevision's Dolan family-founded media measurement and analytics firm 605 hires Doug MacDonald, ex-V12 Data, as executive vice president-sales.
Steven Swain departs as Dish Network chief financial officer, effective Aug. 22, to join Brookdale Senior Living as CFO, effective Sept. 4, his duties at Dish to be assumed by Chief Accounting Officer Paul Orban in the new post of principal financial officer ... Ondas Networks (formerly Full Spectrum) appoints Suresh Palliparambil, ex-NXP, chief revenue officer ... Klas Telecom Government names retired Army Lt. Gen. John Mulholland special adviser to board.
APCO International elects board of directors executive committee: Holly Wayt, president; Tracey Hilburn, first vice president; Margie Moulin, second vice president; and Martha Carter moves to immediate past president ... Fox News Channel promotes Cherie Grzech and Bryan Boughton to, respectively, vice president and senior vice president of the Washington bureau ... Nest Chief Technology Officer Yoky Matsuoka becomes strategic adviser for Fracta … Cars.com names Matthew Gold, ex-Alphabet, chief strategy officer ... Infogroup hires as chief marketing officer Tony Marlow, ex-Oath ... Synchronoss Technologies promotes Executive Vice President-Finance David Clark to chief financial officer, replacing retiring Lawrence Irving, who remains consultant
Dish Network hires Kevin Arrix, ex-Verve, as senior vice president-media sales ... DarkLight taps financial crimes compliance and cybersecurity expert Dan Wachtler as CEO ... Gryphon Networks adds Vice President-Product Management Brian Steele, ex-Eagle Investment Systems ... Garland Technology appoints Erica Tank, ex-NetApp, president ... Simmons Research hires Dan Zislis, ex-comScore, as vice president-head of agency sales; Jim Laiderman, ex-Acxiom, vice president-product and custom analytics; and Abhinav Kothari, ex-Mediaocean, senior director-engineering ... Utopus Insights taps Neil Desai, ex-Honeywell, as chief product officer ... GlobalSCAPE advances Karen Young to chief financial officer, succeeding James Albrecht, retired.
President Donald Trump to nominate former FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc, Boies Schiller, and Aditya Bamzai, University of Virginia School of Law, to Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ... IHeartMedia subsidiary Premiere Networks promotes Casey Silcock to vice president-affiliate relations/morning shows ... Alliant names Dave McQuillan, ex-NPD Group and SAS, vice president-new business development ... Secure World Foundation hires from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, Peter Martinez, as executive director, succeeding Michael Simpson.