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.

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.