Windstream taps Chairman Paul Sunu as president-CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Tony Thomas, departing from company and vacating his board seat ... BlackBerry announces John Chen will retire as executive chair-CEO, effective Saturday, and taps Richard Lynch, a BlackBerry board member since 2013, and former Verizon chief technology officer, to succeed Chen as board chair, also naming him interim CEO ... Inseego 5G edge cloud company appoints Steve Harmon, ex-Sierra Wireless, as chief revenue officer, newly created role ... Sidus Space promotes Lindsey Waitt to LizzieSat program manager in anticipation of Sidus’ LizzieSat constellation launch with SpaceX beginning in first quarter of 2024; Jamie Adams departs as Sidus chief technology officer and vacates his board seat; with Waitt and others assuming CTO duties, Sidus eliminates the CTO role.

Space company SpinLaunch names Avolon founder Domhnal Slattery chairman; adds Bolt.io's Greg McAdoo to its board; and expands its advisory board to include former Verizon Wireless and Verizon Consumer Group CEO Ronan Dunne and Investment Diplomacy Group CEO David Scott ... Newly added to Finch AI board: Teresa Carlson, Global Reliance general catalyst adviser; Carol Melton, Adeft Capital founder-CEO and former Time Warner executive vice president-global public policy for HBO, Warner Bros. and Turner; and Heather Podesta, founder-CEO of Invariant, government relations and communications firm.