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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