The UK-headquartered health insurer has set up a A$20m fund in Australia to back young startups in healthcare areas like genomics and wearables.

Daniel Correa and Ajey Kaushal, formerly senior associates at JLL Spark, have been promoted to principals.

Nicole Gaudelli worked for the company that created gene-editing technology CRISPR.

Orano Venture Fund will run for five years and invest in about 20 industrial startups.

Michael Buzzo will now serve as the head of ventures at BHP Ventures, the corporate venture arm of the Australian mining company.

He served a year as the director of the UAV Sustainable Flight Fund before becoming managing partner.

He will oversee the cloud data management automation platform’s strategic investments.

Mark Ritzmann has become CEO at German utility E.On’s innovation and incubation subsidiary, after six years at the firm.

Andrea Taylor, director of Strategic Partnerships at Edinburgh Innovations, will become interim CEO when George Baxter leaves for UC Davis at the end of the month.

Jim Deane has been appointed director of the University of Hawai’i’s Office of Innovation and Commercialization, seeing him return to his alma mater after more than two decades.