About the Powerlist selection process and methodology
GCV complies its annual Powerlist of the top 100 heads of corporate venturing units out of more than 2,000 that we cover globally. We use a series of metrics to select the list, which drawn on our GCV Analytics insights-as-a-service data platform.
In addition, we look for strategic and leadership measures, such as thought-leadership, vision and motivational abilities, including who from the team was part of our Rising Stars awards selected in January at our GCVI Summit in Monterey, California.
Some of the strategic and leadership measures we look out for include:
- Any examples of corporate acquisitions of portfolio or venture-backed companies
- Business unit partnerships and development with portfolio companies
- Product or strategy road maps and public leadership positions in conferences, associations and societies.
- Team members included in GCV Rising Stars and other industry awards
- Team expansion and recent promotions.
Passing strategic inflection point creates new challenges
Introduction to the GCV Powerlist 2020 by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
Confronting the far-reaching Covid-19 challenges
GCV Powerlist 2020 Foreword by Young Sohn, GCV Leadership Society’s chairman and Samsung Electronics’ corporate president and chief strategy officer
The Top 25
Jeffrey Li
Tencent Investment
Maggie Wu
Alibaba Innovation Ventures
Amy Banse
Comcast Ventures
Larry Illg
Prosus Ventures (formerly Naspers Ventures)
Francis Ho and Shankar Chandran
Samsung Catalyst Fund
David Krane
GV (formerly Google Ventures)
Wendell Brooks and Anthony Lin
Intel Capital
Barbara Dalton
Pfizer Ventures
Anja König
Novartis Venture Fund
Rajeev Misra and Marcelo Claure
SoftBank Vision Fund
Gen Tsuchikawa
Sony Innovation Fund
Nagraj Kashyap
M12 (Microsoft Ventures)
Quinn Li
Qualcomm Ventures
Geert van de Wouw
Shell Ventures
Lisa Lambert
National Grid Partners
John Somorjai
Salesforce Ventures
Jacqueline LeSage Krause
Munich Re Ventures
Bill Taranto
Merck Global Health Innovation Fund
David Hayes
BP Ventures
Annabelle Long
Bertelsmann Asia Investments
Arvind Purushotham
Citi Ventures
Girish Nadkarni
Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures
Carole Nuechterlein
Roche Venture Fund
Robert Coppedge
Echo Health Ventures
Barbara Burger
Chevron Technology Ventures
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Ore Adeyemi
HSBC Strategic Innovation Investments
Kitty Agarwal
Info Edge Ventures
Saemin Ahn
Rakuten Ventures
Lak Ananth
Siemens’s Next47
Roy Bahat
Bloomberg Beta
John Banta
Blue Venture Fund
Chris Bartlett
Verizon Ventures
Josh Berg
Magna Innovation Ventures
Paul Bernard
Amazon‘s Alexa Fund
Jasper Bos
Merck Group’s M Ventures
Kenneth Bronfin and Scott English
Hearst Ventures
Gareth Burns
Equinor Ventures
Tony Cannestra
Denso Ventures
Scott Caruso
CableLabs
Suzanna Chiu
Amadeus Ventures
Iain Cooper
Schlumberger
Scott Darling
Dell Technologies Capital
Heri Diarte
Schneider Electric Ventures (SE Ventures)
Kay Enjoji
TEL Venture Capital
Kip Frey
HG Ventures
Stefan Gabriel
Hitachi Ventures
Tarik Galijasevic
Allstate Strategic Ventures
Javier García
Femsa Ventures
Jesús García and Héctor Shibata Salazar
Arca Continental and AC Ventures
George Gogolev
Severstal Ventures
Irene Gómez and Guenia Gawendo
Telefónica Connected Open Innovation and Telefónica Innovation Ventures
Phil Graves
Patagonia’s Tin Shed Ventures
Angie Grimm
IBM Ventures
Robert Günther and Paolo Bavaj
Henkel Ventures
Sven Harmsen
Nova by Saint-Gobain
Aldi Adrian Hartanto
MDI Ventures
Derek Idemoto
Cisco Investments
Takayuki Inagawa
NTT Docomo Ventures
Ram Jambunathan
SAP.iO
Ilonka Jankovich and Paul Jacquin
Randstad Innovation Fund
Kurt Kaltenegger
ABB Technology Ventures
Anand Kamannavar
Applied Ventures
Harumi Kato and Yuichi Kawakami
NEC Capital Solutions
Dong-Su Kim
LG Technology Ventures
Jonathan Larsen
Ping An Global Voyager Fund
Jon Lauckner
General Motors Ventures
Crispin Leick
EnBW New Ventures
Scott Lenet
Touchdown Ventures
Tom Lounibos
Accenture Ventures
Timmeko Moore Love
Entergy Strategic Ventures
Blake Luse
Ferguson Ventures
Kenny Man
Ant Financial
Brad McManus
Motorola Solutions Venture Capital
Dominique Mégret
Swisscom Ventures
Bernhard Mohr
Evonik Venture Capital
Søren Moller
Novo Seeds
Faran Nouri
Lam Capital
Karen Elisabeth Ohm Heskja
DNB Ventures
Rich Osborn
Telus Ventures
Sanjiv Parikh
Avanta Ventures
Jessica Peltz-Zatulove
MDC Ventures
Chris Picariello
Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC
Bill Qian
JD Digits
Ingo Ramesohl and Philipp Rose
Robert Bosch Venture Capital
François Robinet
Axa Venture Partners
Erik Ross
Nationwide Ventures
Hiroshi Saijou and Jim Adler
Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development and Toyota AI Ventures
Harshul Sanghi
American Express Ventures
Nicolas Sauvage
TDK Ventures
Brian Schettler
Boeing HorizonX Ventures
Mihir Shah and Yishai Lerner
JLL Technologies
Bonny Simi and Raj Singh
JetBlue Technology Ventures
Jon Soberg and Tak Sato
MS&AD Ventures
Sune Stilling
Maersk Growth
Jonathan Tudor
Centrica Innovations
Erin VanLanduit
Tyson Ventures
Harrie Vollaard
Rabo Frontier Ventures
Heather Wasserman
Eli Lilly
Ben Wright
3M Ventures
Michael Young
Caterpillar Ventures
GCV Powerlist 2020 PDF
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