Liberty Media President-CEO Greg Maffei stepping down at year-end with Chairman John Malone becoming interim CEO; Maffei to serve as senior adviser during transition ... Radcom names Benny Eppstein, ex-Amdocs, as CEO, effective Dec. 1 ... The Next Generation 9-1-1 Institute elects to board Todd Piett, Motorola Solutions; Jennifer White, RapidSOS; Manuel Silva, Frontier; Eric Hagerson, T-Mobile; and Mike Tan, AT&T.
Semiconductor provider Spectra7 Microsystems appoints Omar Javaid, ex-Avaya, as CEO ... Scripps promotes Teresa Morgan to vice president-general manager-WFTS-TV Tampa, effective Jan. 1 ... Tegna appoints Dhanusha Sivajee, previously Angi, as chief experience officer ... Archtop Fiber names Keith Taub, ex-Technical Safety Services, as CFO ... Cybersecurity company Menlo Security names Bill Robbins, ex-Sophos, as president.
News Corp CFO Susan Panuccio to step down, effective Jan. 1, to be succeeded by Lavanya Chandrashekar, ex-Diageo; Panuccio to continue in an advisory capacity for six months ... Cybersecurity company Dot Ai appoints Toni Buhrke, ex-Mimecast, as vice president-global sales, engineering, and operations ... Nvidia names Ellen Ochoa, ex-NASA, to board.
FCC special counsel Tracy Bridgham, retiring from agency, effective Nov. 29, with Enforcement Bureau attorney William Knowles-Kellett appointed to take Bridgham's role heading the FCC Chapter, National Treasury Employees Union and becoming president-elect until special election; Satellite Programs and Policy Division special counsel Julia Malette will replace Knowles-Kellett as executive vice president ...
Technology services provider DXC Technology appoints James Walker, previously IBM, as chief administrative officer ... Semiconductor supplier Renesas appoints Utae Nakanishi, ex-Micron, as senior vice president-chief human resources officer; promotes Malini Narayanamoorthi to India country manager and vice president-MID engineering; and transitions Julie Pope to senior vice president-strategic initiatives and UX Group.
Charter Communications' Adam Ray, executive vice president-chief commercial officer, adds oversight of Spectrum Enterprise; Bill Archer, current president-Spectrum Enterprise, transitions to an advisory role to Ray until retirement in 2025 ... Consolidated Communications hires Al Maitino, ex-Lightpath, as senior vice president-commercial sales and Chris McGregor, Charter, as vice president-consumer call center ... Straight Arrow News adds Ken Shapiro, previously Morning Brew, as chief revenue officer.
NAB names Sean Perkins, ex-CTA, chief marketing officer-senior vice president-global connections and events ... Wiley adds Stacey Sutton and Amanda Jesteadt from Carlton Fields as partners in telecom, media and technology practice ... Phishing detection company Bolster appoints Rod Schultz, ex-Dust Identity, as CEO ... Southern Linc promotes Alan McIntyre to vice president-engineering and operations … Tech company Odine hires Truva founder and 6G pioneer Ilhan Akyildiz as research and development adviser.
Microsoft adds Jay Parikh, ex-Lacework, to senior leadership team ... NetApp promotes Pamela Hennard to chief diversity and inclusion officer ... Hong Kong Broadcasting Network appoints Gabriel Leung, previously Hewlett Packard, as CEO-Enterprise Solutions ... Changqing Ye resigns from Chinese carrier- and cloud-neutral internet data center services provider Vnet’s board.
NCTA elects Mark Greatrex, Cox Communications, as chairman; Chris Winfrey, Charter Communications, vice chairman; Dave Watson, Comcast, treasurer; and Pat McAdaragh, Midco, interim secretary; adds to board Chris McCarthy, Paramount, and Chuck Treadway, CommScope ... Comtech names interim CEO John Ratigan president-CEO and board member and appoints Ken Traub, Delta Value Advisors, to board ...Telecom foundation prpl Innovation adds to board John Valdez, Frontier Communications; Mike Emmendorfer, Calix; and Sreekanth Natarajan, Qualcomm Technologies ... Grocery TV names to board Alison Levin, NBCUniversal Media.
Ericsson’s Chief People Officer MajBritt Arfert stepping down at end of May ... Urban One promotes Eddie Harrell and Deon Levingston to co-presidents-audio division, succeeding audio division CEO David Kantor, retiring Jan. 5 ... Distributed cloud services platform Storj promotes Colby Winegar to CEO, succeeding Ben Golub, remaining as executive chair ... High altitude platform station manufacturer Aalto promotes Hughes Boulnois to CEO, succeeding Samer Halawi, now senior adviser.