Internet Accountability Project adds Josh Hammer, who remains at Edmund Burke Foundation among other affiliations, as counsel and policy adviser ... Nexstar Media effective Nov. 1 combining "its two primary operating subsidiaries" Nexstar Digital and Nexstar Broadcasting, with Nexstar Broadcasting being renamed Nexstar; digital business unit led by Karen Brophy, who moves to president, digital; Timothy Busch becomes president, broadcasting; and Sean Compton is president, networks and overseeing WGN America, AntennaTV and WGN Radio; President, Nexstar Digital Gregory Raifman leaves company at end of his contract on March 31.
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Zayo appoints Steve Smith, ex-GI Partners, as CEO, succeeding Dan Caruso who continues at Zayo on the board ... Fidelis Cybersecurity appoints cybersecurity industry veteran Anup Ghosh, leaving Accenture Security, as CEO ... AEye, maker of perception systems for self-driving vehicles, promotes Blair LaCorte to CEO; founder Luis Dussan is president-chief technology officer; LaCorte had been president ... Korn Ferry hires Travis Parsons, ex-Spencer Stuart, as senior client partner-Global Technology practice.
Windstream Enterprise promotes Brad Smith to head-strategic channels ... Deluxe hires Anna Lee from Netflix as chief strategy officer, newly created post ... Nautilus taps Garry Wiseman, ex-Dell Technologies, for senior vice president-chief digital officer ... Trianz digital transformation tech provider names Laura Ferracane, ex-Deloitte Consulting, vice president-global human resources.
Joseph Barloon, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative general counsel and acting deputy USTR, China affairs, being nominated by President Donald Trump to be a judge on the U.S. Court of International Trade ... For BMI, Caroline Beasley, Beasley Media, elected chairman after she was vice chairman; she succeeds Michael Fiorile, Dispatch Printing, who becomes presiding director; the organization's directors extend Mike O’Neill’s contract as president-CEO for six years, through 2026.
Citrix elects Robert Knowling, ex-telecom and technology executive and Eagles Landing Partners chairman, to its board ... Public Media Group of Southern California names Louise Bryson, ex-Lifetime, chairperson; she succeeds Dick Cook Studios Chairman-CEO Dick Cook, who continues on the board; Anne Gates, ex-MGA Entertainment president, becomes vice chair.
Association of National Advertisers newly elects to its board, which for the first time includes members globally, Dean Aragon, Shell International; Esi Eggleston Bracey, Unilever North America; Julia Goldin, Lego; Ivan Pollard, General Mills; Manoj Raghunandanan, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health; Tony Wells, USAA; and William White, Walmart ... E-commerce platform Wish adds Stephanie Tilenius, Vida Health, and Julie Bradley, ex-Tripadvisor, to its board.
Recording Academy starts Black Music Collective, with honorary chairs Jeffrey Harleston, Jimmy Jam, Quincy Jones, Debra Lee, John Legend and Sylvia Rhone; Recording Academy trustee Riggs Morales is BMC chair; Washington Chapter Executive Director Jeriel Johnson is executive sponsor; and BLC Leadership Committee has Yolanda Adams, artist; Brianna Agyemang, executive; MixedByAli, engineer; Tunde Balogun, executive; Tuma Basa, executive; Aloe Blacc, artist; Boi-1da, producer; Catherine Brewton, executive; Terri Lyne Carrington, musician; D-Nice, artist; Phylicia Fant, executive; H.E.R., artist; Om’Mas Keith, producer; Rico Love, songwriter; Heather Lowery, executive; Steve Pamon, executive; Tayla Parx, songwriter; Ryan Press, executive; Rashid Shabazz, executive; Jamila Thomas, executive; and No-I.D., producer.