President Joe Biden sends to Senate reappointment of Rebecca Kelly Slaughter as FTC commissioner for seven-year term, ending Sept. 26, 2029 … National Emergency Number Association names Jonathan Gilad, ex-MCI-USA, government affairs director … NAB Senior Vice President-Communications Ann Marie Cumming says she’s leaving association Feb. 21 to join Congressional Club Museum and Foundation as executive director.
NTIA promotes Russ Hanser to associate administrator-policy analysis and development, and hires DOD's Amanda Toman to head new Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund ... Neville Ray plans to retire as T-Mobile president-technology by fall; current Executive Vice President-Chief Network Officer Ulf Ewaldsson will assume the role after Ray departs (see 2302130068) ... Security automation company Torq taps Splunk’s Josh Morris as senior vice president-worldwide sales and Pax8's Don Jeter as chief marketing officer ... USIC, provider of utility damage prevention services, names Lumen’s Richard Batelaan, also ex-AT&T, chief operating officer.
PayPal says President-CEO Dan Schulman plans to retire year-end, remain on board … Nordson precision technology company names Raytheon’s Sarah Siddiqui executive vice president-chief human resources officer, effective Feb. 20, succeeding Shelly Peet, who plans to retire in March ... Rokt, e-commerce technology company, taps Grubhub’s Noel Curtis as senior vice president-engineering, and former Amazon executive John Walzer to lead Rokt's new Seattle Development Center ... Ovative Group, a media and measurement firm, names Eric Gohs, ex-Ascena, vice president-consulting.
New Mexico Senate confirms Gabriel Aguilera, ex-Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, James Ellison, ex-Sandia National Laboratories, and Patrick O’Connell, ex-Western Resource Advocates, as members of the state Public Regulation Commission … Skybox Security names Mordecai Rosen, ex-Digital Guardian, CEO … Apple hires Medtronic’s Carol Surface as chief people person, newly created position … Waymo promotes Amar Mehta to chief legal officer.
California Public Utilities Commission confirms John Reynolds, former managing counsel at Cruise self-driving car company, as commissioner … CrowdStrike promotes Chief Technology Officer Michael Sentonas to president ... Identity Defined Security Alliance names Jeff Reich, ex-Cloud Security Alliance, executive director, and elects nine new members to its executive advisory board, including Atos’ Allen Moffett; BeyondTrust’s Morey Haber; CyberArk’s Joanne Wu; and VMware’s Rahul Parwani; newly added to IDSA’s expanded customer advisory board: Comcast’s Rajnish Bhatia, TikTok’s Douglas Rose and Target’s Tom Sheffield.
Cybersecurity nonprofit Quad9 taps Nadia Alter, who worked on European Commission's Next Generation Internet initiative, as CEO; previous CEO John Todd remains general manager ... Hewlett Packard Enterprise promotes HPE Financial Services Chief Operating Officer Gerri Gold to that division’s CEO, succeeding Irv Rothman, retiring … Web3 infrastructure company Chainstack names former Acronis Chief Revenue Officer Jan-Jaap Jager CEO.
Pryor Cashman adds Briana Hill, Simon Pulman and Amy Stein Simonds, all from ex-Cowan DeBaets, as partners in its media and entertainment practice group; Hill and Pulman named group co-heads with James Janowitz ... UM media agency names Sasha Savic, ex-EssenceMediacom, global CEO …Gamelancer Media names former Montreal Canadiens executive Kristopher Mychasiw head-global partnerships and sales ... Pomeroy Technologies names Jayleen Shields, from Adyen, senior vice president-retail, new position.
California Privacy Protection Agency names Lisa Kim, former state deputy attorney general, senior privacy counsel and adviser … TDX Tech names Steve Bennewitz, ex-PwC, chief financial officer … Lumen hires Sham Chotai, ex-General Electric and Hewlett-Packard, as executive vice president-product and technology, and Jay Barrows, also ex-GE, as executive vice president-enterprise sales and public sector; adds responsibilities for Ashley Haynes-Gaspar, who becomes executive vice president-customer experience officer, wholesale and international.
Siris, private equity firm focused on tech companies, promotes Tyler Sipprelle to partner … Lidar company AEye taps former Harman International executive Matt Fisch as CEO and board member, effective Feb. 13, to succeed departing CEO Blair LaCorte, remaining on AEye’s advisory board ... Hotwire Global Communications promotes Heather Craft to CEO-North America, and Laura Macdonald to chief growth officer.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., names FCC Chief of Staff to then Chairman Ajit Pai Matthew Berry, also ex-Akin Gump and ex-FCC general counsel, as House general counsel, succeeding Douglas Letter, now chief legal officer for Brady: United Against Gun Violence … New Jersey Board of Public Utilities President Joseph Fiordaliso appoints Valarry Bullard, from the New Jersey Governor’s Disaster Recovery Office, as director of newly created Broadband Office … North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) names HUB International’s Kuldip Mohanty North Dakota Information Technology chief information officer, effective Feb. 23.