Tom Lounibos is retiring after nearly 50 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and, most recently, as a corporate investor.

Four years after he left BMW's CVC unit for venture firm Fifth Wall, former associate Cedric Char is joining its US office as principal.

Robert Li, former vice president of venture investing at Citi Ventures, will lead business operations and strategy at Parafin.

Alastair Hick, who has spent almost the past two decades in commercialisation roles at Monash University, will take over from Peter Devine in December.

Tomoyuki Otsu joined Mitsubishi straight after university and took part in various business development and VC roles.

Jason Bennett initially worked with startups seeking to access AWS cloud technology when he joined the company in 2010.

Divya Raghavan has departed from NGP Capital after four years to invest in software, data and AI on behalf of electronics producer Hitachi.

Austin Hwang is the first external hire at ADVentures.

Florian Hirschberger has worked at the German mass media company's growth stage investment division since 2014.

After almost five years as vice president of corporate development and ventures for ServiceNow, Vishal Kumar Gupta is moving on to new pastures.