Pitchford is managing director of healthcare investments at Imperial Innovations Group, a UK-listed venture capital firm that primarily supports spin-outs from British universities after its own spin out from Imperial College London.

The inter-university venturing QBIC Fund is the successor of the Baekeland II-Fund of UGent and the BI3-fund of VUB.

He previously was a senior director of special projects at internet services provider AOL, which acquired TechCrunch, a media group that started the corporate venturing fund, and, before that, was director of user experience at Yahoo.

Gonnissen had spent two and a half years as manager of corporate venturing at Bekaert before leaving last month for a university venturing fund.

Lundemose is co-founder of several companies including Symphogen, Santaris and Prosidion, a UK subsidiary of OSI Pharmaceuticals where he had been a managing director of OSI's corporate venturing unit.

Based in India, Mehra will run L Capital Asia's operations.

The employee of the Singtel Innov8 and Comcast Interactive Capital-backed social messaging company join online marketplace Redmart.

The cloud storage company, backed by rival Salesforce and the corporate venturing unit of Germany-based technology company SAP, adds a board member, as well as securing two team recruits.

Sue Siegel, a venture capital, start-up and corporate veteran, most recently a general partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, moves in to head up GE's $6bn healthcare programme.

Brian Pike, former chief technology officer of events business Ticketmaster, joins the advertising technology company, which has corporate backing from News Corporation and IDG Ventures Asia.