Rich Flynn, who stepped down from his position as president of Apollo Education Ventures in April, has joined Tyton Partners as managing director.

Oxford University's commercialisation arm has appointed Matt Perkins as its new chief executive, replacing Tom Hockaday who stepped down earlier this year.

William Wang has been appointed managing director of the Tsinghua Technology Transfer Fund.

Aymerik Renard has been made director of US-based data storage provider Western Digital's corporate venturing unit, which has invested over $250m in more than 20 startups under chief strategy officer Mark Long.

Susan Warburton will act as innovation business development manager as part of ambitions to connect Manchester universities with local industry.

Marcos Battisti, who used to oversee Intel Capital's Western Europe and Israel activity, is joining VC firm C5 Capital as it looks to raise a $150m cloud computing fund.

David Ollila, founding director at Northern Michigan University's tech transfer office, has left to join Skypoint Ventures.