About the Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Selection

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 about 2,000 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, where heads of departments were often the most suitable star, 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 so for some of the 100 groups there are more than one person.

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 chipmaker 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 22 May 2018 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 30 January and my thanks to colleagues Alice Tchernookova, Robin Brinkworth and Sam McCaffrey for writing their share of the profiles, Christina Riboldi and her team for arranging the gala dinner and Keith Baldock for production of this supplement.

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Contents

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars 2018: Introduction

Introduction to the Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars 2018 by James Mawson, editor-in-chief

The Top 25

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #1 Stephen Zhu

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #2 Lisa Suennen, Risa Stack, Jonathan Pulitzer

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #3 Levin Yao

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #4 Akira Kirton

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #5 Russell Dreisenstock

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #6 Mauro D’Amato & Nick Washburn

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #7 Katie Gray

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #8 Stacy Feld

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #9 Ernest Fung

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #10 Xiaoyang Li

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #11 Wen Jiang

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #12 Chen Shaohui

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #13 Jonathan Larsen

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #14 Gil Beyda & Daniel Gulati

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #15 Karthik Subramanian

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #16 Rain Cui

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #17 Nathan Krishnamurthy

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #18 Varun Jain

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #19 Nan Zhou & Saman Farid

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #20 Joe Jeong

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #21 Nisha Dua

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #22 Merav Rotem Naaman

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #23 Bo Zhai

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #24 Pramila Mullan

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: #25 Ajay Sharma

The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order by company)

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Margarita Chavez

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Courtney Robinson

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Bharat Rajaram

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Suzanna Chiu

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Gladys Nunez

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Kevin Eggers

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Yan Yan Chen

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: John Kuelper

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Faraz Hoodbhoy

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Bharadwaj Ogirala

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Blake Arnold

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Kasper Sage

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Ilka Wicke

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Michael Lohnert

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Albert Shyy

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Christophe Defert

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Victoria Cheng

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Brian Kaas

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Blair Zhang

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Ankur Kamalia

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Lutz Stoeber

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Anne Jalkala

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Janie Yu

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Shabih Rizvi

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Megumi Ikeda

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Paolo Bavaj

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Oreoluwa Adeyemi

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Kevin Leung

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Ann Cheng

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Wendy Lung

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Karthik Prabhakar & Kamlesh Patre

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Alexis Ji

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Amy Francetic

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Sebastian Peck

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Elizabeth Rockett

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Eilat Cohen Basat

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Russell MacTough

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Judith Li

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Clara Shen

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Carrie Williams

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Francesca Wuttke

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Matthew Goldstein

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Kiersten Stead

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Arthur O’Keefe

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Sophie Dingreville

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Michal Silverberg

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Tiba Aynechi

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Soonhee Kim

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Virginia McFerran

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Bilal Djelassi

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Masahiro Kinoshita

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Roger Kitterman

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Alex Kremer

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Ilonka Jankovich

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Kara Frederick

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Michael Kim

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Meredith Finn

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Ram Jambunathan

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Carl Stjernfeldt

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Susana Quintana-Plaza

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Mike Martin

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Jill Carroll

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Michael Mahan

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Hong Truong

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Pär Lange

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Michael Hensinger

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Ana Segurado

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Scott Levine

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Jim Adler

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Reese Schroeder

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Amit Aysola

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Amir Fridman

Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2018: Fay Xing