Martin Grieve became head of Unilever Corporate Ventures, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company’s corporate venturing unit, in 2009. Grieve led the corporate venturing’s expansion into Asia in 2011, winning his board’s approval to expand into emerging markets, going into India, with plans to expand into China. He has also overseen an innovative strategy of backing… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Martin Grieve, Unilever
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2012 Powerlist: Matteo Gatta, Belgacom
He came to the role after heading Scarlet, an acquisition of Belgacom, as chief executive from 2008 to 2010.
2012 Powerlist: John Gardner, Nokia
He worked at a Nokia corporate venturing unit spun off from the company as BlueRun Ventures between 1998 and 2007 before becoming managing partner at Nokia Growth Partners, which looked at later-stage deals.
2012 Powerlist: Stefan Gabriel, 3M
The company has done 18 investments, which are strategic for 3M at mostly early stage, investing approximately $3m to $5m as lead or co-investor.
2012 Powerlist: Ron Fisher, Softbank
As well as founding venture firm SoftBank Capital, he is a director and president of SoftBank Holdings and on the board of the parent company SoftBank Corporation.
2012 Powerlist: Albert Fischer, Yellow & Blue
Albert Fischer was brought in by Netherlands-based power company Nuon to set up its corporate venturing unit, Yellow & Blue, in 2008. Fischer, managing director of Yellow & Blue, said: “On the basis of Aim-listed Plant Health Care, where I was non-executive chairman [for nine years to 2010], Nuon invited me to start Yellow &… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Albert Fischer, Yellow & Blue
2012 Powerlist: Jens Eckstein, SR One
He joined having worked at venture firm TVM Capital as a general partner since 2007.
2012 Powerlist: Sherwood Dodge, GE
Sherwood Dodge has been looking after corporate development and equity investment for the past three years.
2012 Powerlist: Barbara Dalton, Pfizer
Barbara Dalton has worked at Pfizer’s corporate venturing unit for the past five years as vice-president. She joined Pfizer from EuclidSR Partners, a venture firm backed by UK-based pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, where she worked from 2000 to 2007. Before this she was at GlaxoSmithKline’s corporate venturing unit SR One for seven years. Dalton took a… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Barbara Dalton, Pfizer
2012 Powerlist: Issam Dairanieh, BP
Issam Dairanieh last year became head of corporate venturing at UK-based oil major BP. Between 2010 and 2011 he led BP’s US corporate venturing operations and he joined the venture team in 2007. Dairanieh is a director or observer on the boards of 12 companies, namely Brightsource Energy, GMZ Energy, GMZ Solar, OptoAtmospherics, Liquid Light,… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Issam Dairanieh, BP
2012 Powerlist: George Coyle, ConocoPhillips
Between 2007 and 2009, Coyle was chief executive of DeepFlex, which raised more than $35m in venture capital.
2012 Powerlist: Peter Cowley, Martlet
A self-described maverick corporate venturing investor, Peter Cowley takes a unique approach to investing on behalf of Martlet, a corporate angel fund sponsored by Marshall, a UK-based engineering group. Cowley said: “At Global Corporate Venturing’s conference in May I stood up and said part of what we do is altruistic, and got sharp intakes of… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Peter Cowley, Martlet
2012 Powerlist: Iain Cooper, Schlumberger
In this role he looks after early-stage technology scouting and corporate venturing for Schlumberger Worldwide. He also looks after relationships with Intel, Boeing and General Motors.
2012 Powerlist: Russ Conser, Shell
Russ Conser, a veteran of Anglo-Dutch oil major Shell, has spent 14 years working in corporate venturing at the company. In 2010 he took over management of the company’s combined GameChanger corporate venturing programme helping develop ideas into technologies and companies of relevance to Shell. Between 2006 and 2010 he headed the exploration and production… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Russ Conser, Shell