Yoon Choi departs Samsung's corporate venturing unit after eight years at the technology company to go to US semiconductor company Maxim.

The Business Growth Fund makes its latest appointment, this time to its Scotland office.

Hilton Romanski, vice-president of service provider strategy and major partnerships at Cisco, has reportedly replaced Charles Carmel in charge of Cisco's 45-strong mergers and acquisition and corporate venturing group, according to news provider Fortune.

Mark Felix makes an internal move within Dow Chemical Company to work in the European venture unit.

Gattamneni is now managing director of Venture Pursuit. His two directors are Dimitrios Stoimenou and Gudrun Herrmann.

The executive joins the US healthcare company's corporate venturing unit from Frazier Healthcare Ventures.

Chakravarthy had been looking at investments in technology and telecoms at Bharti, including its corporate venturing unit Airtel Innovation Fund, which had been closed last year.

The departure follows press speculation the Airtel fund was being closed over the summer, as first reported by news provider Pluggd.in, which described it as "heartbreaking news for mobile (app) developers".