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Verizon made two changes to its board of directors following the retirement of two prominent board members. In a statement, M. Frances Keeth, now former lead director of the board, said that the changes are to position Verizon for “continued leadership in the 5G era.”

Lowell McAdam retired as chairman of Verizon's board of directors. McAdam has served as chairman since January 2012, serving through the majority of his tenure as Verizon CEO. He was CEO from August 2011 to August 2018. He will remain on the board until May 2.

The board elected Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg as McAdam’s replacement as chairman. Vestberg took over for McAdam as CEO in August 2018, and has served on the board since June 2018. He initially joined Verizon in April 2017, as its executive vice president of network and technology and CTO.

Verizon also elected Clarence Otis as the lead director of the board, succeeding Keeth, who is retiring from the board in May. Otis has served on the board since 2006. He was formerly the CEO of Darden Restaurants. Keeth has also served on the board since 2006.

Another board member, Richard Carrion, said that he will not stand for re-election at the company's annual meeting in May. Carrion has served on the board since 2000.

Vestberg’s and Otis’s new roles will be effective March 8, 2019.

Verizon currently has 12 board members.

Edge computing company Stratus Technologies appointed John Vincente as CTO and Walter Loh as CFO.

Twenty-year Oracle veteran Monica Kumar joined Nutanix as its senior vice president of marketing.

Avaya hired Kieran McGrath as its SVP and CFO, replacing Pat O’Malley who transitioned to a new role as SVP of the company’s growth initiatives.

Commvault named Anthony Faustini as the VP of sales for the Americas. It also hired Karen Falcone as its vice president of worldwide cloud and service providers business.

Security firm Illumio hired Anup Singh as its CFO. It also named angel investor John Hinshaw to its board of directors.

Rubrik hired former VMware sales executive Brett Shirk as its chief revenue officer.

Prevoty co-founder Kunal Anand was named CTO of Imperva following Imperva’s acquisition of Prevoty in 2018.

Scale Computing hired Dan Pierce as its VP of strategic sales and Marlena Fernandez as its VP of marketing.

DigitalOcean appointed Barry Cooks as CTO.

Masergy named Bob Laskey as its CRO and executive vice president of its sales and marketing organizations.

Pivot3 hired ex-Dell EMC VP Dan Flood as the VP of its U.S. sales division.

Following Kontron’s acquisition of Incoybe, Kontron named former Incoybe CEO John Zannos as its CRO and Incoybe founder Mathieu Lemay as chief strategy officer.

Aryaka appointed Olen Scott as its SVP of worldwide channels.

Vivian Vitale and Michael Szabados joined NetScout’s board of directors.

Charter Communications promoted David Lange to SVP of programming acquisition. It also promoted Julie Unruh to SVP of programming financial operations and analytics.

Forward Networks hired Denis Maynard as its CRO.

Former president and CEO of F5 Networks John McAdam joined ExtraHop’s board of directors.

Google hired John Honeycutt as its VP of telecom, media, and entertainment. Honeycutt was the CTO of Discovery.

Christopher Smith, VP of global security services at CenturyLink,  joined RiskSense’s board of directors.

Accedian appointed its founder Patrick Ostiguy as executive chairman of the board. It also named former COO Dion Joannou as CEO and board director.

Nextiva named Phil Steitz as its CTO.

Deborah Chase Hopkins joined Deep Instinct’s board of directors.

Former VMware and Cisco executive Jim Ortbals joined IT resilience company Zerto as its VP of worldwide channel and cloud sales.

Software-defined block storage company Excelero hired Sven Breuner as field CTO.

Global data center company CyrusOne hired John McCloskey as its VP of hyperscale and cloud sales.

Software provider Persistent Systems named Chris O’Connor as its CEO Designate. O’Connor joins from IBM's IoT business unit.

Security company HackerOne appointed Hilarie Koplow-McAdams to its board of directors.

Data catalog company Alation named Raj Gossain as its SVP of product and Junaid Saiyed as its VP of engineering.

Security services provider IOActive added Brook Schoenfield to its advisory services team as the director.

Security company Prevalent named Kevin Hickey as CEO and created three new C-suite positions. Brad Hibbert was named CSO; Brendan Evers as CRO; and Mike Yaffe as chief marketing officer.

Identity and verification platform Evident ID opened its first international office in Kraków, Poland, plans to triple its headcount over the next year, and hired Matt Quarles as its first CRO.

CRM software provider Copper promoted M.G. Thibaut from SVP of finance to CFO.