Nils Granath, former head of investments at Sweden-based phone group Telia, has moved to this month become senior investment manager for private equity and venture capital at Swisscanto Invest, an investment unit owned by Switzerland-based Zürcher Kantonalbank.
Granath had been responsible for the growth investment portfolio of Division X at Telia for three years.
His deals at Telia included being a board member of connected car company Springworks, internet of things developer Fältcom, music provider Soundtrack Your Brand, audio brand Zound Industries and mobile device care provider EBuilder.
Brendan Ives remains managing director of Divison X, while Rebecka Vredin and Johan af Sandeberg are venture investment managers.
Earlier he had spent almost the same amount of time as a partner of investment bank Cartagena Capital, now part of Bryan Garnier, and as an investment officer at Swisscom Ventures.
His deals at the latter included being a board member of Liberovision (acquired by Vizrt), Swisscom AutoID (merged with Vilant Systems), me2me (merged with iSpeech) and Diino (acquired by Swiss Picturebank).