Industry legend: Davis cycles into Global Corporate Venturing's hall of fame.
If US-based healthcare group Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has an "outsized place" in corporate venturing over the past 40 years then its newly-retired president, Roy Davis (pictured), can take much of the credit for helping shape its most recent successes.
In a cycling analogy – Davis raced to a high level in the sport – it could be said he has won the yellow jersey.
Davis took over in January 2008 as president of Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation…