Laurel Buckner has left her managing director (MD) position at ATN Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of US-based telecommunications and renewable energy investment holding company ATN International.
Venture capital firm WestRiver Group hired Buckner in the same role ahead of the planned launch of a fund that will target machine learning. Based in Seattle, she will co-lead its $100m Pacific Northwest fund with fellow MD Anthony Bontrager.
Buckner said: “Although I am now officially a VC, there are lots of opportunities to work with my colleagues in the CVC world.”
A Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist winner in 2018, Buckner joined ATN as a senior vice-president in late 2017 to set up its corporate VC unit, after being vice-president of corporate venture investments and mergers and acquisitions at US-based telecoms firm GCI Communications.
Photo of Laurel Buckner courtesy of WestRiver Group.
