Castrol innoVentures appoints Angel Gambino as general manager of Smart Mobility.

Johns Hopkins University names new technology commercialisation advisor ahead of push for entrepreneurship.

Gregg Bayes-Brown, news editor of Global University Venturing, interviews Roger Ashby, a UK-based award-winning serial entrepreneur who has been heavily involved with UK commercialisation over the past few years, and is currently an adviser and mentor on tech transfer, as well as executive chairman of Imperial College spin-outs Sugru and Bare Conductive. He has a background in the oil industry and was a founder of Satellite Technology Systems in the 1980s.

Samsung Electronics has hired Luis Arbulu reportedly as a director in its Open Innovation Center.

Diagnostics firm Avacta Group names head of research and development amid expansion into antibody market.

Oxehealth, a medtech spin-out of Oxford University, appoints chairman ahead of development push.