Logitech names Charles Boynton, ex-Plantronics, chief financial officer, effective Feb. 6; current CFO Nate Olmstead resigns, also effective Feb. 6, but remaining through a transition period; Prakash Arunkundrum promoted to chief operating officer, effective immediately ...
Mayer Brown adds Spencer Glende, ex-Dorsey & Whitney, as a partner and a member of its technology and intellectual property transactions practice and its emerging companies and venture capital practice ... DocuSign names Atlassian’s Robert Chatwani president-general manager-growth, and Anwar Akram, ex-Google, chief operating officer ... Rockwell Automation promotes Shovan Sengupta to regional vice president-market access, Asia Pacific.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) appoints Christian Mirch, a lawyer and former member of the Omaha Police Department, to replace Crystal Rhoades, elected as the Douglas County clerk of the District Court … Riedel promotes Rick Seegull to senior vice president-technology and business development, the Americas ... Bramble, next-generation software company, names former GE CEO Jeff Immelt to advisory board ... Astra adds former FireEye and Autodesk executive Julie Cullivan to its board, effective Wednesday ... Newly added to Salesforce board as independent directors: Arnold Donald, former Carnival president-CEO; Sachin Mehra, Mastercard chief financial officer; and Mason Morfit, ValueAct Capital CEO; current board members Sanford Robertson and Alan Hassenfeld won’t seek re-election at 2023 annual meeting ... The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation announces Jill Maiorano, ex-Microsoft, as president and Grace Hansen, Stellantis, as vice president.
ETC Group names CommScope’s Alper Turken, also former Motorola and Arris, deputy CEO ... Western Union moves Matthew Cagwin to chief financial officer from interim CFO ... Mobile device security platform Zimperium names Bugcrowd’s Sammie Walker chief marketing officer ... Digital identity verification company Prove Identity names Relativity’s Amanda Fennell chief information security officer and chief information officer.
Nokia promotes Esa Niinimaki to chief legal officer … Ericsson advances Jenny Lindqvist to senior vice president-head, market area Europe and Latin America, effective Feb. 1 … Extreme Networks names Cristina Tate, senior vice president-financial planning and analysis, interim CFO; current CFO Remi Thomas resigns, effective Feb. 16, to join a privately held software company ... Forescout Technologies, cybersecurity and compliance company, names Barry Mainz, ex-MobileIron and Wind River Systems, CEO.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) appoints Doyle Webb, former state Republican Party chair, as Arkansas Public Service Commission chair, for term expiring Jan. 14, 2029; he replaces Katie Anderson, continuing as commissioner … National Religious Broadcasters names Michael Farris, from the Alliance Defending Freedom, general counsel … Twilio promotes Adam Jorde to head-government affairs, managing congressional relationships and leading congressional advocacy.
Hogan Lovells adds Karl Racine, former Washington, D.C., attorney general, as litigation partner … FTC Office of Policy Planning Director Elizabeth Wilkins becomes agency’s acting chief of staff; Jen Howard, former chief of staff, joins Transportation Department as chief compliance officer … Extenet names Scott Pomykalski, ex-Nokia, chief revenue officer.
Netflix founder-co-CEO Reed Hastings announces he’s now executive chairman, with Greg Peters advancing to join Ted Sarandos as co-CEO; Bela Bajaria rises to chief content officer and Scott Stuber to Netflix Film chairman.
Social media management platform Hootsuite hires CareerBuilder’s Irina Novoselsky as CEO, succeeding Tom Keiser, departed ... Logically, a managed IT and security service provider, promotes Joshua Skeens to CEO, succeeding Michelle Accardi.
Evan Morris is now FCC Media Bureau associate bureau chief, from legal adviser.