Tucows hires Verizon’s Ivan Ivanov as chief financial officer, effective Aug. 5, to succeed departing Dave Singh ... Infleqtion, quantum information company, taps Pat Tang, ex-IonQ and former Amazon Lab12, as chief engineering officer ... S&P Global promotes Martina Cheung to president-CEO, effective Nov. 1, succeeding Douglas Peterson, remaining on board until May, then becoming special adviser until year-end 2025; also adds Cheung to board ... Kane Infrastructure Services, tech infrastructure provider, hires Gilbert Romo, ex-IES Communications, as chief revenue officer ... Ironclad, digital contracting platform, taps Michel Feaster, ex-Qualtrics, as chief product officer ... KittyHawk, tech investment firm, adds venture capitalist Alexandra Peterson as a partner ... Red River, tech transformation company, promotes Sara Siddiqui to vice president-strategic partnerships.
Jeffrey Strenkowski, previously Uniti Group, joins Troutman Pepper as partner-energy practice, with telecom focus ... Mythic, AI processor company, taps Taner Ozcelik, ex-Luminar Technologies, also former On Semiconductor and Nvidia, as its new CEO ... Core4ce, cybersecurity contractor, expands the role of co-founder Todd Harbour to chief technology officer for newly branded innovation incubator The Forge and hires Kim Kok, ex-Human Security, as vice president-sales and emerging technology and Michael Sass, ex-C3 AI, as head-data engineering and analytics ... Primer Technologies, an AI and machine learning company, names Instabase’s Erin Hawley as chief revenue officer and Joe Chang, ex-Uber, as chief technology officer.
Ballistic Ventures, cybersecurity-dedicated venture capital firm, names co-founder Kevin Mandia general partner ... Nexstar promotes Lloyd Bucher to vice president and general manager-broadcast and digital operations-Philadelphia ... Phonism, SIP device management solution provider, promotes Greg DiFraia to CEO and expands role of founder Steve Lazaridis to president and chief technology officer ... IT solutions provider Auvik adds Mark Ralls, ex-ActivTrak and former Invicti Security, as president, and Bryan Getz, ex-Druva, as chief sales officer ... Thrive, outsourcing provider for cybersecurity and cloud services, hires HP's Scott Steele as chief operating officer ... Smart Global Holdings, computing, memory and LED tech provider, hires Nate Olmstead, ex-Logitech, as senior vice president-chief financial officer.
Newly promoted at AST SpaceMobile, space-based cellular broadband network: Chief Strategy Officer Scott Wisniewski assumes additional role of president; Chief Accounting Officer Shanti Gupta moves to chief operations officer; and Chief Legal Officer Andrew Johnson assumes additional role of chief financial officer ... Cox Enterprises promotes Cody Partin to president-Cox Family Office, succeeding Sandy Schwartz, retiring at year-end ... Flo Networks, digital infrastructure solutions and connectivity services provider, promotes Hugo Nava to chief information officer and elevates Chief Product Officer Rocio Martinez to replace him as chief operating officer ... Congruex, digital network services provider, hires Charter Communications’ Shane Portfolio, also former Comcast, as chief technology officer ... Sumo Logic, AI-powered cloud-native log analytics platform, hires John Visneski, ex-Amazon, as chief information security officer, and Lyndsey Filantres, ex-Accolade, as senior vice president-growth.
Eleanor Sarpong, ex-Stantec, joins GSMA as director-policy and advocacy-digital inclusion ... Ludovic Ghesquiere, ex-Alphabet, returns to Paul Weiss as partner-anti-trust practice ... MPA hires Larissa Knapp, previously FBI, as executive vice president-global content protection ... Garmin elevates Patrick Desbois and Brad Trenkle to co-chief operating officers, newly created roles, effective July 1 ... Sinclair’s One Media Technologies announces retirement of Jerald Fritz as executive vice president-strategic and legal affairs, effective July 1.
Enzoic, dark web intelligence platform, announces co-founder Kristen Ranta Haikal Wilson as CEO, replacing Michael Greene, remaining with Enzoic as an adviser and board member ... Azuki, Web3 anime platform, hires CJ ENM's Steve Chung, also former Fox, as its first chief operating officer ... Roar Social, Gen Z social media platform, promotes Mike Dodge to president-chief operating officer ... Reco SaaS security provider names Merritt Baer, most recently chief information security officer at Lacework, chief information security officer ... Video platform HeyGen adds Dave King, former chief marketing officer-Asana, as chief business officer; Ron Yang, ex-vice president-engineering at Hubspot, as chief technology officer; and Lavanya Poreddy, ex-assistant vice president at Wipro, as head-trust and safety ... Quantum computing company IonQ promotes Dean Kassmann to senior vice president-engineering and technology ... Zeta Global tech company elects Imran Khan, Proem Asset Manager founder-chief investment officer, to its board ...Workday elects Sutter Hill Ventures Managing Director Michael Speiser, also Snowflake founding CEO, to its board as an independent director.
International Intellectual Property Alliance appoints Pete Mehravari, previously leading the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Global Intellectual Property Academy, as Director-policy and legal affairs ... WIA names to WIA Foundation: Blair Crawford, executive vice president-Vertical Bridge; Lynne Hopkins, senior director SBA Communications; Tom Kane, CEO-NB+C; and Amy Jo Samuel (foundation chair), vice president, American Tower ... Bosch advances Paul Thomas to president-Bosch in North America, effective Sept. 1, replacing Mike Mansuetti, retiring and becoming adviser ... PayPal names Srini Venkatesan, formerly Walmart’s U.S. Omni Platforms and Tech, as chief technology officer ... AI platform Writer names Roger Kopfmann, ex-vice president–Coupa, as chief financial officer; Andy Shorkey, ex-vice president–OneTrust, as chief revenue officer; and Diego Lomanto, ex-chief marketing officer at Ada, as CMO ... Ramin Farassat, ex-chief product officer at Egnyte, joins Seclore as chief product officer ... Converge Technology Solutions appoints Gayle Morris, most recently Microsoft vice president, and Mary Hassett, chief human resources officer, Lam Research, to board ...
Jessica Dine, previously a policy analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, joins New America as a policy analyst-Open Technology Institute and its Wireless Future Project ... TechNet names Rose Feliciano, former manager-government affairs at Desimone Consulting, executive director-Northwest region ... Forge Institute, an association focused on cybersecurity, names Jim Schnoes, ex-Syngrex chief financial officer, as CFO and Daniel Ross, a former senior account executive at Blackbaud, as chief growth officer.
Sean Spivey, former senior policy adviser in NTIA’s Office of Spectrum Management and also ex-FCC, joins Wilkinson Barker as a partner-telecom ... Tegna hires Artsy CEO Michael Steib as president-CEO and director, succeeding David Lougee retiring, effective Aug. 12; company also adds former Away President Catherine Dunleavy and X’s Denmark West to its board as independent directors ... Spectra7 announces the retirement of CEO Raouf Halim, with board Chair Ron Pasek becoming interim CEO ... Pax8 promotes global engineering lead Eric Stevens to chief AI officer ... Sangoma Technologies adds April Walker, ex-Salesforce vice president, to its board ... DigitalOcean cloud provider appoints Bratin Saha, former vice president-general manager, Amazon Web Services, as its chief product and technology officer.
Ballard Spahr names Jeffrey Morgan, ex-Barnes & Thornburg, as of counsel, intellectual property … Maryland Innovation Initiative hires Southern Research Chief Business Officer Abishek Kulshreshtha as its new executive director, effective July 1 ... WISeKey International Holding cybersecurity company announces retirement of Peter Ward as chief financial officer, effective June 30, succeeded by SEALSQ’s John O’Hara, effective July 1; Ward remaining on board … Intracom Telecom Group hires Kyriakos Vergos, ex-Codium Networks, as chief commercial officer ... Redwire, space infrastructure company, taps Virgin Galactic’s Aaron Futch, also former Intelsat, as executive vice president-general counsel and secretary.