Amazon Web Services has hired Ewa Treitz from fund manager Black Pearls as a business development manager to work with startups.

Douglas Flint has been appointed as chairman of IP Group, taking over from Mike Humphrey on November 1.

Caroline Dreyer has been promoted after serving as deputy general manager of regional TTO Satt Conectus in Alsace for six years.

Ngaio Merrick has been on the commercialisation initiative's board since 2016, having previously worked with a municipal development agency.

Suat Topsu, a professor at University of Paris-Saclay, has been appointed president of Satt IDF Innov, one of France’s regional tech transfer organisations.

Abigail Barrow will stand down as interim executive director of University of Massachusetts's office of technology commercialization on September 14 after three and a half years.

Aldi Adrian Hartanto has departed from Mandiri Capital after two years to take up a position at another Indonesia-based corporate venturing unit.

Leigh Sullivan will leave his position as vice-chancellor for research and innovation at Federation University Australia to take on the same position at Canberra.

Lisa Suennen, a GE Ventures managing director that focused on healthcare, has left after two years at the unit.

Brooke Beier has been promoted to vice-president of Purdue's office of technology commercialization, having started there as a project manager in 2013.