Fundamentals of Corporate Venturing London 20
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Fundamentals of Corporate Venturing London 20
Fundamentals of Corporate Venturing Corporate venturing now has over 1,100 organisations having ‘corporate venture units’, a third of which have been launched in the past three years. Corporate venturing is becoming more mature and there is still a need for learning and mistakes from the past to grow strategic value. This programme, which has been developed by Global Corporate Venturing, Andrew Gaule and leaders of corporate venturing units around the world, aims to: Accelerate your understanding of corporate venturing to build your knowledge and skills in corporate venturing Enhance the capabilities of executives, venture teams and stakeholders responsible for supporting venturing Provide an understanding of CVC language, approaches and develop a strategy for corporate venturing that suits your own organisation. London 20-21 Jan. 2015 Who should attend? The participants in the programme will be executives from leading global organisations who are driving or considering corporate venturing and innovation programmes. Managing directors of corporate venturing units, venture team members, champions of venturing in business units, senior executives in corporates, partners and service organisations involved in corporate venturing. ‘Executives and teams involved in corporate venturing will benefit from the development of capabilities and gaining knowledge and experience of practitioners in the fundamentals of corporate venturing’ Claudia Fan Munce, IBM Ventures Training programme approaches and tools The Fundamentals of Corporate Venturing provide the The programme will include a variety of approaches key principles and approaches to corporate venturing. which have been proved to be effective in building This programme will help you and your organisation participant capabilities and gaining results. develop and deliver a CV programme which gives Best practise frameworks and structures for strategic and financial benefits to your firm. corporate innovation and venturing Discussion groups What participants will learn Case studies of VC, CVC investment Strategic innovation and venturing objectives Role play by participants Different processes for Venturing, Corporate Venture Capital and types of CVC Benefits Key tax, legal and regulatory issues Benefits of participation include: Corporate perspective on term sheets Increased effectiveness and efficiency, leading to: Portfolio management, planning and funding of o Lower cost of venture set up Corporate Venturing o Faster capability development to make better Governance approaches investment and partnering decisions Corporate Venturing teams, capabilities and roles o More effective communication and working in ventures and corporate business units with core business to drive strategic benefit International context and varying approaches by o Reduced risk of failure geographies Building your business case for your C-suite pitch Partnering with VCs, Incubators, Universities, Increasing your understanding of effective advisors and the Corporate Venturing eco-system processes and coordination with wider strategic Performance measures and the means of innovation objectives reporting strategic and financial benefits Creating more engagement from the team, business units and other stakeholders This programme will not cover the detail of deal VC Performance delivery with better planning, investment training covered by organisations such as measurement and reporting BVCA and EVCA. Current Scheduled Programmes Further details at www.gcvacademy.com 5 / 6 February 2015 June 2015 Silicon Valley London Join us London 20 -21 January 2015 Speakers Faculty Jonathan Tudor (Venture Director, Castrol innoVentures) is responsible for their external venture and fund investments. Prior to this, he was a partner in a UK-US venture fund focused on creating and growing technology companies in multiple sectors. He has been involved in corporate venturing since the internet boom of the late 1990′s when he worked for Schott Glas in Germany, before moving to the UK to join the ventures team of QinetiQ a global defence and security technology business. Andrew Gaule for over 14 years has been advising and working with leading corporates to set up Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation programmes. Andrew founded Henley-Incubator which became the leading CV and Innovation Corven Networks. Andrew has led strategic change, innovation and operational excellence initiatives at leading global organisations from the financial services, FMCG, defence, technology, health and government sectors. Girish Nadkarni (Managing Director and Head of ABB Technology Ventures, ATV). Girish has been at ABB since 2003, and in October 2009, he started ABB Technology Ventures, ABB’s corporate venture fund. ATV acts similarly to a traditional financial VC firm and uses ABB’s balance sheet. While there is never a “typical” investment, historically investments have ranged from $1-$20 million, investing in 4-6 new companies per year. Girish has consistently been listed in the GCV Powerlist 100. Mark Muth (PwC) supports corporates in strategy (setting objectives and defining the scope of the CVC business); advising on optimal tax and legal structures for CVC operations; providing due diligence support for new investments; assist portfolio companies with tax and corporate finance advice as they develop; help CVCs prepare their portfolio companies for exit; identify the best buyers for these companies and help negotiate the optimal deal on exit. Prior to joining PwC in April 2014, Mark was a Director of Unilever Ventures, the venture capital arm of Unilever plc, from its creation in 2002 until 2013. Neil Foster (Baker Botts) covers mergers & acquisitions, venture capital & private equity and corporate finance. His principal sector experience is in the areas of technology and telecommunications, media and entertainment, life sciences, healthcare and financial services. As well as advising UK companies, venture funds and intermediaries, Neil represents many large U.S., Middle Eastern, South African and Asian corporations on their UK and European deals. Venue Dinner Central London Baker Botts, 41 Lothbury London EC2R 7HF Thanks to Silicon Valley Bank Programme fee: £2,145.00 + VAT* (GCV Subscriber 25% discount, other partner discounts available) Discounts to £1,650 + VAT* Accomm. not included *Tax where applicable Further details and registration at www.GCVAcademy.com Previous programmes Short video from the London Programme. http://youtu.be/10wndHf0ECU Interviews with speakers available The average feedback score for the London GCV Academy Fundamentals of Corporate Venturing program was 8.8 out of 10 "The Fundamentals of Corporate Venturing programme provides a good opportunity for open discussion and touches on all relevant points. I found most valuable the experienced speakers from industry which was not academic but real." Corporate Venturing executive of leading global financial services business "The GCV Academy Fundamentals of Corporate Venturing program provides a very condensed coverage of the key topics with good practical examples and insights from industry experts. I will now take a fresh look at each 'piece of the puzzle' on how to structure the Corporate Venturing activities going forward." Head of venturing for Global leading pharmaceutical, chemical and life science company Neil Foster – Baker Botts Mark Muth - PWC Jonathan Tudor - Castrol innoVentures Tony Askew - Reed Elesvier "I would highly recommend the GCV Academy Fundamentals of Corporate Venturing. I most valued the experiences of the CVC that presented and the experience of the speakers." Corporate Venturer in Telecom "I would recommend the GCV Academy Fundamentals of Corporate Venturing to any organisation which doesn't have a CVC unit yet. I most valued the information about the set-up of existing CVCs." Global premium automotive company executive "I most valued the case studies of companies and the experience the speakers brought into the 2 day programme." Professor from Leading academic institute Further details and registration at www.GCVAcademy.com