Hill + Knowlton forms new Intelligence + Technology business unit under leadership of Chief Technology Officer Grant Toups, and names Allison Spray global head-Intel + Tech innovation, in addition to her continuing research and data intelligence role in the U.K., and Elliott Gauthier global head-Intel + Tech products and services, in addition to his continuing research and data intelligence role in Canada ... Charter Communications announces that Tom Rutledge will move to board member emeritus when his previously announced retirement as executive chairman takes effect Nov. 30; Charter board also appoints President-CEO Chris Winfrey to the seat that Rutledge will vacate, and names lead independent director Eric Zinterhofer nonexecutive chairman, both also effective Nov. 30.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chairman, promotes William Wu to committee staff director and Maria Mahler-Haug to deputy staff director ...Senate confirms Michael Whitaker as FAA administrator (see 2310250041) … Nintex intelligent process automation company, hires Sean Goldstein, ex-Lucid Software and Salesforce, as chief revenue officer, and adds Asana's Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh to board … Entravision adds CEO Michael Christenson and former Snap Chief People Officer Lara Sweet to its board; Juan Saldivar von Wuthenau resigns his board seat but remains Entravision’s chief digital, strategy and accountability officer ... Flexxon, hardware-based cybersecurity solutions company, adds former Intel and Microsoft executive Ravi Agarwal to its advisory board.

Nexstar promotes Steven Blanchard to vice president-general manager of its broadcasting and digital operations in Richmond, including WRIC-TV and wric.com, plus their related digital and social media channels ... Plume, SaaS platform for communications service providers, hires Palo Alto Networks’ Valerie Buckingham as chief marketing officer and Adrian Fitzgerald, ex-Sandvine and Oracle, as chief revenue officer ... Machine learning company SiMa.ai taps Amazon Web Services’ Elizabeth Samara-Rubio, also former Accenture, as chief business officer ... Media analytics firm Toluna promotes Dixit Chanana to managing director of the India offices of Toluna and MetrixLab, the market research company that Toluna acquired in June; Ravi Radhakrishnan departs as MetrixLab India managing director.

Altice’s Optimum appoints Jennifer Garrett, from Charter Communications, as chief marketing officer … Alphawave Semi, high-speed connectivity chipmaker, hires Rahul Mathur, Avantus, as chief financial officer, effective Oct. 30 ... ZenCase, legal software solutions developer, taps Olivia Mockel, ex-PCLaw | Time Matters, as president-chief operating officer.

Tech9 software development company names DataBased’s Nate Richard, also ex-Qualtrics, chief revenue officer … BAI Connect, hybrid fiber/wireless internet services provider, names BroadVoice’s Kevin Connor chief financial officer ... Graybar, data networking products distributor, promotes Brad Lee to district vice president-California ... USTelecom announces newly elected officers and board members: Chair Jason Williams, Blackfoot Communications; Vice Chair Jeff England, Silver Star Communications; Secretary Melissa Mann, Lumen; Treasurer Rusty Moore, BBT; directors Tom Maguire, Brightspeed and Harold Zeitz, Ziply Fiber; Leadership Committee Chair Jennifer Prather, Totelcom Communications; Vice Chair Becky Scott, Epic Touch; and Secretary Josh Descant, REV Broadband.

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces retirement of Public Safety Bureau’s Sharon Weigel after more than 46 years with the agency … The Goodfriend Group, which lobbies on behalf of media, tech and telecom, and healthcare lobbying firm Emmer Consulting relaunch as I Street Advocates, with Goodfriend’s David Goodfriend as president, Emmer’s Sue Emmer as founder, and Sports Fan Coalition’s Brian Hess and Brian Young, ex-American Postal Workers Union, as vice presidents.

PacketFabric network-as-a-service company announces Vincent English, ex-Megaport, as CEO … Sigmoid data engineering and AI consulting firm appoints Shankar Viswanathan, ex-Procter & Gamble, chief commercial officer ... Spectrotel, communication services provider, names Observe.ai’s Robert Fish, also ex-Intelisys, vice president-south region channel sales ... Riedel Communications names European Media Group’s Lucy O’Brien director-customer success, Europe, the Middle East and Africa ... Truecaller, global communications platform, names MetaMap’s Ogochukwu Onwuzurike country manager-Nigeria, and Uber’s Nicolas Vargas country manager-Colombia.

Airgain, wireless connectivity solutions provider, names Evan Jones, ex-Sierra Wireless, vice president-engineering ... Luna Innovations, fiber telecom company, taps Intelsat’s George Gomez-Quintero as chief financial officer; departing CFO Gene Nestro will assist company through transition until mid-2024 ... Bluepeak names Leslie Norgren, ex-WideOpenWest, vice president-marketing … Lantronix picks board member Jason Cohenour as interim chairman following the death of Chairman Paul Folino Saturday.

Internet service provider Smartaira names Hotwire’s Darren Rish, also ex-Comcast, CEO, and moves founder and former CEO Dan Terheggen to board chairman ... Morse Micro, fabless semiconductor company specializing in IoT connectivity, hires Stryker’s Prakash Guda as vice president-marketing and product management ... 1Global, telecom company headquartered in London, adds former Vodafone Germany CEO Hannes Ametsreiter to its board as a nonexecutive director.

With Microsoft’s closing Friday of its $69 billion Activision Blizzard buy (see 2310130041), Activision CEO Bobby Kotick tells employees he will remain in that role through the end of 2023, reporting to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer ... SES names Adel Al-Saleh, from Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems International, CEO, effective in February; interim SES CEO Ruy Pinto will continue in that role through January, then will remain an executive team member until June before becoming adviser; Milton Torres, who succeeded Pinto as chief technology officer on an interim basis when Pinto became interim CEO, will continue in that role ... Comcast moves Javier Garcia to senior vice president-competitive marketing and strategy, Central Division headquarters in Atlanta ... S&P Global Mobility names Jato Dynamics’ Matt Weiss executive director-product strategy and pricing solutions, newly created role ...