Space systems company Rocket Lab USA adds retired U.S. Space Force Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno to its board ... Media company the Arena Group taps Katie Kulik from CBS as chief revenue officer ... PayPal hires EY’s Jamie Miller, also former Cargill and General Electric, as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Monday, succeeding acting CFO Gabrielle Rabinovitch; PayPal also moves Chief Information Officer Archie Deskus to executive vice president-chief technology officer, succeeding Sri Shivananda, departing company at the end of the year ... Social media company Qyou Media taps Raj Mishra, ex-Triller and also former TikTok, as group CEO-India operations.

Effectv, Comcast Cable’s ad sales division, hires Snap’s Chris Vail as vice president-political sales, replacing Dan Sinagoga, moving to Effectv senior adviser-political sales ... Optical Internetworking Forum, optical networking industry’s interoperability consortium, elects Nathan Tracy, TE Connectivity, to its board and to serve as president; newly elected OIF officers are Karl Bois, Nvidia, technical committee chair; Tom Issenhuth, Huawei Technologies, market awareness and education committee co-chair; and Klaus-Holger Otto, Nokia, technical committee vice chair ... Yahoo taps Lyft’s Sona Iliffe-Moon, also former Facebook and Instagram, as chief communications officer ... Tech investment firm Bridge Growth Partners adds Next Tier Cybersecurity President Eric Friedberg and Patrick Ostiguy, founder of Accedian, a network performance monitoring company, as senior advisers ... Ballistic Ventures, venture capital firm for cybersecurity industry startups, adds former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis and Kiersten Todt, former chief of staff, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as federal advisers.

Windstream taps Chairman Paul Sunu as president-CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Tony Thomas, who has decided to leave Windstream and vacate his board seat ... 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 ... 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 solutions company, appoints Steve Harmon, ex-Sierra Wireless, as chief revenue officer, newly created role ... Logitech taps Unilever’s Hanneke Faber as its next CEO, effective Dec. 1; Logitech board member Guy Gecht became interim CEO after former CEO Bracken Darrell departed in July.

Morgan Murphy Media announces retirement of General Counsel Richard Burns and the promotion of media attorney Jonathan Allen to the leadership role, both effective Dec. 31; Burns will remain on the company’s board, and is being named a special adviser to the executive team ... SmartNews, global information and news discovery company, names co-founder Kaisei Hamamoto CEO, and moves outgoing CEO Ken Suzuki to executive chair, both effective Wednesday; new SmartNews hire is Google's Cory Ondrejka, also ex-Meta, as chief technology officer ... Commvault adds Hathaway Global Strategies President Melissa Hathaway as a strategic adviser and as chairperson for Commvault's newly formed Cyber Resilience Council; Hathaway also was director of the Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force under President George W. Bush, and she also led the Cyberspace Policy Review under President Barack Obama ... Futurum Group acquires Business Podcast Network (BPN), and taps BPN founder and former CEO Cory Johnson as its chief market strategist ... Geospatial intelligence company Maxar Intelligence hires Riverbed Technology’s Dan Smoot, also former Salesforce, Cisco and VMWare, as CEO, effective Nov. 6; interim CEO Daniel Jablonsky moves to Maxar’s board with Smoot’s arrival.

Adobe adds Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon to its board, expanding it to 12 members ... BuzzFeed promotes Executive Vice President-Finance and Treasurer Matt Omer to chief financial officer, effective Nov. 6; current CFO Felicia DellaFortuna leaving BuzzFeed before the end of November.

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 ... Liberty Media announces retirement of Albert Rosenthaler as chief corporate development officer, effective Jan. 1, when he will become a senior adviser ... American Tower announces that Tom Bartlett will retire as president-CEO and from the board, effective Feb. 1, and promotes Steve Vondran to succeed him in those roles, also effective Feb. 1, also naming him executive vice president-global chief operating officer for the interim period beginning Wednesday through Feb. 1; Eugene Noel to replace Vondran as American Tower’s executive vice president and president of its U.S. Tower Division, also beginning Wednesday.

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 ... Digital Extremes, video game development studio, promotes Chief Creative Officer Steve Sinclair to CEO, replacing founder James Schmalz, who remains on the board ... Nintex, intelligent process automation company, hires Lucid Software's Sean Goldstein, also former Salesforce, as chief revenue officer, and adds Asana's Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh to its board.

Nexstar promotes Steven Blanchard to vice president-general manager of its broadcasting and digital operations in Richmond, Virginia, 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 names Jennifer Garrett, from Charter Communications, 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.

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 ... BAI Connect, hybrid fiber/wireless internet services provider, hires BroadVoice’s Kevin Connor as chief financial officer ... Graybar, data networking products distributor, promotes Brad Lee to district vice president-California ... U.S.-Japan Foundation adds International House of Japan Chairman James Kondo, also a current OpenAI senior adviser and former Twitter Japan chairman, to its board of trustees ... Tech9, software development company, announces DataBased’s Nate Richard, also ex-Qualtrics, as chief revenue officer.