Western Digital Capital director Aymerik Renard has departed to join an emerging venture capital player.

Aymerik Renard (pictured) has left Western Digital Capital, the corporate venturing arm of data storage technology provider Western Digital, to join “a small emerging VC,” he told Global Corporate Venturing.

Renard,  formerly a director at the unit and the recipient of a Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars award in January this year, said: “I am leaving Western Digital.

“I have really enjoyed my time here, and working for (Western Digital’s vice-president of corporate development and strategy) Dan Flynn has…