North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) appoints interim Chief Information Officer Greg Hoffman to permanent post ... Avaya’s CEO Alan Masarek to retire at year end; board chair Patrick Dennis, also CEO of cybersecurity firm Venafi, succeeds him Sept. 1 ... AI startup Ada IQ appoints Liz Graham, ex-Indigo, as CEO ... Software company smartShift hires Jagdish Sahasrabudhe, ex-SAP, as chief technology officer ... IT services company CompQsoft appoints Dave Wendel, previously Alithya, as vice president-sales ... O-RAN Alliance elects Deutsche Telekom’s Abdurazak Mudesir as chairman ... Streaming Video Technology Alliance elects Amazon’s Nicolas Weil and Broadpeak’s Guillaume Bichot to board ... Former Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, joins Personal AI board.
Cox Media Group promotes Brad Smith to CFO ... Benchmark Space Systems, space mobility integrator, appoints Chuck Bush, previously Champlain College visiting professor, as CFO ... Aldo Pietropaolo, ex-SGNL, joins identity service company Strata Identity as field chief technology officer ... NetSecurity appoints Mike Hayes, ex-Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, as senior vice president-strategy and business development, and Olivia Lassiter, ex-Northwestern Mutual, as sales executive-private sector ... Passwordless authentication company Secret Double Octopus appoints Astrix Security’s Timothy Youngblood to board.
Peter Chandler, previously TechNet, joins Internet Works as executive director ... Telecommunications technology company Titanium Platform promotes Bruno Lacoste from COO to CEO ... Data center operator Start Campus moves interim CEO Robert Dunn to permanent spot and promotes Luis Rodrigues to COO ... Daryush Laqab, ex-Nvidia, joins software engineering company Ascendion as chief AI officer ... Com Laude appoints consultant Ben Crawford, ex-CentralNic Group, as CEO, succeeding Glenn Hayward, departing as part of transition after company was sold to PX3 Partners ... Cybersecurity company Stairwell appoints Joe DeBlasio, ex-Transmit Security, as vice president-global sales and customer success ... SurgePays names AT&T’s Joseph Gomez as vice president-mobile virtual network operations ...Anterix nominates Scott Lang, ex-Turvo, Heard Capital’s William Heard, and Owl Creek’s Mark Fleischhauer to stand for election to board ... Information management company OpenText appoints Accenture’s Annette Rippert to board ... Sidus Space appoints Jeffrey Shuman, ex-L3Harris, to board.
Nicole Brightbill, ex-U.S. Office of Special Counsel, joins the Consumer Product Safety Commission as chief counsel ... Cybersecurity firm Outpost24 appoints Ido Erlichman, previously Kape Technologies, as CEO ... Data protection company Commvault moves Chief Financial Officer Gary Merrill to chief commercial officer, new post; Jennifer DiRico, ex-Toast, replaces him, effective Aug. 12 ... Cybersecurity provider Becrypt appoints Gavin Newport, ex-7Technologies, as managing director ... Bruce Gordon, ex-GeoDigital, joins IoT provider Kore as executive vice president-chief operating officer ... Siyata Mobile names Robert Escalle, ex-Samsung, vice president-public safety ... Cellular security company OneLayer appoints Drew Ganther, previously Grip Security, as vice president-sales ... Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) elects Niels Fache, Keysight Technology; Hong Sok Choi, Sk-hynix; Juan Rey, Siemens; and Lluis Paris, TSMC, to board.
Datadog, security platform for cloud applications, adds David Galloreese, ex-Figma, as chief people officer.
Ericsson promotes Patrick Johansson to senior vice president and head-market area-Middle East and Africa, effective Aug. 1 ... Avaya names Kamilah Thomas, ex-Roku, senior vice president-chief people officer ... MwareTV appoints NetworkOnomy Ventures’ Sree Sivanandan as vice president-India and Southeast Asia ... Kyndryl, IT services provider, promotes Kim Basile to chief information officer, succeeding Michael Bradshaw, transitioning to lead-applications, data and AI practice; also advances Nicolas Sekkaki to lead-cloud practice ... Intelisys appoints Ken Mills, previously Epic iO, as president.
Courtney Hjaltman, ex-Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel, sworn in as Texas public utility commissioner; Gov. Greg Abbott (R) appointed her last week ... Internet Society Foundation appoints Chris Locke, Caribou Digital founder, as executive vice president-managing director ... BMNT Partners consultancy taps Maria Tranquilli, ex-Mission Acceleration Center, to lead its Common Mission Project, nonprofit hacking education initiative ... Midwest Energy & Communications promotes Terry Rubenthaler, effective Oct. 1, to president-CEO, succeeding Robert Hance, retiring in September ... Tredence, data science and AI provider, promotes Rekha Nair to chief human resources officer ... Lightmatter, photonic computing firm, hires Simona Jankowski, ex-Nvidia, as chief financial officer ... Comcast promotes Javier Garcia to senior vice president-sales and marketing-central division ... Pia, automation platform for managed service providers, appoints CoderPad’s Molly Lindsay as vice president-marketing.
Tucows hires Verizon’s Ivan Ivanov as chief financial officer, effective Aug. 5, to succeed departing Dave Singh ... Infleqtion, quantum information company, taps Pat Tang, ex-IonQ and former Amazon Lab12, as chief engineering officer ... S&P Global promotes Martina Cheung to president-CEO, effective Nov. 1, succeeding Douglas Peterson, remaining on board until May, then becoming special adviser until year-end 2025; also adds Cheung to board ... Kane Infrastructure Services, tech infrastructure provider, hires Gilbert Romo, ex-IES Communications, as chief revenue officer ... Ironclad, digital contracting platform, taps Michel Feaster, ex-Qualtrics, as chief product officer ... KittyHawk, tech investment firm, adds venture capitalist Alexandra Peterson as a partner ... Red River, tech transformation company, promotes Sara Siddiqui to vice president-strategic partnerships.
Jeffrey Strenkowski, previously Uniti Group, joins Troutman Pepper as partner-energy practice, with telecom focus ... Mythic, AI processor company, taps Taner Ozcelik, ex-Luminar Technologies, also former On Semiconductor and Nvidia, as its new CEO ... Core4ce, cybersecurity contractor, expands the role of co-founder Todd Harbour to chief technology officer for newly branded innovation incubator The Forge and hires Kim Kok, ex-Human Security, as vice president-sales and emerging technology and Michael Sass, ex-C3 AI, as head-data engineering and analytics ... Primer Technologies, an AI and machine learning company, names Instabase’s Erin Hawley as chief revenue officer and Joe Chang, ex-Uber, as chief technology officer.
Ballistic Ventures, cybersecurity-dedicated venture capital firm, names co-founder Kevin Mandia general partner ... Nexstar promotes Lloyd Bucher to vice president and general manager-broadcast and digital operations-Philadelphia ... Phonism, SIP device management solution provider, promotes Greg DiFraia to CEO and expands role of founder Steve Lazaridis to president and chief technology officer ... IT solutions provider Auvik adds Mark Ralls, ex-ActivTrak and former Invicti Security, as president, and Bryan Getz, ex-Druva, as chief sales officer ... Thrive, outsourcing provider for cybersecurity and cloud services, hires HP's Scott Steele as chief operating officer ... Smart Global Holdings, computing, memory and LED tech provider, hires Nate Olmstead, ex-Logitech, as senior vice president-chief financial officer.