Cambridge Enterprise veteran Richard Jennings plans to retire from deputy director role in March.

Thakker, the managing director that led the unit's cloud and big data activities, will join Battery Ventures as a general partner at the start of next month.

Wesley Chan, a general partner at Google Ventures until early 2014, has joined venture capital firm Felicis Ventures.

Kevin Rose, formerly a managing partner at Google Ventures, has left the unit to focus on his startup, North Technologies, which has just raised $5m.

Former Georgia Tech Joy Laskar accused of stealing $1m from the university.

Carroll has been promoted from his position as vice president at Lilly Ventures to senior vice president.

Susan has left his position in Flextronics' corporate venturing unit to help lead the venture capital firm's hardware investment activities.

Simon Clark, who has also served as chairman of the BVCA, has left Fidelity's European venture capital unit after 15 years as managing partner.

Renee DiResta has left corporate venturing unit O'Reilly Alphatech to take up a position at startup Haven, and will continue to invest as an angel investor.