From today, Tudor will report to Roy Williamson, managing director of Castrol InnoVentures.

The Intel-backed healthcare management software provider has hired John Hallock from Athenahealth as its VP of corporate communications.

Formerly the head of corporate venture consulting at Accenture, Dean MacKenzie is now an investment director for Next Wave Partners.

Manny Akebal has left Zynga to join the in-game marketing network.

Lauckner, a 33-year veteran of GM, and its corporate venturing head, takes over the chief technology officer role as well as responsibility for research and development, bringing three of the main innovation roles at the company together.

Roy Davis retired from Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation at the end of December after nearly four years as its president.

Expanded remit and team for oil major BP as Justin Adams, head of emerging business and ventures at BP's Alternative Energy division, is to leave next month.

Synchrony has filed for a patent to its Innovation Capital method, which says it establishes an "empirically-driven, objective, and sustainable system screening, selecting and measuring the strategic value of corporate venture capital investments".

The Silicon Valley veteran will act as technology advisor for the mobile advertising startup, having held roles at Facebook, Yahoo!, Oracle and Skype among others.