Profile: Bonny Simi, president of JetBlue Technology Ventures (JTV)
“Starting a new CVC unit was both a challenge and an opportunity because there was a completely clean sheet and the ability to shape it from the ground up, leveraging learnings from the entire CVC and VC worlds,” Bonny Simi, president of JetBlue Technology Ventures (JTV), the strategic investment arm of US-based airline operator JetBlue Airways, told Global Corporate Venturing.
Corporate venture capital (CVC) had somewhat of a turbulent past, so before Simi started devising the unit in late 2015,…