Rising Stars: Selection
The 100 Rising Stars in this, the inaugural Global Corporate Venturing awards, represent the top 1% of the industry.
Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) selected these stars as representing the brightest prospects, and those who have already been changing the industry. The selection process involved researching more than 10,000 industry professionals across more than 1,000 corporate venturing units to identify these stars. GCV was looking for those below the top rank of the venturing hierarchy in long-established units, based on their deals, career development so far, being an heir apparent and being the glue in the unit.
For newer units, the criteria were more about ambition and desire to represent best practices and use experiences often gained elsewhere to improve the industry.
For both sets of stars, as well as the longer list of potential candidates and nominations received and examined, the input of their managers was important as nominators and for their feedback on why these stars were so good.
An industry grows and develops in proportion with its talent, which often can blossom only with the right mentoring, training and role models.
Andy Grove, former CEO of chip-maker Intel, in his book High-Output Management, said there were two tools for a manager – motivation and training. Naturally, the managers of these stars are also something special, and many of them are represented in the GCV Powerlist of the industry’s greatest leaders, which will be published on May 23 2016 ahead of the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium in London.
We are delighted to welcome both the stars and their managers to the invitation-only awards dinner in Sonoma, California, on January 26.
