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Tom Glocer

Tom Glocer (born October 8, 1959) is an American business executive and the former CEO of Thomson Reuters and Reuters.

Biography

He is a co-founder and executive chairman of BlueVoyant and Capitolis, as well as cyber defense and fintech start-ups.[1][2] He is also a partner in Communitas Capital, an early-stage venture fund focusing on investments in financial technology and marketplaces, and the Chairman of ISTARI, a new type of cyber risk management company. [3][4]

Glocer is a director of Merck & Co.,[5] Morgan Stanley (Lead Director),[6] and Publicis Groupe; a member and former director of the Council on Foreign Relations;[7] a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic; a member of, the President's Council on International Activities at Yale University, the Yale Law School Executive Committee, the Yale School of Management Council,[8] the Columbia University Global Center (Paris) Board,[9] the Atlantic Council, the International Tennis Hall of Fame Board, the European Business Leaders Council, and the Madison Council of the Library of Congress.[10]

Glocer stepped down from Thomson Reuters at the end of 2011[11] and is now managing partner of Angelic Ventures, LP, a family office investing in fintech, media, “big data”, and healthcare, e.g., Windward.[12][10] He is also an advisory board member of Afiniti, an American big data and artificial intelligence business.[13][14] He held a number of senior leadership positions at Reuters, including president of Reuters LatAm and Reuters America, before being named CEO of Reuters Group PLC in July 2001.[15] Before joining Reuters, initially the legal department in 1993, he had worked as a merger and acquisitions lawyer for American law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, Paris, and Tokyo.[16]

Glocer holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.[17] He is married to Finnish model Maarit Glocer (Leso) with two children and lives in New York City.[18][19]

External links

References

  1. Thomas Glocer BlueVoyant, retrieved 2021-09-03^
  2. Tom Glocer Capitolis, retrieved 2021-09-03^
  3. Tom Glocer Communitas Capital, retrieved 2021-09-03^
  4. People istari-global.com, retrieved 2021-10-11^
  5. Thomas H. Glocer Merck.com, retrieved 2021-09-03^
  6. Board of Directors Morgan Stanley, retrieved 2021-09-03^
  7. A Conversation with Thomas H. Glocer, CEO of Thomson Reuters Council on Foreign Relations, retrieved 2021-09-03^
  8. Yale Law & Business Society to Honor Thomas Glocer '84 law.yale.edu, retrieved 2021-09-03^
  9. Paris Advisory Board globalcenters.columbia.edu, retrieved 2021-09-03^
  10. Thomas H. Glocer www.k2integrity.com, retrieved 2021-09-03^
  11. Edmund Lee. Thomson Reuters CEO Glocer Steps Down as Smith Takes Over Bloomberg, December 2, 2011, retrieved April 9, 2015^
  12. Investors Company website of Windward Ltd., retrieved October 21, 2018^
  13. Princess Beatrice wins her first high-profile client as a business matchmaker The Telegraph, retrieved 2017-05-29^
  14. Tom Glocer Afiniti, retrieved 2021-09-03^
  15. Thomas H. Glocer. Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters^
  16. First non-journalist to take over at Reuters The Guardian, 7 Dec 2000, retrieved October 21, 2018^
  17. A Force for Good: An Interview with Thomas H. Glocer, Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Leaders, November 2011, retrieved April 9, 2015^
  18. Merja Asikainen. 70-luvun kauneuskuningatar Maarit Leso, 62, elää kansainvälistä luksuselämää: "Huolet ja tunteet ovat ihan samoja kuin kaikilla muillakin" Ilta-Sanomat, June 25, 2018, retrieved 23 February 2021^
  19. Eve Tahmincioglu. From the Sandbox to the Corner Office: Lessons Learned on the Journey to the Top John Wiley & Sons, 2006-09-30^