İskender Dirik, formerly CEO for software provider Microsoft’s continental Europe scaleup accelerator, has joined Samsung’s corporate venturing unit, Samsung Next, as managing director.
Still based in Berlin, Germany, after two and a half years with Microsoft, Dirik said he would start at Samsung this week and help to define its focus areas for Europe.
Dirik had previously been MD for Bauer Venture Partners, the €100m ($110m) corporate venture capital fund for Bauer Media, a media company focusing on magazine publishing and radio broadcasting.
At Samsung Next, Dirik will join Europe-based colleagues including Nick Migam in Berlin and Mario Branciforti and Christina Bechhold Russ in London.
Photo of İskender Dirik courtesy of Twitter.
