He moved to the role having been a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) project leader at Syngenta, where he has worked since 2009.
Month: November 2012
2012 Powerlist: Daniel Sheehan, Covidien Ventures
The corporate venturing programme invests up to $5m per round and followed Covidien spinning out from conglomerate Tyco International in June 2007 to expand into medical devices.
2012 Powerlist: Georg Schwegler, T-Venture
Schwegler joined T-Venture in October 2000 and was initially responsible for the INI-Ventures Fund and research and analysis, before taking over the management of the new T-Com Venture Fund in 2004 and becoming chief executive a year later.
2012 Powerlist: Howard Schultz, Starbucks
The deal is unusually personalised for a chief executive of a major company, with Schultz himself sitting on the board of Square.
2012 Powerlist: Reese Schroeder, Motorola Solutions
Reese Schroeder spent five years working with Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, the corporate venturing group of the US-based telecommunications company, before joining it formally in 2004 as managing director. He said: “In 1999, when the venture group was formed, I was one of the first people who started to work with them. I attended their… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Reese Schroeder, Motorola Solutions
2012 Powerlist: Hilton Romanski, Cisco
Romanski previously worked at US-based bank JP Morgan.
2012 Powerlist: Jay Reinemann, BBVA New Ventures
San Francisco-based Reinemann is hopeful his role will significantly modernise the bank.
2012 Powerlist: Daniel Piette, LVMH Investment Funds
Daniel Piette, chairman of LVMH Investment Funds, joined the France-based luxury goods maker in 1990 as executive vice-president before heading its L Capital corporate venturing unit for western markets and L Capital Asia for the east. In March, L Capital raised €400m ($600m) for its latest fund, beating its original €350m target for this third… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Daniel Piette, LVMH Investment Funds
2012 Powerlist: Thorsten Peisl, State Street
Thorsten Peisl, vice-president of product innovation at US-based financial services provider State Street, has spent nearly three years developing a corporate venture capital discipline with the strategic objective to introduce innovative financial services for the buy-side community. He said he looks for “start-ups with a healthy disregard for traditional practices [which in turn] get access… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Thorsten Peisl, State Street
2012 Powerlist: Wallace Pai, Motorola Mobility Ventures
He joined Motorola four years ago from US-based semiconductor company Qualcomm.
2012 Powerlist: Richard Nourse, ESB Novusmodus
Richard Nourse leads venture capital fund manager Novusmodus, which invests the capital of Ireland-based utility ESB, as managing partner. A year after leaving Merrill Lynch in 2007, and after a brief spell working for the UK government selling British Energy to EDF, Nourse hooked up with ESB during the financial crisis. He said: “ESB had… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Richard Nourse, ESB Novusmodus
2012 Powerlist: Fredrik Nordh, Saab Ventures
Nordh recently took over the corporate venturing unit, as the latest step in his second career-spell at Saab.
2012 Powerlist: Shin Nagakura, Transcosmos Investments
Nagakura says his brief is to “identify, analyse, recommend and execute possible investments and alliance deals which would have a strategic fit with TransCosmos Japan”.
2012 Powerlist: Girish Nadkarni, ABB Technology Ventures
Nadkarni says he proposed the venturing unit’s creation three years ago because the VC community was “sitting on its hands”.