Circles, SaaS platform targeting the telco industry, hires Dish Network’s Kannan Alagappan as chief technology officer ... Keyfactor, identity security platform, names Scott Meyerhoff, ex-EmployBridge, chief financial officer ... Talkdesk hires UiPath’s Munil Shah, also former Microsoft, as chief technology officer ... Phoji, developer of customized emojis for digital and mobile marketing communications, adds Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, former vice president-general manager of Snap’s augmented reality platform, to its board, pending shareholder approval at July annual meeting; Papamiltiadis also is former Meta vice president-platform partnerships ... Sinclair appoints Mike Palmer, assistant vice president-media management, as its representative on the Entertainment ID Registry board for a one-year term ... Quad Investors Network, charitable initiative to promote tech development in the Indo-Pacific region, adds Nishant Batra, Nokia chief strategy and technology officer, to its advisory board.

Vivacity Infrastructure Group, provider of communications infrastructure services, appoints Christopher Rabii, ex-FiberLight, as president-CEO … Internet company Expereo promotes Chief Revenue Officer Ben Elms to CEO, succeeding Irwin Fouwels who moves to executive chairman, both effective May 1 ... Wipro advances Malay Joshi to CEO, Wipro Americas 1 Strategic Market Unit, succeeding Srini Pallia, now Wipro CEO-managing director (see 2404080025); Malay will also join Wipro's executive board ... Qubrid AI, generative AI company, adds Google’s Ujjwal Rajbhandari, also former Dell, as chief technology officer and co-founder.

Harmonic promotes Nimrod Ben-Natan, senior vice president-general manager, broadband business, to president-CEO to succeed retiring Patrick Harshman, effective June 11 ... Backlight, media and entertainment software provider, hires Mosaic Group’s Kathleen Barrett, also former Vimeo, as CEO ... WorldVue, provider of video, digital infrastructure and wireless connectivity services, adds Chris Coles, ex-C&W Networks, as chief business development officer ... Daily newsletter 1440 taps former Time executive Michelle Denhart as vice president-strategy and brand ... C3 AI, enterprise AI application software company, adds outgoing Fortune Media CEO Alan Murray to its board, effective May 1; meanwhile, Fortune announces Chief Strategy Officer-Chief Financial Officer Anastasia Nyrkovskaya as CEO, succeeding Murray, departing at the end of April ... Publishers Clearing House Media names Roey Franco, ex-Firefly, chief product officer ... Captivate, news and entertainment network, rehires its former Senior Vice President-National Sales Leigh Lowery from Outfront Media as chief revenue officer.

Radcom, provider of 5G-ready cloud-native network intelligence for telecom operators, names Chief Operating Officer Hilik Itman interim CEO; Guy Shemesh departs as CEO for personal reasons ... Garmin announces Andrew Etkind to step down as general counsel, effective July 1, will continue as vice president and secretary; Josh Maxfield is promoted to vice president-general counsel and assistant secretary ... Wipro promotes Srini Pallia to CEO and managing director, succeeding Thierry Delaporte, departing ... A-Lign, cybersecurity compliance company, moves Michael Branca to chief financial officer; he was interim CFO since rejoining the company in Q4 ... Voyager Space hires Neeraj Gupta, ex-Sierra Space, as chief strategy officer.

Brian Weeden leaves Secure World Foundation to become Aerospace Corp. Center for Space Policy and Strategy systems director-policy and regulatory … IonQ, quantum computing company, hires PagerDuty’s Stacey Giamalis, also former Wilson Sonsini, as chief legal officer-corporate secretary ... Teradata, cloud analytics and data platform for AI, promotes Richard Petley to chief revenue officer, succeeding Todd Cione, leaving the company ... Fortune Media taps former Scissero interim CEO Georgene Huang as general manager-Fortune Analytics, new business unit dedicated to Fortune 500 lists and rankings.

NAB announces Nandu Machiraju, a former partner at Baker & McKenzie, as senior vice president-deputy general counsel … Ericsson appoints Greta Lundeberg, ex-Boeing, as vice president-head, government and policy advocacy Americas … Talkdesk promotes Miles Ennis to senior vice president-worldwide sales ... Digimarc hires George Karamanos, ex-Zip, as chief legal officer ... Allegro MicroSystems appoints Jennie Raubacher, former Wells Fargo managing director, to board … Twilio announces retirement of board member Byron Deeter before the company’s 2024 annual meeting, reducing the board’s composition to nine members.

Bluebird Network promotes Chris Melloway to director-system solutions engineering and sales support … Cambium Networks, wireless networking infrastructure solutions provider, taps Jacob Sayer, ex-Sensata Technologies, as chief financial officer, effective Monday ... Glassbox, digital experience analytics provider for web and mobile applications, hires Michelle Suzuki, ex-Instructure, as chief marketing officer ... EShare appoints Niki Sotiropoulou, ex-viva.com, chief marketing officer.

Kelsey Bagot, former NextEra Energy senior attorney, is sworn in as member of Virginia’s State Corporation Commission ... Artifact co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger to work with Yahoo in an advisory capacity for a transition period following Yahoo’s acquisition of their news aggregation and discovery platform; Systrom and Krieger also co-founded Instagram in 2010 ... Expel, managed detection and response platform, promotes Vice President-Engineering Cat Starkey to chief technology officer ... F5, multicloud application security and delivery company, hires Lyra Schramm, ex-Google and also former Amazon Web Services, as executive vice president-chief people officer, and Kunal Anand, ex-Imperva and also former BBC Worldwide, as executive vice president-CTO.

Foreign Policy Research Institute elects Aaron Stein, former chief content officer at War on the Rocks and Metamorphic Media, as its next president, his term beginning April 15 ... Metronet taps Craig Cowden, ex-Charter Communications and Bright House Networks, as executive vice president-chief technology and product officer, and Brad Freathy, ex-Verizon Business Group and Charter, as senior vice president-commercial and carrier sales ... WarnerBros. Discovery reduces board size to 11 following resignations of Steven Miron and Steven Newhouse as members … GCT Semiconductor, supplier of 5G and 4G semiconductor solutions, adds Synaptics Chair Nelson Chan to its board ... Twilio adds Andy Stafman, a partner at Sachem Head Capital Management, to its board, expanding it to 10 members.

PlanetLabs announces Kevin Weil, president-product and business, departing, effective May 6, and appoints Ashley Johnson as president in addition to her current roles as chief financial officer … Gannett nominates former Warner Bros. Discovery adviser Maha Al-Emam, also ex-Apple, NBCUniversal Media and Bloomberg, for election to its board at June 3 annual meeting ... Yelp adds Roku Chief Financial Officer Dan Jedda to its board; former Twilio Chief Operating Officer George Hu leaving his Yelp board seat after five years ... PayPal plans to appoint Carmine Di Sibio, retiring EY global chairman-CEO, to its board as an independent director, effective July 1; former Airbnb COO Belinda Johnson to retire from PayPal board, effective with annual meeting in May.