Pascale Diaine, lead manager for Orange's accelerator since it launched in 2012, has departed for venture capital firm Storm Ventures where she will take on a principal role.
Pascale Diaine has left France-based telecommunications company Orange, where she was lead manager of its Orange Fab accelerator, to join venture capital firm Storm Ventures, VentureBeat has reported.
Orange originally hired Diaine had originally been hired by Orange, then still known as France Télécom, in 2002 as an analyst and rose through the ranks to become an evangelist for its Silicon Valley-based research and development division, Orange Labs, in 2005.
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