Foresight Group has appointed Ray Harris to its Private Equity Investment team, following Ben Dawson’s appointment earlier this year.

A team of students from Imperial College Business School have collaborated to create and launch the School’s first student-led investment fund.

Mike Bristow, business strategy consultant, formerly of strategy consultancies OC&C, Roland Berger and Hambalt, has been appointed CEO of leading specialist property development peer-to-peer lender, CrowdProperty.

He co-founded CrowdProperty and has been on the Board as a Non-Executive Director since it was established in 2013 and he takes up management of the company from fellow co-founder, Simon Zutshi, who now becomes Chairman.

Cavendish Corporate Finance has appointed Derek Zissman, a senior corporate finance professional, as a partner and Head of the Cavendish Exit Review practice. Derek brings over 40 years’ experience of M&A advisory to Cavendish and his appointment further strengthens the firm’s sell-side advisory service. It will enable Cavendish to better advise its clients across all aspects of their business’ exit process and take advantage of emerging opportunities in today’s very active M&A markets.

Augentius Compliance has appointed Andrew Shrimpton, a proven leader within the Compliance Consulting industry, as its Chairman. Andrew will spearhead further expansion of the business, following yet another year of strong growth for Augentius’ leading Regulatory Compliance Business.

BGF, the most active investor for growing companies and entrepreneurs in the UK & Ireland, has received the prestigious honour of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category. BGF is the first investment company to have received this honour.

Diffblue, the Oxford-based world leader in AI for code, today announces that Jane Silber has been appointed Chair of the Board of Directors. Silber was most recently CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu - the marketing-leading Linux based operating system, where she remains on the board as a non-executive director. Silber has unrivalled experience in running and managing open-source software enterprises globally.

LNC Therapeutics, a French biotech company specializing in research and development for gut microbiome-based drugs, has announced the appointment of Dr. Georges Rawadi as its new CEO.  Jean-Luc Treillou, his predecessor, will become Chairman of the Board of Directors on July 1st.

Zelluna Immunotherapy, the biotechnology company specializing in T-cell receptor (TCR) immunotherapies targeting a broad range of solid cancers with a high unmet medical need, has announced the appointment of Arjan Roozen as chief technology officer (CTO). 

The Board of the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has appointed Susie Farnon as a non-executive director with effect from 1 April 2018.

Henley Business Angels: inviting applications from entrepreneurs seeking seed finance.

Executive recruitment firm Intramezzo has launched its new equity crowdfunding platform, Stakeholderz. Designed to help early stage UK technology companies secure investment, the platform is supported by Microsoft for Startups, the software giant’s business accelerator in London.