The challenge is meshing apparently nonaligned strategies. Question and answer with Reed Elsevier Ventures.

Reed Elsevier Ventures is one of the few corporate funds set up in 2000 – the heady days of the dot.com bubble – to be celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Diana Noble, above left, former partner at Schroder Ventures (now Permira), was persuaded to lead it, and first to join her was Tony Askew, centre. Kevin Brown, right, followed Askew across as a principal and was promoted to partner the next year. Noble stepped down as managing partner at…