Freeman had been CEO of Mediabrands Ventures since January last year and will now be global head of innovation for McCann Worldgroup. Jimmy Poon, chief executive of Mediabrands also now leads its Ventures unit.

VC@OMD helps its parent manage soft drinks maker PepsiCo's Pepsi 10 and industrial conglomerate General Electric's GE/OMD Innovation Incubator programmes and Jonathan Haber has stepped up to be chief innovation officer.

Deena Shiff will become head of Telstra Applications & Ventures Group on August 1 when she leaves her role as group managing director of Telstra Business after five years.

Huang had been at UMC Capital for seven years and said on his LinkedIn page that he had invested in 14 companies in the Greater China technology, media and telecoms sector,

Schmitt worked at Sofinnova for nearly a decade and was promoted to the top rank in 2005 but late last month said on his LinkedIn page he had set up JoltTech Capital as a private equity investment firm targeting technology companies in Europe.

Intel Capital has hired one of the founding partners of US venture capital firm Opus Capital.

Hansjee was on the board of legacy European corporate venturing deals he made, such as Fon, Ubiquisys and DotMobi, but has left to join buyout firm EQT as a senior adviser.

Ando has previously been chairman of the Investment Trusts Association, Japan, and before that had the same role at the Japan Securities Dealers Association.