Steve Smith has expanded his role at National Grid Partners to become the energy utility group's new chief strategy and regulation officer.

Joseph Tou and Simone Lavizzari left the Japanese conglomerate's CVC unit, the latter having taken up an investment manager role at Join Capital.

Mart Maasik has stepped down as chief executive of UniTartu Ventures at the University of Tartu to join a $63 spinout investment fund.

Vincent Coole, who built a programme University of Birmingham programme to commercialise technology before creating a spinout, has joined Trinity College Dublin.

Ravi Jain will lead Indian investments for TDK Ventures, the investment arm of Japanese tech company TDK.

Rajeev Misra is formally leaving his leadership role at SoftBank's venture capital arm after seven years defined by controversy.

Hadar Pode left her Israel-based managing director position at Porsche Digital after six years, without disclosing her new role.

Ex-ecommerce executive Edouard Chavassieu has joined InMotion Ventures as an associate and will help it expand its activities in mainland Europe.

Adam Coccari has become the managing director of HubSpot Ventures following two years leading US business software provider Intuit's CVC.