FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr's policy adviser Greg Watson named chief of staff, succeeding Ben Arden, who returns to Media Bureau; Commissioner Geoffrey Starks’ legal adviser Morgan Bodenarain departs to become policy director-counsel to Congressional Black Caucus; FCC staff retirements: Jeff Tobias, Wireless Bureau; Steve Jones and Stanley Lyles, Office of Engineering and Technology; Penny Blalock, Gloria Conway and Janice Wise, Media Bureau; Eliot Greenwald and Gayle Teicher, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; and Larry Shields and MaryKay Mitchell, Office of Managing Director ... Google Fiber promotes Vice President of Product John Keib to company’s first chief technology and product officer.

Nexstar Media advances Mike Spruill to vice president-general manager, Nashville market broadcast and digital operations … New York Times hires Quartz founding editor Zach Seward as editorial director-AI initiatives … IntelePeer, provider of AI-powered communications automation solutions, names Genesys’ Geoff Chretien senior vice president-channels.

Fiber Broadband Association elects Nex-Tech CEO Jimmy Todd as board chair for one-year term beginning Jan.1 and Sachin Gupta, Centranet director-business development, as secretary; newly elected board members for three-year terms, also beginning Jan. 1, are Ashley Brown, Adtran senior director-field marketing, and Evann Freeman, EPB of Chattanooga vice president-government and community relations.