Nexstar Media Group names former Turner Broadcasting executive Michael Strober, Topwater Advisory Group founder, executive vice president-chief revenue officer, effective Jan. 2 ... UScellular adds Chief Financial Officer-Treasurer Douglas Chambers and TDS Telecom CEO James Butman to its board, effective Jan. 1 ... EchoStar says Pradman Kaul will retire as Hughes Network Systems president at year-end, but will remain on the board, and promotes Paul Gaske to chief operating officer, effective Jan. 1 ... Fiber-based broadband provider Accelecom names Zayo Group’s Brad Kilbey CEO, succeeding departed David Flessas ... Lattice Semiconductor adds Lam Research’s Douglas Bettinger to its board ... Contentsquare names Ford Senior Vice President-Digital Shashidhar Hiremath, also former Verizon, one of 10 members on its new advisory board ... Electric vehicle charging platform Wallbox hires Google’s Myriam Lhermurier Boublil. as chief communications and public affairs officer, and Procter & Gamble’s Javier Riano as chief marketing officer.
5G communications systems developer COMSovereign promotes interim CEO David Knight to president-CEO and adds him to its board ... Internet services provider BTX Fiber names Point Broadband’s Richard Hogue, also former Comcast, president ... NielsenIQ taps Datavant’s Mike Burwell as chief financial officer, effective Jan. 3; current CFO Chandler Bigelow to leave NielsenIQ Jan. 31 after a transition period ... Lexmark promotes Melanie Hudson to senior vice president-chief commercial officer, effective Thursday, and adds her to its executive team ... Triton Digital names Targetspot’s Josh Yamuder director-partnerships, programmatic marketplace ... Music technology platform Trubify adds music, film and theater producer Ron Gillyard to its board of advisers ... Fiber-to-the-premise broadband provider Consolidated Communications names Fred Graffam, ex-Brinks Home Security, executive vice president-CFO, effective Thursday, succeeding current CFO Steve Childers, becoming an adviser until Dec. 31.
GBH, leading producer of content for PBS, names former National Geographic Editor-in-Chief Susan Goldberg its next president-CEO, its first woman in that role since its 1951 founding ... Virgin Galactic recruits Topgolf Callaway’s Sarah Kim as executive vice president-chief legal officer and corporate secretary, effective Dec. 5 ... Smart mobility company Wejo announces resignation of board member Alan Masarek to become CEO of Avaya ... Semiconductor company Xmos names financial veteran Paul Goodridge special adviser ... Blockchain platform Decentralized Social hires former Meta executive Salil Shah as chief operating officer.
Amazon seeks a writ of mandamus from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit directing U.S. District Judge Alan Albright for the Western District of Texas in Waco to vacate his May 31 order denying Amazon’s transfer of a patent infringement action to the U.S. District Court for Northern California and his Oct. 18 order denying reconsideration and transfer, said Amazon’s petition Thursday (docket 23-104).
Arm adds Nest founder-former CEO Tony Fadell, also ex-Apple, to its board ... Barnes & Noble Education names former Vonage and Verizon executive Hunter Blankenbaker vice president-investor relations ... Canada’s Semiconductor Council names Paul Slaby, ex-Nortel, managing director ... 5G routing company Arrcus taps former Cisco, Citrix, Ericsson and Motorola executive Ashutosh Sharma as head-engineering, India ... Data loss prevention company Next DLP names HelpSystems’ Connie Stack CEO ... DataOps cloud provider Y42 announces Jules Cantwell, ex-Qualtrics, as president, with Max Herrmann, ex-Swim.ai, joining as senior vice president of marketing ... JupiterOne names Sacha Faust, ex-Amazon, as chief innovation officer and Sean Catlett, ex-Slack, as general manager-Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Nexstar's CW Network names Pop TV’s Brad Schwartz president-entertainment, effective Monday; and Nexstar Media's Beth Feldman, executive director-communication, Networks Division, adds to her portfolio senior vice president-network communication, replacing Paul Hewitt, leaving CW after 22 years ... Peacock Chief Commercial Officer Rick Cordella rejoining NBC Sports as president-programming, NBC Sports and Peacock ... Latham & Watkins announces promotions including for its Intellectual Property Litigation Practice: Michelle Ernst and Britt Lovejoy to partners and Allison Blanco and Gabrielle LaHatte to counsel; for Connectivity, Privacy and Information: Britt Lovejoy and Elana Nightingale Dawson to partners; and for Mergers and Acquisitions Practice: Caitlin O’Brien, Mariclaire Petty and Matthew Villar to partners and Alyssa Galinsky, Benjamin Lee, Alexandra Welch McArthur, Gloria Ring, Emily Stegich, Tara Tavernia, Thomas Verity and Stefanie Vincent to counsel, all effective Jan. 1 … MEF industry association of network, cloud, and technology appoints Ericsson’s Mattias Rimbark to technology advisory board.
Nexstar’s CW Network names Rebekah Dopp, ex-Google, executive vice president-distribution, strategy and affiliate relations ... Meta Vice President Dan Rabinovitsj leaves board at voice-enabled SOC supplier QuickLogic, reducing it to seven members ... Kodiak Robotics names Gerhard Eschelbeck, former Google chief information security officer and vice president-security and privacy engineering, CISO ... Nonprofit Kiss the Ground hires former iHeartRadio executive Evan Harrison, also ex-BMG Music, as CEO; co-founder and former Executive Director Ryland Engelhart moves to chief mission officer, newly created role ... Gallium Semiconductor names Akoustis Technologies’ Rohan Houlden, also ex-Qorvo, CEO, succeeding Kin Tan, who will remain adviser ... Postmedia Network Canada promotes Mary Anne Lavallee to executive vice president-chief financial officer and chief transformation officer; she previously was chief operating officer and interim CFO.
Cybersecurity company Absolute Software names Jim Lejeal, ex-VictorOps, chief financial officer, effective Dec. 5, replacing interim CFO Ron Fior, and Samir Sherif, ex-Imperva, chief information security officer, effective immediately ... Semiconductor equipment and services supplier Cohu adds former Coherent CEO Andy Mattes to its board, effective Tuesday ... Forte Group, digital engineering services company, names Capgemini’s Michael Makishima CFO ... Avery Dennison adds former AT&T executive William Wagner to its board ... Web3 intelligence company AnChain.AI adds Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Walker, former SEC digital asset examiner and counsel, as a strategic adviser.
An apparent rift is developing in the dozen or more fraud class actions over Samsung’s summertime data breach, between plaintiffs who want the cases consolidated and transferred to the U.S. District Court for Northern California and those who want them centralized and moved to the U.S. District Court for New Jersey.
Eutelsat Secretary and Group General Counsel Julie Burguburu to step down and will be succeeded by David Bertolotti, director-institutional and international affairs, both effective Dec. 12 ... Global Semiconductor Alliance adds Meta Vice President-Infrastructure Alexis Bjorlin to its board ... Bill, financial automation software company, names Google Cloud Chief Marketing Officer Alison Wagonfeld to its board ... Kroll promotes Giles Derry to president-governance and risk advisory practice ... Kaleidescape recruits Alliance Consumer Group’s Priscilla Morgan as chief operating officer ... Omnicom Group names MediaLink’s Kathleen Saxton chief marketing officer, newly created position, effective Jan. 1 ... Customer experience intelligence platform Disqo adds Nicholas Weaver, ex-Google, as vice president-engineering.