San Francisco—Media company UBM Tech has named Kathleen Connolly as exec VP-sales for its business technology events group. She succeeds Marco Pardi, who is now president of UBM Tech's business technology events business. Connolly will be responsible for driving revenue, customer engagement and improved ROI for the group, which includes events such as 4G World, Cloud Connect, E2, Enterprise Connect, GTEC, HDI, Interop, Mobile Commerce World, Online Marketing Summit, TelcoVision and Tower Summit. She was most recently VP-sales at UBM Studios.