Matthew Palmer, former senior vice president of marketing at Disney, has joined Sweden-based online entertainment site Stardoll, opening its first US office. Mr Palmer will be charged with driving domestic growth of the brand, including partnerships with advertisers, music labels, networks, film studios and celebrities. Stardoll says it currently attracts 5.5 million unique users a month, 30 per cent of which come from the US.

John Weston, former chief executive of FTSE 100 company BAE Systems, has joined UK-based Insensys as non-executive chairman. Insensys provides fibre optic load measurement technology to the wind energy and aerospace industries. The company is most well known for providing the electronically-controlled rigging on the Maltese Falcon superyacht, owned by Silicon Valley pioneer, Tom Perkins, co-founder of Kleiner Perkins.

StructureVision, the UK-based provider of 3D waste packing optimisation software, has announced the appointment of Neville Chamberlain CBE, the former chief executive of British Nuclear Fuels and former chairman of Urenco, as its chairman. Structure Vision’s software is designed to reduce the requirement for manual experimentation in a lab environment by accurately predicting packing scenarios. The core applications are in the nuclear, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

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