Ron Arnold, who had headed the Australia-based insurer’s corporate venturing arm for nearly six years, has departed in order to launch professional services firm 11eight.

Almi Väst's Sara Wallin has been selected to lead Chalmers Ventures and will take over from acting CEO Gunnar Fernström in December 2020.

John Öhd is to become Karolinska Institute's chief scientific officer on the back of 13 years of biotech industry expertise.

Hiroyuki Ueno's work at Kyoto University's venture fund has been rewarded with a promotion to senior officer and executive manager.

Comcast Ventures has formed an early-stage vehicle to back consumer technology developers, investing between $500,000 and $2m per deal.

Telkom’s investment division has recruited a former partner at AC Ventures, Donald Wihardja, as CEO with the role having been vacant for the past nine months.

Yuan Gao, formerly head of strategic investments, has ascended to head of corporate strategy and investments, almost five years after joining the parent company.

The marketing agency has partnered its ISID subsidiary to form a new open innovation arm in Silicon Valley, appointing Dentsu Ventures’ Yu Hirayama to manage the initiative.

EMV Capital managing director Ilian Iliev has replaced Ian Postlethwaite as CEO of NetScientific on a part-time basis.

Verizon corporate development manager David Liu has moved to a principal position at the telecoms firm's corporate venturing unit to target 5G technology developers.