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Bill Beard, former interim senior vice president of corporate business operations and development at Vertex Aerospace, has been promoted to SVP of corporate operations and strategy.

Edward Rothstein, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former garrison commander at Fort Meade in Maryland, has been named strategic adviser of Catonsville, Maryland-based information technology consulting firm Sparksoft.

Michael Huerta, former head of the Federal Aviation Administration, has been appointed to the advisory board of counter-drone technology maker D-Fend Solutions. He holds almost 30 years of experience in the industrial areas of security and aviation safety, and will contribute to D-Fend's pursuit of technologies that counter unmanned aircraft systems, D-Fend Solutions said Thursday.

Mohammed Farooq, former general manager of IBM operations cloud for hybrid multi-cloud management, has joined Hypergiant Industries as global chief technology officer and a member of its board of directors.

Benjamin Thomas, director of product lines, strategy and integration team at Boeing, has been named president of VSE's aviation segment in a move that takes effect mid-October. He joined Boeing in October 2018 upon its acquisition of aviation parts and services provider KLX, where he previously served as a corporate vice president.

Rachel Schultz, a two-decade government technology market veteran, has joined cybersecurity company AppGate as director of civilian sales, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday.

Paul Kaminski, a 20-year U.S. Air Force veteran and former acquisition chief at the Department of Defense, has joined the federal advisory board of geospatial collaboration software provider Immersive Wisdom.

Laura Boufford, former regional vice president of aerospace sales at Salesforce, has been named director of federal civilian sales at Google, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday. Her technology industry experience encompasses the areas of cloud computing, enterprise information technology and software as a service.

Michael Dallara, a 25-year GovCon and technology services industry veteran, has joined Evoke Consulting as chief operating officer. He will oversee business operations and service delivery activities under his new role.

Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, has been named executive vice president of government affairs and public policy at Voyager Space Holdings. He will oversee Voyager’s government relations and help establish public-private partnerships to grow commercial space capabilities through the company’s Washington D.C. office.

Aerospace Corp. has named veteran defense leaders Cecil Haney, Michael McCord and Vincent Stewart to the board of trustees.

Teena Lavu, formerly a senior director at NTT Data Services, has been named vice president of civilian programs at Reston, Virginia-based information technology services provider Electrosoft.

Andrew Borene, managing director for the U.S. public sector at endpoint security company Cybereason, has been named to the executive board of the National Defense Industrial Association’s special operations and low-intensity conflict division. He will also chair NDIA’s industry outreach committee.

Retired U.S. Navy Adm. James Winnefeld has joined the federal advisory board of communication security technology provider SpiderOak Mission Systems. The nearly four-decade military veteran will be part of a group that aims to help SpiderOak align business pursuits and product development efforts with government customer requirements, the company said Wednesday.

Greg Davis, senior vice president of growth at Emagine IT, has been elevated to the chief growth officer role at Fairfax, Virginia-based information technology and consulting services provider.