Weaver is responsible for managing the current portfolio of seven companies as well as directing all acquisition and corporate development activities for the corporation.
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2012 Powerlist: David Wallerstein, Tencent
As senior executive vice-president at China-based media group Tencent, David Wallerstein said he aspired to “create China’s leading internet company”. Outlining his method, he said: “We seek to identify the best technologies, applications, content, ideas and practices from around the world – in addition to China – to ensure we never fail to exceed user… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: David Wallerstein, Tencent
2012 Powerlist: Deryck van Rensburg, Coca-Cola
He has worked for 25 years at Coca-Cola, and previously at Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever.
2012 Powerlist: Joseph Vaillancourt, Waste Management
Joseph Vaillancourt, a near seven-year veteran of Waste Management’s corporate venturing unit, has led more than $1bn of equity and debt financings in his career and has also led $600m of mergers and acquisitions activity. Vaillancourt, managing director, organic growth, said: “One of the achievements I feel most notable over any discrete investment gain is… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Joseph Vaillancourt, Waste Management
2012 Powerlist: Markus Thill, Robert Bosch Venture Capital
“I care for the commercial side, Claus [Schmidt, another managing director] for the technical side.”
2012 Powerlist: Alex Steel, Syngenta Ventures
He moved to the role having been a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) project leader at Syngenta, where he has worked since 2009.
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