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News provider Fortune said Nigg would have a focus on financial services companies as his Europatweb deals included merging portfolio company Flutter into gambling website Betfair.

He has worked for 25 years at Coca-Cola, and previously at Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever.

"I care for the commercial side, Claus [Schmidt, another managing director] for the technical side."

The corporate venturing programme invests up to $5m per round and followed Covidien spinning out from conglomerate Tyco International in June 2007 to expand into medical devices.

Johnson joins NanoString from Relypsa, a biopharmaceutical company, where he was CFO.

Elghandour had been a principal at Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) for four years and would join Nevro, according to news provider Fortune.