S&P Global Market Intelligence presents a weekly rundown of executive and board changes in the technology, media and telecommunications industries.
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* Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. named Luis Silberwasser chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery Sports. Silberwasser most recently served as president of TelevisaUnivision Inc.'s U.S. Networks Group.
* Meta Platforms Inc. Head of Infrastructure David Mortenson is stepping down, with Vice President of Engineering Santosh Janardhan taking over the role later in June, The Verge reported, citing an internal memo. Mortenson said in the memo that he is not leaving the company for now.
The Americas
* The interim chief of CNN (US)'s digital operations, Alex MacCallum, plans to leave the Warner Bros. Discovery unit on June 30, Variety reported, citing CNN CEO Chris Licht's memo to staff. Chief Technology Officer Robyn Peterson is also leaving the company.
* Rogers Communications Inc. said Loretta Rogers, a director since 1964, has died aged 83. Rogers was the widow of company founder Ted Rogers.
* U.K.-based creative services provider WPP PLC named Michael Houston president of its U.S. business.
* IAC/InterActiveCorp. unit Angi Inc. appointed Andrew Russakoff CFO. Russakoff replaces former CFO Jeff Pedersen, who will remain with the company through July 19 in a consulting capacity.
* Gogo Inc. shareholders elected Mark Anderson, Robert Crandall and Christopher Payne to the company's board. Each director will serve a three-year term that expires at the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders.
* Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. promoted Adam Ware to senior vice president of the growth networks group. Company shareholders, meanwhile, elected all nine nominees for directors at Sinclair's annual meeting, including Executive Chairman David Smith.
* Gannett Co. Inc. appointed Vincent Cirel chief technology officer. Cirel previously served as founder and managing director of Pivotal Technologies LLC.
* Viant Technology Inc. named Dustin Kwan to the newly created role of chief product officer. Kwan joins from Amazon.com Inc., where he led ad products for eight years.
* Snipp Interactive Inc. appointed Adi Dhandhania, Bally's Corp.'s COO for North America Interactive, to the company's board.
* Yahoo Inc. appointed six new directors, including The Honest Co. founder and Chief Creative Officer Jessica Alba, LionTree founder and CEO Aryeh Bourkoff and Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynthia Marshall.
* Fandango Media LLC named Will McIntosh president of the company, Variety reported. McIntosh, who is executive vice president of NBC Sports Next, replaces Paul Yanover.
Europe, Middle East and Africa
* SkyShowtime, the European streaming joint venture between Comcast Corp. and Paramount Global, named Jon Farrar head of programming, Raquel Berzosa regional general manager for Iberia and Richard Thurston chief human resources officer.
* International Business Machines Corp. hired 100 new employees as part of a business rebuilding exercise in Denmark, according to Computerworld.dk. IBM also has 70 more job posts to fill.
* Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled its leadership team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with five senior executives to step down at the same time, Deadline reported.
* Telecom Italia SpA reached an agreement with unions to slash 1,200 jobs in Italy by November through a voluntary early retirement system, Reuters reported, citing two sources. The job cuts will be part of the first round of the Italian telco's plans to reduce its head count, which amounts to about 42,500 people in the country.
* Turkish mobile operator Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS appointed Serdar Çetin to fill in a board vacancy as an independent director.
* France-based market research company Ipsos SA named Dan Lévy group CFO, effective June 10, succeeding Laurence Stoclet.
* French IT company Atos SE appointed Nourdine Bihmane and Philippe Oliva deputy CEOs, following the resignation of CEO Rodolphe Belmer, effective Sept. 30 at the latest, according to Dow Jones Newswires. The appointments come as the company weighs a potential spinoff of its tech foundation unit and big data and security business into separate publicly listed entities.
* Finnish video game developer Rovio Entertainment Oyj appointed Andy Muesse head of studios, effective immediately.
* UKTV appointed BBC Studios Ltd. executive Penny Brough chief marketing officer, effective in September.
* TikTok Inc. plans to employ an additional 1,000 staff in Ireland as part of its expansion strategy. The new hirings will bring the Beijing ByteDance Technology Co. Ltd. unit's total head count in the country to more than 3,000.
* In other TikTok news, Joshua Ma, who leads TikTok's U.K. e-commerce team, will "step back" from his role following an earlier report on the executive's remark that he "did not believe" in the concept of maternity leave, the Financial Times (London) reported, citing a staff email.
* The board of France-based Euronews NBC appointed Guillaume Dubois CEO, effective June 18, succeeding Bénédicte Bachs-Scherrer, who held the position on an interim basis. Bachs-Scherrer will remain CFO.
Asia-Pacific
* Shareholders of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. reelected three directors to its board, including founder, Chairman and CEO Lei Jun and Vice Chairman Lin Bin as executive directors and Timothy Wai Cheung Tong as an independent nonexecutive director.
* PLDT Inc. shareholders elected 13 directors to its board, including Bernido Liu, retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban and Bernadine Siy. The Philippine telco's board subsequently appointed Manuel Pangilinan as chairman and Panganiban as lead independent director.
* Robert Alan Nason will retire as a nonindependent, nonexecutive director of Maxis Bhd., effective June 30. The
* Spark New Zealand Ltd. named Gordon MacLeod and Sheridan Broadbent independent nonexecutive directors, effective Aug. 1. Paul Berriman, meanwhile, will retire from the board at the company's next annual general meeting.
* Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. unit SPH REIT redesignated Soon Tit Koon to nonindependent, nonexecutive director from his current role of independent director.
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* Philippine fiber broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions Inc. named Paulo Martin Santos its chief network transformation officer.
* Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. President Pramod K Mittal and Vodafone Idea Ltd. Chief Regulatory and Corporate Affairs Officer P. Balaji will become chairperson and vice chairperson, respectively, of the Cellular Operators Association of India for the 2022-23 term, The Economic Times (India) reported.
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