Contents list for the GCV Powerlist 2020
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:
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
26 – 100 in alphabetical order
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
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