Chicago-based Todd Dauphinais was the former president of US-based EFI Electronics and joins Aster Capital to open its North America branch.

Former co-founder and chief executive of Grand Central joins Google Ventures as entrepreneur-in-residence.

Time vice president Jason Kelly becomes chief media officer at AdMeld.

Konstantin Urban, former head of Holtzbrinck Ventures, has co-founded Urban-Brand, the company behind baby care website www.windein.de.

Nick Leschly, partner of Third Rock Ventures, has been appointed the company's president and chief executive as Genetix Pharmaceuticals rebrands itself Bluebird Bio.

Stig Poulsen, managing director of Danfoss Ventures, has decided to leave the Danish industrial group after a transition period following the company's reorganisation of its corporate venturing division to concentrate more on internal innovation.

BBC Worldwide America hires Ann Sarnoff, president of US-listed media group News Corp's Dow Jones Ventures subsidiary, as its chief operating officer.

Thirty-one companies on World Economic Forum's list of technology pioneers.

Andy Leventhal, previously co-founder and CEO of carbon information measurement company Planet Metrics replaces Pratap Mukherjee at Lowe's-backed Recurve.

Venture capital and management veteran Peter McKay has joined Desktone.