ACA Connects names Bill Tortoriello, ex-UScellular and AT&T, director-regulatory affairs … Aviatrix cloud networking company hires Splunk CEO Doug Merritt as CEO-president, succeeding Steve Mullaney; Merritt also becomes board chairman … Dish announces resignation of Executive Vice President-Chief Operating Officer Narayan Iyengar, saying he will provide “transition support for a brief period of time” … Communications security platform Pavion promotes Alan Rosenkoff to chief marketing officer ... PCTel elects Ocolo’s Anthony Rossabi, also ex-Recovery Point Systems CEO, to its board ... Postmedia names lead director Peter Sharpe interim chair, replacing departed Executive Chair Jamie Irving.
Motion Picture Association names GoDigital Media Group’s Hunter Paletsas global chief financial officer, effective July 24, succeeding David England, retired … InDrive, mobility and urban services platform, names Honeywell’s Mark Loughran, also ex-Microsoft, group president, effective July 12 ... PureHD, supplier of Dish Network entertainment services to hotels, names Allbridge’s Craig Snelgrove chief marketing officer ... ACH oversight company Nacha names Wells Fargo’s Jennifer Stokley general counsel, succeeding Jeanette Hait Blanco, retiring soon ... Zayo hires PacketFabric’s Anna Claiborne as senior vice president-packet and product software engineering … Qyou Media, social media content platform, nominates Raj Mishra, TikTok’s former country manager in India, for election to its board at July 17 annual meeting ... Canadian tech company Valour adds Sue Ennis, Hut 8 vice president-corporate development, to its board.
Wilson Sonsini adds Cooley’s Matt Dubofsky as a corporate partner, focusing on work including tech transactions, in its Boulder, Colorado, office ... Rob Flaherty departs June 30 as White House director-digital strategy ... Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence hires University of Washington AI professor Ali Farhadi as CEO, effective July 31.
Squire Patton adds Everett Eissenstat, former deputy director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump, as a partner for its public policy team ... VF names former Logitech President-CEO Bracken Darrell CEO, effective July 17; Benno Dorer, interim president-CEO since Dec. 5, will remain a VF board member; interim Chair Richard Carucci becomes permanent chair ... Entravision names Michael Christenson, ex-New Relic and CA Technologies, CEO, effective July 1 ... Instapage, landing page company, promotes Chief Operations Officer Imran Syed to CEO ... LocatorX, open IoT hardware and software company, names Infleqtion’s Chester Kennedy CEO; previous CEO Scott Fletcher moves to chief commercial officer.
Disney Chief Financial Officer Christine McCarthy departing her role and taking family medical leave, will continue as a strategic adviser; effective July 1, Kevin Lansberry, CFO-Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, becomes interim corporate Disney CFO until McCarthy's permanent successor is found ... Comcast returns Justin Damiano to Southwest Florida as director-government affairs after six years as senior manager-external affairs for Comcast’s Big South region in Atlanta ... Honeywell Aerospace promotes President-Electronic Solutions Jim Currier to president-CEO, effective Aug. 1, succeeding Mike Madsen, retiring.
FirstNet Authority promotes Renee Gordon to vice chair (see 2306150056) … Digital consultancy Forum One promotes Chief Strategy Officer Elisabeth Bradley to CEO, effective Aug. 1, succeeding Chris Wolz, who previously announced his retirement ... Video telematics company Lytx names Microsoft’s Casey McGee chief revenue officer ... Black Effect Podcast Network adds Operation Hope Chairman-CEO John Hope Bryant to its board ... Wilson Sonsini adds former Spaceflight CEO Curt Blake as senior of counsel in its Seattle office as firm launches NewSpace industry group ... Hewlett Packard Enterprise adds ex-Ixia CEO and former HP executive Bethany Mayer to its board ... Clear elects CrowdStrike Chief Security Officer Shawn Henry to its board.
Logitech names board member Guy Gecht interim CEO to replace departing President-CEO Bracken Darrell, who also leaves the board ... Rubrik data security company names Andres Botero, ex-BlackLine, chief marketing officer ... Hemlock Semiconductor hires Rolf Hartmann, ex-FMC, as senior vice president-chief procurement and supply chain officer, after recent retirement of Phil Dembowski, senior vice president-chief commercial officer … Clearwave Fiber names Fiberlight’s Jonathan Couch chief financial officer ... Yahoo hires Sorare’s Ryan Spoon, also former BetMGM and ESPN, as president-Yahoo Sports.
CTIA hires Annissa Reed, the National Organization for Rare Disorders’ associate director-state policy, as director-state and local affairs ... Wilson Sonsini names Yann Padova, ex-Baker McKenzie, a Brussels-based partner for its regulatory and compliance department and member of its privacy and cybersecurity practice ... Preparing for reorganization after Chapter 11, Starry announces transition with Chief Operating Officer and co-founder Alex Moulle-Berteaux to CEO, succeeding Chet Kanojia, and both joining new board under reorganization (see 2306130046).
ISACA names Outerwall’s Erik Prusch CEO … SES names Chief Technology Officer Ruy Pinto interim CEO until permanent successor is found for Steve Collar, departing as CEO at the end of June ... Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group hires Skydance Media’s Bill Damaschke, also former DreamWorks Animation, as president of its newly rebranded Warner Bros. Pictures Animation ... Changes at DigitalBridge, digital infrastructure investor: Geoffrey Goldschein promoted to chief legal officer and company secretary; Francisco Sorrentino hired from SoftBank as chief people officer; Stephen Stryker tapped from Varde Partners as chief information officer to succeed Mark Serwinowski, retiring; and Justin Chang promoted to senior managing director-Asia Pacific ... Cybersecurity company Cyemptive Technologies names former Hitachi executive Ray McCay chief revenue officer.
Roku elects Jeff Blackburn, former Amazon senior vice president-global media and entertainment, to its board ... DocuSign adds Anna Marrs, American Express group president-global commercial services and credit and fraud risk, to its board ... E-commerce tech company Rokt names Srishti Gupta, ex-Amazon, chief product officer, and Flatiron Health’s Josh DeFrain chief information security officer; Rokt also promotes Craig Galvin to chief revenue officer ... Ad tech platform TripleLift adds Tony Wells, former Verizon senior vice president-marketing and chief media officer, and Adolfo Villagomez, former Home Depot chief marketing officer-U.S. retail, to its board ... Tint, social content and community platform, promotes Susan Frech to CRO.