Shin Takano, a former director of corporate venture capital at Murata Manufacturing, has joined TIS Ventures as senior vice-president.

TIS Ventures, the corporate venturing subsidiary of Japan-based outsourcing and cloud services provider TIS, has named Shin Takano as senior vice-president.

Takano came from electronic component manufacturer Murata Manufacturing, where he had been a director of its corporate venture capital arm, Murata Ventures, since 2010, having previously been a manager at its parent company for three years.

During Takano’s time at Murata Ventures the unit invested in data management platform operator Locix and semiconductor developer Arctic Sand Technologies,…

Edison Fu

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