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Check out the most important hires, promotions, departures and layoffs from Atlanta technology companies from May 2018. Know of a name that’s missing from this list? Email mhogan@americaninno.com
The Savannah Economic Development Authority named Jennifer Bonnett as vice president of innovation and entrepreneurship. Bonnett was most recently the general manager of the Advanced Technology Development Center, the state’s incubator, at Georgia Tech. In her new role, she will be responsible for developing and implementing a marketing and business development action plan that attracts creative production, design and technology prospects to Savannah.
Landing Lion, a landing page platform based in Atlanta that lets digital marketers build pages without coding, announced Lindsay Trinkle as the company’s director of customer success. She joined Landing Lion with more than five years of experience working with entrepreneurs across all industries, including Atlanta Tech Village, Center of Civic Innovation and Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Company.
Endeavor Atlanta selected BitPay's Stephen Pair and LeaseQuerey's George Azih and Chris Ramsey as Endeavor Entrepreneurs at its recent selection panel meeting in Louisville. The three entrepreneurs were selected as Endeavor Entrepreneurs at Endeavor’s 79th International Selection Panel in Louisville. Endeavor is a nonprofit organization that selects and supports entrepreneurs leading high growth businesses across all industries.
DataPath, a software and telecommunications firm based in Duluth offering solutions to the defense, aerospace, broadcast and government sectors, selected Sherin Kamal as the company’s new president and CEO, according to a news release. He will officially assume the position June 11. Kamal most recently served as chief engineer and senior director of technical services at SAIC, a Virginia-based firm that provides government services and information technology support.
Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, an AmLaw 200 firm, named Elizabeth “Bess” Hinson as the new chair for the firm’s cybersecurity and privacy practice. Hinson is a well-known privacy attorney and founder of the Atlanta Women in Cybersecurity Roundtable. Hinson is based in the Atlanta office and joins as a senior associate in MMM’s technology transactions group. She works closely with the firm’s current privacy lawyers who also focus in the areas of litigation, healthcare and data breaches.
Comcast named Elianna Carlton as the regional vice president of human resources in Atlanta. Carlton most recently served as senior director of employee relations and engagement at the company’s central division headquarters in Atlanta. She is based in Norcross and oversees all human resources for the company’s southeast region.
Magnus Egerstedt was appointed as the new chairman of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech. Egerstedt will begin his position Aug. 1. He is currently the executive director for Georgia Tech’s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines.
