The US-based biofuels company recruits veteran backed by Itochu Corporation recruits veteran finance director Peter Cheesbrough previously at IT consulting services company Ciber, which grew to more than $1bn revenues while he was there.

Redesign of Global Corporate Venturing monthly magazine comes ahead of Awards supplement and our annual Symposium and Tech Scout challenge next week.

After nearly two years at Vodafone Ventures, Lardieg had been investor and board observer at a number of companies, including LocalResponse and VoucherCloud.

Narayan was previously at venture capital firms Inflection Equity and Crescendo Ventures and is understood to be planning a new venture for after the summer.

Kelly said by email he would start at Iona next month and the company's website said it would begin business from June.

Sandbox provides seed funding to companies that participate in the Excelerate Labs incubator program in Chicago and the Foundry through the Sandbox Venture Fund, as well as Blue Cross.

Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook until last year, and the founder of Global Crossing Ventures in 1999, joins North Bridge Venture Partners.

The Russian Space Agency is expected to be taking her on its launch in May.

The maker of electrocardiographic mapping technology, a spin-out from Case Western Reserve University, appoints Bullock to role a month after a $7.5m funding round, as executive chairman Steve Arless leaves.

Jacqueline LeSage Krause leaves Hartford Ventures, which is being shifted into The Hartford's finance and strategy department.