Internet broadcast backbone provider Cidera, Inc., fresh off a $36 million funding round (see related story), is bringing in a new chief executive officer and an advisory board to help the company's international expansion plans.

Richard J. Hanna, formerly president of Teligent International, a division of Vienna, Va.-based broadband communications provider Teligent, Inc., will take over as CEO effective March 27, while company founder and former CEO Doug Humphrey will continue in an active role as chairman of the board.

Earlier in his career, Hanna led Teligent's domestic sales, marketing and operations organizations, and as president of field operations, he was responsible for broadband infrastructure deployment in the U.S. In the past year as president of Teligent International, he was responsible for Teligent's international business operations.

Prior to joining Teligent International in April 1997, Hanna had been president and CEO MFS Intelenet, based in San Ramon, Calif., and was vice president of AT&T at Basking Ridge, NJ.

Joining the Laurel, Md.-based company's advisory board, which will be chaired by Humphrey, are Wayne Correia, CEO of Capulus, and co-founder and former chief technology officer of Critical Path; Peter Lothberg, network architecture consultant for Sprint, and founder and CEO of Stupi, Inc.; Mike McCurry, former White House Press Secretary, and president of Public Strategies Group, LLC; Dr. Arno Penzias, vice president and chief scientist of Bell Laboratories, and 1978 Nobel Prize-winning physicist; and John Sidgmore, vice chairman of MCI WorldCom, and chairman of UUNET.

Cidera is located at http://www.cidera.com.

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