Newly hired principal Jill Ford will source new investment opportunities for Toyota AI Ventures and work with its existing portfolio companies.

Liversidge has been on the board of commercialisation firm IP Group since it bought its peer Fusion IP in 2014.

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Jay Hetzel has become chairman at Uniquest, bringing more than 20 years of life science and commercialisation expertise accrued at the Csiro research agency.

Beth Ferreira has rejoined VC firm FirstMark Capital as managing director, bringing an end to her time at corporate venturing unit WME Ventures.

Jacques has become global head of Visa Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous US-listed payments firm.

Maina Bhaman has joined Sofinnova Partners after serving as director of healthcare investment at Touchstone Innovations for over a decade.