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GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Deborah Hopkins

A meeting at the offices of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in October 2009, first convinced Deborah Hopkins, US bank Citi’s chief innovation officer and chairman of venture capital initiatives, to travel to Palo Alto, California. Hopkins said in an interview for last year’s Powerlist™: “I had a smaller team based primarily… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Deborah Hopkins

GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Bill Maris

As managing partner of Google Ventures, Bill Maris has rapidly established search engine Google’s independent corporate venturing unit as an investment force, securing a mandate to deploy $300m a year, having originally been provided with $100m a year in 2009. Silicon Valley admires Maris’s resources, with Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut telling the Wall Street Journal:… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Bill Maris

GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Claudia Fan Munce

Claudia Fan Munce, managing director at US-listed technology company IBM’s Venture Capital Group, has taken a leadership position for the industry as the first corporate venturing board member of US trade body the National Venture Capital Association and is one of the most vocal advocates of the creation of “a corporate venturing community”. This endorsement… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Claudia Fan Munce

GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Ralf Schnell

As chief executive, Ralf Schnell has overseen a transformation of Siemens Venture Capital (SVC), the corporate venturing unit of the Germany-based industrial corporation, repositioning its focus entirely after he took it over in February 2005. It has now grown to more than €1bn ($1.3bn) under management. In his more than seven years in charge of… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Ralf Schnell

GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Hugo Shong

In 1993, as managing editor of Electronic Business Asia Magazine, Hugo Shong, founding general partner of IDG Capital Partners, assisted IDG’s founder, Patrick McGovern, in establishing the $50m IDG Capital venture fund in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong, when the Chinese venture market was largely overlooked by investors. McGovern said in a Global Corporate Venturing profile:… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Hugo Shong

GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Nagraj Kashyap

Nagraj Kashyap, senior vice-president of ventures and innovation at US-based semiconductor company Qualcomm, was raised in New Delhi, India, moved to the US in 1992 to gain a master’s degree in computer science from University of Texas, Austin, and never left. He joined Qualcomm Ventures in 2003 and oversaw the North America ventures team until… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Nagraj Kashyap

GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Charles Searle

Talking at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium last year, Charles Searle, who runs internet investments for South Africa-based media company Naspers, spoke of “the halo effect” created for the business’s corporate venturing operations when it backed runaway success story, China-based internet company Tencent. Naspers owns large stakes in Tencent, and in London Stock Exchange-listed internet… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Charles Searle

GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Arvind Sodhani

Perhaps the greatest sign of a corporate venturing unit’s success is when it can gain the backing of its next chief executive. Arvind Sodhani, president of US-listed semiconductor company Intel’s corporate venturing unit, Intel Capital, secured this feat when Brian Krzanich, the chipmaker’s incoming chief executive declared himself “a big fan” of Intel Capital’s Global… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Arvind Sodhani