İskender Dirik has taken on a managing director role at Samsung Next following corporate venturing stints at Bauer Media and Microsoft.
İskender Dirik, formerly CEO for software provider Microsoft’s continental Europe scaleup accelerator, has joined Samsung’s corporate venturing unit, Samsung Next, as managing director.
Still based in Berlin, Germany, after two and a half years with Microsoft, Dirik said he would start at Samsung this week and help to define its focus areas for Europe.
Dirik had previously been MD for Bauer Venture Partners, the €100m ($110m) corporate venture capital fund for Bauer Media, a media company focusing on magazine publishing…
