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OMERS Ventures hires tech specialist as director

The venture capital arm of OMERS pension fund has hired a tech specialist to build out its investment team.

The new director, George Babu, is well versed in everything from hardware to enterprise software and most recently oversaw U.S. operations for Wrapp, a social gifting startup. Mr. Babu has also worked at Rypple, which was sold to Salesforce.com, and at Research in Motion for nine years.