Jonathan Tudor, formerly of Castrol InnoVentures and BP Ventures, has accepted an offer to join Centrica Innovations.

Jonathan Tudor has left petroleum producer BP, where he was managing director of its BP Ventures unit, and accepted “an offer I could not refuse” to head a corporate venturing subsidiary of UK-listed energy utility Centrica.

Tudor, the winner of a Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars award in 2016, had been venture director at Castrol InnoVentures, a division of BP, before its reorganisation into BP Ventures in the past year.

Tudor had worked at lubricants provider Castrol and BP, where…