April McClain-Delaney says she has left her position as NTIA deputy assistant secretary, reportedly to run for Congress in Maryland’s 6th District … Utah Aerospace and Defense Association appoints former Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, its new chair ... Voxx International extends contract of CEO Pat Lavelle through February 2025, and names Loriann Shelton chief financial officer, in addition to her current role as chief operating officer, effective March 1, when current CFO-Senior Vice President Michael Stoehr moves to senior vice president-treasurer ... Pitney Bowes names Executive Vice President-Group President Jason Dies interim CEO; Marc Lautenbach departs as president-CEO and as a board member, reducing board to eight members ... Ericsson acting Chief Compliance Officer Jan Sprafke to permanent post …ALM, media, information and intelligence company, names Altrata’s Richard Green chief commercialization officer ... Tegna names Kristie Gonzales president-general manager at WXIA/WATL in Atlanta, effective Oct. 23, in addition to continuing as Tegna vice president-media operations ... Hearst TV announces retirement of John Baldwin, WBAL Baltimore creative services director, effective year’s end.

Synopsys hires Ampere Computing’s Ann Minooka as chief marketing officer ... WNET Group promotes Vice President-Development Vanessa Wise to vice president-advancement and chief strategy officer ... TD Synnex, edge-to-cloud IT portfolio company, adds former Kony Chief Financial Officer Kathy Crusco and current Accuris CEO Claude Pumilia to its board, expanding it to 13 members.

Computer & Communications Industry Association names economics consultant and policy expert Matthew Sinclair, former chief economic adviser-10 Downing Street, senior director of its new London office ... Sony Interactive Entertainment President-CEO Jim Ryan to retire in March; Hiroki Totoki, Sony Group president-chief operating officer and chief financial officer, will become SIE chairman in October, and will be appointed interim CEO of SIE, effective April 1, in addition to his current Sony Group roles ... Sony Interactive Entertainment President-CEO Jim Ryan to retire in March; Hiroki Totoki, Sony Group president-chief operating officer and chief financial officer, will become SIE chairman in October, and will be appointed interim CEO of SIE, effective April 1, in addition to his current Sony Group roles.

NASA names Charity Weeden, ex-Astroscale, associate administrator leading Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy … Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) appoints Nevada Tax Commissioner Randy Brown, ex-AT&T, to the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada … Sidus Space promotes board member Leonardo Riera to board chair, succeeding founder Carol Craig, who remains CEO, and promotes Jared Novick to chief operating officer ... Cybersecurity platform Secuonix hires Skybox Security’s Haggai Polak as chief product officer ... Ipsos MMA names Comcast’s Charlie Hinton, also ex-AT&T, vice president-analytic consulting ... Dell Technologies adds former Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf to its board; Simon Patterson, managing director of Silver Lake, resigns his board seat.

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez appoints Deena Shetler, deputy chief of staff for administration-Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel’s office, as acting chief of staff and legal adviser for media and international; Edyael Casaperalta, chief of staff-Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, as acting legal adviser for Wireless, Public Safety and Consumer Protection; Hayley Steffen, legal adviser to bureau chief-Wireline Bureau, as acting legal adviser for Wireline and Space; and Anna Holland, staff assistant to bureau chief-Wireline Bureau, as acting executive assistant … Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo names Sean McDevitt, consulting firm Arthur D. Little partner, FirstNet Authority board member (see 2309260042) ... Department of State announces Patricia Gruber, ex-Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global, as science and technology adviser to the secretary of state, heading the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser.

Incompas adds Jeff Garte, Boldyn Networks president-Northeast business, to its board ... Global Satellite Operators Association names ManSat Chief Financial Officer Rachel Beattie its new treasurer ... Universal Music Group announces Vice Chair Anna Jones, former Hearst Magazines U.K. CEO, retiring from its board, effective Sept. 30 ... Live events producer ASM Global names Live Nation’s Alex Bowen vice president-live entertainment ... Instacart adds Sequoia Capital partner Ravi Gupta to its board; Gupta was Instacart’s chief financial officer and chief operating officer before leaving for Sequoia in 2019 ...

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced the promotion of Will Wiquist to deputy director-communications (see 2309210046).

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces additions of Johannes Bauer, on leave from Michigan State University, as chief economist (see 2309210034), and Jonathan Uriarte, ex-office of Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as press secretary, succeeding Paloma Perez, who rises to communications director; and promotion of Will Wiquist to deputy director-communications, succeeding Anne Veigle (see 2309050069); and departures of longtime staffers Michael Carowitz, most recently deputy chief-Enforcement Bureau, and Tracey Weisler, senior adviser-International Bureau, who's taking a teaching position at Stanford University; Rosenworcel also announces Office of Economics and Analytics’ Lester Roberts as Excellence in Engineering Award winner for work on making emergency alert system more resilient and Media Bureau’s John Gabrysch as the Excellence in Economic Analysis Award winner for work in developing tools and methods for analyzing interference in the AM radio service.

RapidDeploy cloud platform for public safety names Dami Bullock, ex-Ande Corp., chief revenue officer and David Stack, ex-RepTrak, chief financial officer … AI marketing platform Phrasee names Dan Head, ex-Braze, CEO; founding CEO Parry Malm remains on the board ... Data protection company Commvault names Microsoft’s Sarv Saravanan its first chief customer officer.

Arteria AI, digital documentation infrastructure company, names Goldman Sachs’ Donna Mansfield a strategic account director ... Pantheon, website operations platform for developers, designers and marketers, names ZoomInfo’s John Gardiner chief operating and chief financial officer ... SafeGuard Cyber, security and compliance solutions platform for communication-based threats, promotes Scott Windfelder to chief revenue officer ... Semperis, identity-driven cyber resilience company, hires Symantec’s Mike DeGaetano as chief revenue officer ... Mitel names ServiceMax’s Sophie Ames executive vice president-chief people officer ... Eastern Communications names McKinsey & Co.’s Thomas Alessi vice president-transformation.