MacTough, who said he would be at the GCVI Summit in Monterey in January, had joined Liberty in July 2015 just after Robinson had set up its Strategic Ventures unit.

Taejoon Park has become the second high-profile departure from Applied Ventures in recent months, moving to LG Technology Ventures.

Clive Rowland will finish his tenure as CEO of the university’s commercialisation arm in the new year to take a part-time position dedicated to matters of intellectual property.

Allianz-backed venture capital firm AV8 launches in the UK and the US.

Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley has opened an Australian office which will be run by BCG alumnus Craig Boshier.

Otto Williams, formerly the corporate's vice-president of innovation and strategic partnerships, will head strategic partnerships and ventures in the CEMEA region.

Tomoko Inoue, formerly senior manager at MedVenture Partners, joined corporate venturing unit Omron Ventures as chief executive earlier this year.

Swati Dasgupta, a director at Siemens unit Next47, has taken the same role at another corporate investment arm, National Grid Ventures.

Leonard Lee, formerly global head of new business models and services for Airbus, has taken a partner position at Silk Ventures.

Chad Gardner has departed from Modumetal to join Energy Innovation Capital.