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
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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”.
2012 Powerlist: Dirk Nachtigal, BASF Venture Capital
During the past decade he has expanded the corporate venturing team to 14 in offices in the US, China, Japan and Germany.
2012 Powerlist: Ralf Schnell, Siemens Venture Capital
Chief architect behind a unique set up in the corporate venturing industry.
2012 Powerlist: Bill Maris, Google Ventures
As a brain scientist, Maris discerns the fine line between crazy and genius.
2012 Powerlist: Hugo Shong, IDG Capital
China is the future, many believe, despite recent signs the company’s economy is slowing down. In this context Hugo Shong, as the man who has developed US-based media group International Data Group’s (IDG) corporate venturing operations in China is a man to watch. In 1993, as managing editor of Electronic Business Asia Magazine, Shong assisted… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Hugo Shong, IDG Capital
2012 Powerlist: Arvind Sodhani, Intel Capital
Rock star investor and manager of first global value-added venture unit.
2012 Powerlist: Charles Searle, Naspers’ MIH
The pull of Charles Searle and South Africa-based media group Naspers is evidenced by how Silicon Valley heayweights are prepared to attend the group’s strategy meetings. Naspers’ corporate venturing unit, Myriad International Holdings (MIH), could be forgiven for being little known in the epicentre of global venture capital but its attraction is perhaps heightened because… Continue reading 2012 Powerlist: Charles Searle, Naspers’ MIH
2012’s Powerlist 100
Welcome to the inaugural Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist 100.This supplement looks at the people behind the most influential corporate venturing units ranked by Global Corporate Venturing to see the powerbrokers’ backgrounds and how it has helped shape the organisations and deals they have done. We ranked the top 20 from the 100, with the remainder… Continue reading 2012’s Powerlist 100