Houman Haghighi has followed seven years at corporate venturing unit Qualcomm Ventures by joining Menlo Ventures as a business development partner.

Rasu Shrestha, who had been UPMC's chief innovation officer since 2014, has taken on chief strategy officer and executive vice-president positions at peer Atrium Health.

Meredith Finn, a former senior director at Salesforce Ventures who helped launch its Impact Fund in 2017, will leverage her expertise in enterprise software at March Capital.

David Parfett, who helped Qantas form a CVC unit as head of its Innovation and Ventures team, will do the same for Westfield owner Scentre.

The former Morgan Stanley executive will help manage funds and limited partners on behalf of SoftBank Ventures Asia's as its new chief financial officer.

Steve Taub, formerly a managing director at corporate venturing unit GE Ventures, has joined In-Q-Tel as a partner.

Shell Ventures investment principal Tyler Williams has joined Natural Gas Innovation Fund as an executive committee member.

Michael Yang, managing director at Comcast Ventures for nine years, will oversee Omers Ventures’ US-based office as a managing partner.

NM Future Ventures alumni Alexa von Tobel and Mark Batsiyan have launched Inspired Capital, a venture capital firm aiming to raise $200m for its debut fund.

Ken Asada has left his investment director position at Intel Capital to become managing director at NTT Docomo Ventures.