Alok Agrawal has left his role as the head of Canadian electronics company Celestica's CVC unit after more than five years with the company.

Tech transfer arm Edinburgh Innovations has created a new role of director of venture creation to increase the number of companies it spins out.

She was previously a chief entrepreneur at hearing, audio, video and gaming solutions manufacturer GN Group.

Van Wensveen worked in commercialisation at Austrialian government research organisation CSIRO for more more than three years before joining the ventures fund.

Tobias Egle has left his role working for the tech and biotech venture fund M Ventures after three years at the CVC.

Jason McBride has joined venture capital firm AIX Ventures as partner.

Ryan Pletka has joined US utilities provider Pacific Gas and Electric to head up its Innovation Accelerator programme for cleantech ventures.

Gundi joins Northern Gritstone at a time of capital expansion at the investment company.

The company veteran takes over the helm of Halliburton Labs.

Shimizu replaces Kazuhiko Chuman at KDDI’s Open Innovation Fund.