After a year and a half at Scania’s CVC unit, Jessica Persson has taken up the head of venture capital and M&A role.

CVC veteran Eric Steager has left Touchdown Ventures and joined Purdue University subsidiary Purdue Ventures as managing director.

Chirag Takker has been promoted to vice president at J.P. Morgan's corporate venture unit.

After working for Huobi Global’s corporate investment division for nearly two years, Evans Huangfu has joined Arcane Group.

Kansas State University has promoted Rebecca Robinson to lead K-State Innovation Partners where she replaces Kent Glasscock, who is retiring.

Stefon Crawford has been promoted from principal to partner at General Motors' corporate venture arm, GM Ventures

More than a decade after leading SEB Alliance for appliance maker Groupe SEB, François-Xavier Meyer has become VC fund Sierra Venture Capital's latest partner.

Tatiana Litvin-Vechnyak is the vice-president for technology commercialisation at Georgetown University effective today.

Mike Paton is the new director of University of Bristol’s innovation hub Engine Shed, replacing Marty Reid who’s now leading SETsquared.

Andrew Wilkinson, chief executive of University of Manchester Innovation Factory, replaces Anne Lane as head of the organisation.