Manny Stockman has been promoted to senior associate, while Anurag Agarwal has been hired as an associate.

GE Ventures CEO Sue Siegel has joined orthodontic equipment and scanner producer Align Technology's board of directors.

Albert Shyy has left Gree Ventures to run the newly opened Singapore office for the German media company's corporate venturing subsidiary, Burda Principal Investments.

The property developer has backed the $300m first fund for Pivotal BioVenture Partners, a biotech venture firm formed by an ex-Roche Venture Fund investment director.

The ex-GV chief executive is reportedly set to close his $100m Section 32 fund in the next few weeks and will be the entity's sole investing partner.

Features editor Nicole Idar Lee spoke to industry veteran Janice Mawson, who now heads the GCV Leadership Society, which connects corporate venturers, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in the innovation economy

Eric Toone, who previously led the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative at Duke, and David Danielson, a precourt energy scholar at Stanford, have joined Breakthrough Energy Ventures.