Michael Pohl, a director at Ascent Media and BigBand Networks, has joined the board of BlackArrow, a US-based provider of video advertising.

Rimas Kapeskas, marketing director at UPS product research and development, will replace Alan Koenning, fund manager of ?UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund for the past nearly eight years.

The integration of TransTech USA with Clareo Partners adds consultants in natural resources, energy and clean technology to Clareo's work with consumer packaged goods and technology companies, such as Kraft, Hewlett Packard, Alticor, Fulton Innovation and Zaharoff.

Graeme Sands, director of corporate and structured finance at Clydesdale, is leading the new unit, which is expected to hire people to expand the franchise outside of Scotland after receiving board approval.

GlaxoSmithKline's corporate venturing team continues active deal rate with movement in its personnel.

Andrew Cleland has worked at Time Warner for nearly a decade, five years of which has been in corporate venturing, and is now opening Comcast Interactive Capital's Manhattan office.

As a partner at Lightbank, Paul Lee will work with co-founders Eric Lefkovsky and Brad Keywell, the co-founders of consumer coupon company Groupon.

Jim Barry, chief executive of NTR, will be chief investment officer on the $110bn BlackRock Alternative Investors platform's new renewable power investment team.

Lubben had been the former head of DSM Licensing since January 2009 and now manages its Ventures unit.

In the first of a series of interviews of senior executives, Kyung Yoon, chief executive of Talent Age Associates, a global talent management firm speaks to Phil McKinney, vice-president and chief technology offcer of the Personal Systems Group at Hewlett-Packard.