Frontier Technology promotes Chief Financial Officer Jose Hidalgo to president ... KPMG promotes Steve Chase to vice chair of its new AI and digital innovation group, and names Atif Zaim to succeed Chase as head of its consulting practice; both effective Oct. 1 ... New hires at Stability AI, generative AI company: Ozden Onder, ex-Wildlife Studios, as chief people officer; Jordan Valdes, ex-IBM, as vice president-communications and community; Scott Trowbridge, ex-Circle and WeWork, as vice president-business development; and Ben Brooks, ex-Google, Coinbase and Uber, as global head-public policy ... Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) appoints Annie Kuether, a former state representative, to the Kansas Corporation Commission and reappoints Andrew French as commissioner; if confirmed by the state Senate, Kuether’s term would begin Oct. 3, French’s new term would begin March 16 … Science Applications International Corp. adds Dana Deasy, former DOD chief information officer under President Donald Trump, to its board, expanding it to 11 members ... Enghouse Systems, enterprise software provider, adds Magnet Forensics General Counsel Vivian Leung to its board.
Former Flatiron School cybersecurity instructor and solo attorney Joseph Gawlowicz joins Mullen Coughlin as an associate-incident response practice … Optimum appoints as vice presidents-general managers Kathleen Preston, from Cox Communications, for West Pacific Area, Elton Hart, ex-Comcast Business, for Mid Atlantic Area, and Vic Pascarelli, ex-Comcast, for Northeast Area; it also moves Michael Shaffer to vice president-GM, Mid Central Area … Cogeco names former Bell Canada executive Tim Dinesen senior vice president-chief technology officer ...
NTIA moves Sean Conway to deputy chief counsel … TechNet promotes Federal Policy Manager Meghan Pearce to federal policy director …Hearst promotes Gerry McGavick to vice president-sales, Hearst Television … Casa Systems appoints Cisco’s Colin Kincaid chief product officer and Phil Paro, ex-Tomorrow.io, chief accounting officer … Speedcast names James Feger, from F5, chief technology officer … Darwinium, digital security and fraud prevention company, names Outseer’s Leah Evanski chief commercial officer ... MixMode, AI cybersecurity company, names ClearData’s Bob Pratt, also ex-Splunk, senior vice president-product ... Data center developer CyrusOne promotes Jim Roche to senior vice president-engineering ... JFrog names Shanti Ariker, ex-Zendesk, chief legal officer ... President Joe Biden nominates Miriam Hellreich for reappointment to CPB for term expiring Jan. 31, 2030.
California State Senate confirms Karen Douglas as Public Utilities Commission member (see 2212230042) … Anne Veigle says she left FCC to become International Telecommunication Union’s senior communications adviser … LG Ad Solutions names Zenapse’s Michael Hudes president-CEO and adds him to its board; Chief Operating Officer Adam Sexton relinquishes his acting CEO role ... Provenir, supplier of AI-powered risk decisioning software, taps Builder.ai’s Andres Elizondo, also former Rackspace Technology, as chief financial officer ... OpenText names Shannon Bell, ex-Rogers Communications, executive vice president-chief digital officer and adds her to its executive leadership team.
Conversational AI company Krista names Paylocity’s Michael Haske CEO, succeeding John Michelsen, remaining on Krista’s board and continuing as chief product officer ... SAP names Microsoft’s Walter Sun global head-AI ... DXC Technology names IBM’s Howard Boville executive vice president and global lead-applications services and AI ... Chipmaker Alphawave Semi adds GlobalFoundries Chief Financial Officer David Reeder to its board.
Akin adds Mike Mineiro, ex-House Science, Space and Technology Committee, also former White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as senior counsel in its D.C. telecom, media and technology practice ... Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) promotes Public Utility Commissioner Stephen DeFrank to chairman, replacing Gladys Brown Dutrieuille, whose tenure as PUC commissioner ended with the confirmation of Kimberly Barrow (see 2308300037) … DataVisor, AI-powered fraud and risk platform, names Socure’s Kevin McWey chief revenue officer.
Wireless Infrastructure Association names Karmen Rajamani, ex-Crown Castle, vice president-government affairs, to be effective Tuesday … ACA promotes, effective Friday, Stacey Leech to vice president-member services; Tomeika Slappy to manager-member services in addition to her present duties as executive assistant to the CEO; and Nathan Penrod to director-digital and social media … The Battle Group names principal Torben Voetmann president … Warner Bros. Discovery taps Mark Thompson, former New York Times Co. president-CEO and ex-BBC director-general, as CNN Worldwide chairman-CEO, effective Oct. 9 ... CNN names Mark Thompson, former New York Times Co. president-CEO, CNN Worldwide chairman-CEO … Fleet Space names Isa Notermans, ex-Airtasker, as chief people officer … Emmis President-Programming Rick Cummings announces his retirement, effective Friday; he will remain a consultant.
Ted Hearn leaves ACA Connects as communications vice president, with his LinkedIn saying he’s publishing Policy Band … Globalstar names Xcom Labs founder Paul Jacobs, also ex-Qualcomm, CEO, effective immediately, in conjunction with Globalstar’s agreement to license key Xcom technologies (see 2308290003); Jacobs replaces former CEO David Kagan, retiring; Xcom Chief Technology Officer Matt Grob and Chief Scientist Peter Black also join Globalstar, also effective immediately, as will Vice President-Wireless Tamer Kadous and Vice President-Engineering Daaman Hejmadi, effective after they complete a transition period with Xcom ... Brightspeed promotes Chief Operating Officer Tom Maguire to CEO; current CEO Bob Mudge becomes executive chair; Manny Sampedro hired from Verizon to succeed Maguire as COO; all effective Nov. 1.
Charter Communications promotes Meg Hall to senior vice president-corporate software … Expel security operations provider names Yonni Shelmerdine, ex-SentinelOne, chief product officer.
DigitalOcean, cloud computing platform for startups and small businesses, says Yancey Spruill will depart as CEO and board member when a successor is found, and it names lead independent director Warren Adelman executive chairman, effective immediately ... Nebula streaming service names YouTuber Sam Denby chief content officer ... Advertising measurement firm MarketCast names Kantar’s Marisa McMahon head-client service, technology and platforms ... Qualys adds Tom Berquist, Cloud Software Group chief financial officer, to its board.