It emerges that Nagraj Kashyap rises to senior vice president, from his vice president role, at the same time as Kashyap is named the thirteenth most powerful person in corporate venturing in our inaugural Powerlist 100 out today.

Carlsen is on the board of PTC Therapeutics and Santaris Pharma, and was previously a board member of 7TM Pharma and Arpida.

Blausteinwas director of the University Intellectual Property Programme at DuPont from 2004 to 2008. He previously worked at DuPont in research and development portfolio management from 2000 to 2004 and as a business director for non-wovens in Europe from 1997 to 1999.

Asanuma was previously a director at Yasuda Enterprise Development America, a venture firm backed by Japan-based insurers Sompo Japan Insurance and Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance.