The internal promotion at Merck Group's corporate venturing subsidiary followed the departure in May of Jasper Bos.

Owen Lozman has been promoted to managing director at M Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of Germany-headquartered pharmaceutical firm Merck Group.

The internal promotion followed the departure of Jasper Bos in May this year to take up a general partner position at Netherlands-based venture capital firm Forbion.

Lozman had previously been running M Ventures’ Performance Materials Fund as a a vice-president since early 2018. He had originally joined Merck subsidiary Merck Chemicals in 2013 as a research and development…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.