US Cellular named Mary N. Dillon, former McDonald’s Corp. marketing executive, as CEO. She will begin June 1 when CEO John E. Rooney retires. Dillon serves as global CMO at McDonald’s, where she has worked since 2005. Prior to that, she was president of PepsiCo Inc.’s Quaker Foods division.
Andrew Miller has been named Polycom’s new president and CEO. Miller, who was previously with Cisco before joining Polycom last year, will replace Robert Hagerty, who is also resigning from the board. David DeWalt, Polycom’s current lead and independent director, will become chairman of the board.
Parametric Technology has named Jim Heppelmann CEO, effective October 1 this year. Heppelmann is PTC’s president and COO.
Merge Healthcare appointed Jeff Surges to its board. Surges is currently president of U.S. sales for Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions.
Ian Stewart was appointed to Nitinat Mineral’s board of directors. Stewart co-founded Stratacon, the largest sub-metering company in Canada. Stewart was appointed to the board after the resignation of Wayne Isaacs.
Constellation Software recently appointed Mark Leonard and John Billowits to Gladstone PLC’s board of directors. Leonard is the president and Billowits is CFO at Constellation. Billowits will assume the interim CEO role at Gladstone to assist in the integration of of Gladstone into Constellation.
Bull, an information technology company, appointed Philippe Vannier as chairman and CEO. Vannier has been chairman of the management board of Crescendo Industries, a private investment company, as well as chairman and CEO of Amesys.