Seçkin Yelmen, managing director and head of Sabancı Ventures, is one of the 100 leading corporate venturing professionals in our 2024 Powerlist.

Former St Louis University executives Kenneth Olliff and Jasmin Patel will lead Boston University’s office of strategy and innovation.

After three years as a director at the CVC unit, Antonia Elisa Soler Blasco will lead the team across San Francisco, Boston and Tel Aviv.

PanasonicWell appointed Christie Pitts to identify family-oriented investment, partnership and M&A opportunities.

Darren Cooke has been selected as interim chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer at UC Berkeley, taking over from Rich Lyons.

The construction materials producer appointed Mitch Black as an entrepreneur in residence for its CVC and accelerator units.

Marc Bouchet will conduct deals for TDK Ventures Fund 2 while David Delfassy and Sam Hill will invest through Fund EX1.

Luís Fábrica, formerly investment associate at the energy group’s CVC group, has been promoted after four years at the unit.

Mairi Gibbs has been appointed CEO of Oxford University Innovation permanently, having led the tech transfer office in an interim capacity since April.

CVC veteran Takuya Hosomura, who spent a combined eight years at Rakuten Capital and Salesforce Ventures, joined Global Brain as a partner.