GSMA elects board including new members Thaddeus Arroyo, AT&T; Allison Kirkby, BT; Ernest Lawrence Cu, Globe; Mike Fries, Liberty Global; Ralph Mupita, MTN; Benedicte Fasmer, Telenor; Ali Taha Koc, Turkcell; and Joe Russo, Verizon … Cloud solutions company Trofeo hires Greg Pierce, ex-3Cloud, as COO ... AI speech technology firm aiOla adds Bhiksha Raj, previously Carnegie Mellon University, as distinguished scientist ... Cybersecurity software company Vhere hires Shayshi Bhalla, ex-Jio, as director-systems engineering ... AI and cloud computing company G42 appoints Ali Dalloul, ex-Microsoft, as group chief strategy officer and CEO-U.S. business.