Tam Hock Chuan joins Edgar Hardless as MD while Jeffrey Karras becomes venture adviser alongside William Bao Bean.

Singapore-based phone operator SingTel has hired several people for its corporate venturing unit.

Tam Hock Chuan has joined as a managing director of investments at SingTel Innov8, a $150m fund set up last summer, from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private investment arm of the World Bank.

Before the IFC, he had worked at Singapore state-backed Temasek Group and venture capital firm Vertex Management based in the US’s Silicon Valley. Hock Chuan joins the other managing director of investments,…