Business Leaders Network (BLN) the networking and events forum for tech sector business leaders and investors driving innovation and growth, hosted the first CEO Tales of 2013 last week which was an evening of drinks networking and panel debate and featured speakers from some of the most successful new businesses in open source to take a look at these new models. Erevena continue their partnership with BLN to provide sponsorship and support at a number of events, bringing the experience of ‘building the teams that build the companies’ into the forum, and providing our customers with exposure to the pooled experience of leaders linked though the BLN.

http://shar.es/YkPqC

Zend, the leading provider of software and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical applications in PHP, have appointed Paul Holt as VP EMEA, Field Operations. Paul joins Zend from Eucalyptus Systems where he held the position of VP Sales, EMEA.

Virtual Instruments, the leader in Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments, has been listed third on Forbes annual ranking of America’s Most Promising Companies — a list of 100 privately held, high-growth companies with bright futures. Virtual Instruments moved up three spots from the 2011 ranking. Over the course of the past year, Virtual Instruments has seen accelerated growth in all areas of its business. In September, the company announced $27.5 million in late stage venture funding, which it plans to invest in product development and geographic market expansion and have continued to build out its European presence. With its recent success with customers in the Asia Pacific market, the company also plans to expand in the Asia Pacific region.

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/forbes-names-virtual-instruments-the-third-most-promising-company-in-america-1753832.htm

David Drury has been appointed as a Partner at Erevena. David has over 15 years experience of Executive Search across Professional Services sectors as well as Technology companies and prior to Erevena David ran his own search firm for several years.

http://erevena-ps.com/who-we-are/our-team/david-drury/

Nutmeg, the online investment manager have appointed Lee Cowles as General Manager. Lee joins Nutmeg from Blurb where he held the position of Managing Director for Europe.