Jack Eadie, formerly an investor at Fidelity's Eight Roads Ventures unit, has moved to Siemens subsidiary Next47 as principal.

Jack Eadie, has joined Germany-headquartered industrial conglomerate Siemens as a UK-based principal of its Next47 corporate venturing unit.

Next47 had already hired Susana Quintana-Plaza as a partner to manage the UK and other parts of western Europe.

Eadie was formerly a venture capital investor at Eight Roads Ventures, the $4bn VC arm of fund manager Fidelity which operates across offices in the UK, India, China, Japan and the US.