Gary Plourde has left his role at private intellectual property office Janus Patents to become University of Bridgeport's director tech transfer and venture creation.

Tony Hickson, currently the managing director of Imperial Innovations, will become chief business officer of Cancer Research UK in August.

Jon McCarry has taken a role at UNT's Murphy Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation as the hub looks to strengthen its presence beyond the university.

Fritz Foley is a senior associate dean and professor for financial planning at Harvard Business School.

Rakhi Gibbons has become director of licensing at TLA after 12 years in the tech transfer business at University of Arizona and University of Michigan.

Nikesh Arora has joined Palo Alto Networks, as his former employer SoftBank begins making its own moves on succession to its founder, Masayoshi Son.

Speaking at the GCV Symposium, Scott Caruso, director of strategic ventures at UpRamp, said that latency, infrastructure and content will be key VC drivers for the media sector.