Mital Patel, formerly vice president of strategic and fintech investments at Citi, has taken up a director of strategic investments role.

Algorithmic trading group XTX Markets has named former investment manager Gabriele Papievyte as head of its corporate venturing unit.

Terry Lopaka Adams has been appointed to lead the tech transfer office at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute following the retirement of Todd Keiller.

Diarmuid O’Brien will continue to act as CEO of Cambridge Enterprise for one day a week.

The new fund called Myriad Venture Partners has received backing from IT corporation Xerox, which will be an anchor investor for the fund.

The US retail chain operator’s seven-year-old Store No 8 is ceasing operations and its head, Scott Eckert, is exiting the firm.

Laura Möller is the new director of K.I.E.Z, a multi-university-backed entrepreneurship centre for artificial intelligence startups.

Marko Hakovirta, currently a faculty member at North Carolina State University, will become CEO at Helsinki Innovation Services by April.

Koch Disruptive Technologies has promoted Israel-based director Jon Galitzer to a US managing director role.

Corey Christian has joined Robert Bosch’s CVC unit as an investment director, where he will focus on US east coast deals.