Comment by Alan Martinovich, partner, head of the North American strategy and organisation practice, Arthur D Little

Comment by James Mawson, editor-in-chief, Global Corporate Venturing, Stefan Gabriel, CEO, Hitachi Ventures, Kenichi Funaki, deputy general manager for the corporate venturing office, Hitachi

Comment by Vatsal Gaur, partner, Pier Counsel, Adam Salkin, partner, Herzog, Fox & Neeman

Comment from Patrick Flesner, partner, LeadX Capital Partners

Last month, Jeff Herbst departed from US-headquartered semiconductor technology provider Nvidia, where he had led its business development activities and corporate venture capital (CVC) unit Nvidia GPU Ventures for two decades starting in 2001.