Asif Giga has taken an investment director position at Ericsson Ventures having come from another corporate venturing unit, Experian Ventures.

Pankaj Mitra has departed from Infosys Ventures in order to make investment and M&A deals for Cisco in India.

Brian Pietras has taken a vice-president of corporate strategy role at Workday, having previously been head of technology ventures for Hays.

A 2017 GCV Rising Stars winner, HP Tech Ventures partner Vitaly Golomb has joined IEG as global head of principal investments.

Maher Khaled, who managed intellectual property arising from medical research at University of Queensland, has joined Preveceutical Medical as director of international operations.

Paul Santerre, professor at the Faculty of Dentistry, has been named Baxter chair of health technology and commercialisation.