USTelecom elects Jennifer Prather, Totelcom Communications, as chair, Josh Descant, REV, vice-chair, and Brad Welch, CentraCom, secretary; Chris Lovell, CL Tel., added to leadership committee...

International Broadcast Advisory Board makes permanent Jeffrey Gedmin’s position as Middle East Broadcasting Networks president-CEO ... Sinclair’s One Media Technologies promotes Matthew Goldman to vice president-strategic and technical initiatives, new post ...Scripps advances Matt Simon to vice president-Scripps News ... Broadband tech company Rajant elects Daniel Verwiel, previously Northrop Grumman, to board.

GSMA elects board including new members Thaddeus Arroyo, AT&T; Allison Kirkby, BT; Ernest Lawrence Cu, Globe; Mike Fries, Liberty Global; Ralph Mupita, MTN; Benedicte Fasmer, Telenor; Ali Taha Koc, Turkcell; and Joe Russo, Verizon … Cloud solutions company Trofeo hires Greg Pierce, ex-3Cloud, as COO ... AI speech technology firm aiOla adds Bhiksha Raj, previously Carnegie Mellon University, as distinguished scientist ... Cybersecurity software company Vhere hires Shayshi Bhalla, ex-Jio, as director-systems engineering ... AI and cloud computing company G42 appoints Ali Dalloul, ex-Microsoft, as group chief strategy officer and CEO-U.S. business.

Cybersecurity company Sevco hires Ken Shelton, ex-Randori, as chief technology officer and promotes Aaron Griffin to chief architect ... Graybar promotes Dennis DeSousa to chief of staff and advances to senior vice presidents David Bender for East region; Brian Delaney, West region and subsidiaries; Danna Stone, marketing; and Andy Ipson, supply chain management ... Cybersecurity company Sophos appoints Torjus Gylstorff, ex-Thales, as chief revenue officer and Jon Bove, ex-Fortinet, as senior vice president-Americas sales ... Marcia Dempster, ex-Keeper Security, joins cybersecurity company Securonix as vice president-Americas channel sales ... IT services and cybersecurity provider CompassMSP adds Ryan Benson, previously Stratascale, as vice president-security.

Bartlett Cleland, previously American Legislative Exchange Council, and Patrick Hedger, ex-Taxpayers Protection Alliance, join NetChoice as general counsel-director, strategic initiatives and director-policy, respectively ... The Motion Picture Association hires Bryan Willett, ex-FBI, as vice president-content protection enforcement-Americas region ... IT company Mycom OSI appoints Charles Bligh, ex-Restore, as CEO, succeeding Andre Coll, transitioning to board chairman ... Tegna names Alex Tolston, ex-Hemisphere Media Group, as senior vice president-chief legal officer ... IT services provider CACI elects Scott Morrison, Ball Corp., to board.

Cloud infrastructure and data solutions provider AiNet promotes Robert Baxter and appoints William Fisher, ex-Information Evolution, as co-CEOs ... Nokia promotes Louise Fisk to chief communications officer ... TDS Telecommunications promotes Kristina Bothfeld to vice president-finance and CFO, effective Dec. 3 ... Cloud platform CoreWeave promotes Michelle O’Rourke to chief people officer ... Hearst Television promotes Blake Bridges to president-general manager-WYFF Greenville, South Carolina, effective Nov. 18 ... Charles Phillips resigns from board of Paramount Global, effective Oct. 31 ...

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces new Office of Native Affairs officials: Kraynal Alfred, ex-Democratic National Committee, as tribal policy adviser, and Jack Jackson, ex-Department of Labor, as tribal policy engagement specialist … Dennis Miller retiring as network president, CW Network, effective Oct. 31, remaining as adviser through the end of year.

OpenAI appoints Dane Stuckey, ex-Palantir, as co-chief information security officer ... Tech integration company Network Innovations hires Keith Johnson, ex-Speedcast, as president-Americas, and promotes Andrew Burdall to executive vice president-strategic development ... Cybersecurity company Resilience names Matthew Polly, ex-Crowdstrike, as chief revenue officer ... Vonage appoints Anthony Bartolo, ex-Bandwidth, as COO.

Data Center Coalition hires Khara Boender, ex-Computer & Communications Industry Association, as senior manager-state policy … UnWired Broadband appoints Matt Murphy, Astra Capital Management, as CEO ... Telecom provider Tele2 appoints Jean Harion, ex-Play Poland, president and CEO ... Chris Sambar leaves AT&T to become Public Storage COO.

CTIA announces board changes, including Laurent Therivel, UScellular, as chairman, and Kyle Malady, Verizon Business, as vice chairman, both effective Jan. 1; Mike Finley, Boingo Wireless, as secretary, effective immediately; and Stephen Bye, Ookla, as member ... Kansas telecom provider Twin Valley appoints John Sullivan, previously Charter, as vice president-operations ... Semiconductor provider Lattice announces Corporate Vice President-Controller Tonya Stevens as interim CFO, succeeding Sherri Luther, who resigns and joins Coherent as CFO-treasurer.