Alex McCracken, managing director who had covered VC relations, has stepped up at SVB to help the bank lend about $100m from its new Ireland office, as well as building its startup banking services in Europe more broadly.

Julia Rebholz has joined Corporate Impact-X (CIX), which published a report at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium last month on practical ways for corporations to follow the Ignite fund set up by UK-based energy utility Centrica.

LSU looks for businesspeople close to the university to mentor its faculty and researchers in entrepreneurship to support the I-Corps Sites summer program.

Portfolio review ended while organisation structured being changed.

Lisa Lambert, a vice-president at Intel Capital until last week and #1 on GCV's January Rising Stars list, has taken a managing partner position at venture firm Westly Group.

David Newlands is set to replace current non-executive chairman Martin Knight in August 2016.

After several decades of peaks and troughs, corporate venturers feel they are climbing up the slope of enlightenment.

SVB's Tracy Isacke spoke to Akira Kirton from BP, Jaidev Shergill from Capital One and Sohaila Ouffata from BMW on the best ways of incorporating diversity into corporate venturing.

Deals at Harvard-focused VC firm Xfund have reportedly halted following internal disputes.