New hires at Grindr, social network for the LGBTQ community: Zac Katz, former FCC chief of staff and chief counsel under President Barack Obama, as general counsel and head-global affairs; Tristan Pineiro, ex-King, also former Netflix, as vice president-brand and communications; and Solmaz Shariat Torbaghan, ex-Varian, as director-AI and machine learning ... NTT Research names Timothee Leleu, ex-University of Tokyo, senior research scientist and a group head-Physics and Informatics (PHI) Lab; it also names Victor Bastidas, from National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, and Maya Okawa, from Kyoto University, research scientists in the PHI Lab; Abhishek Jain, from Johns Hopkins University, joins as senior scientist in the Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab; and Manae Abe, from Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, becomes marketing coordinator; joining NTT Research as post-doctoral fellows are Kyungduk Kim, Midya Parto and Ryotatsu Yanagimoto in the PHI Lab; and Naresh Boddu Goud and Xiao Liang in the CIS Lab ... Faraday Future, electric mobility ecosystem company, names Healthpeak Properties’ Scott Graziano, also ex-Western Digital, global general counsel ... Quantum Computing adds New York University’s Javad Shabani to its technical advisory board, expanding it to four members ... Voyager Space adds former Air Force Chief Scientist Mark Lewis,Purdue Applied Research Institute, to its advisory board ... Spectra7 Microsystems, supplier of analog semiconductor products for broadband connectivity markets, names Kumu Networks’ Steffen Hahn senior vice president-engineering ... Syniverse names Sandra Rose, ex-Santander Consumer USA, chief human resources officer.