Sky Startup Investments & Partnerships has hired Eva Rez, a former investor at Episode 1 Ventures, to assume an investment manager position.

Eva Rez, formerly an investor at seed-stage venture capital fund Episode 1 Ventures, joined UK-based media company and broadcaster Sky as a senior investment manager earlier this month.

Rez told Global Corporate Venturing her position at Sky’s Startup Investments & Partnerships unit will be her first corporate venture capital (CVC) appointment, adding: “I am very excited about this new opportunity especially because corporate VCs are becoming the next big thing.

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Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.