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, cyber defense and fintech start-ups, respectively.[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 (née Leso) with two children and lives in New York City.[18][19]
References
- ^ "Thomas Glocer". BlueVoyant. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
- ^ "Tom Glocer". Capitolis. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
- ^ "Tom Glocer". Communitas Capital. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
- ^ "People". istari-global.com. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
- ^ "Thomas H. Glocer". Merck.com. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Morgan Stanley. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
- ^ "A Conversation with Thomas H. Glocer, CEO of Thomson Reuters". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
- ^ "Yale Law & Business Society to Honor Thomas Glocer '84". law.yale.edu. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
- ^ "Paris Advisory Board | Columbia Global Centers". globalcenters.columbia.edu. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
- ^ a b "Thomas H. Glocer". www.k2integrity.com. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
- ^ Lee, Edmund (December 2, 2011). "Thomson Reuters CEO Glocer Steps Down as Smith Takes Over". Bloomberg. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
- ^ "Investors". Company website of Windward Ltd. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
- ^ "Princess Beatrice wins her first high-profile client as a business matchmaker". The Telegraph. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
- ^ "Tom Glocer | Team". Afiniti. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
- ^ "Thomas H. Glocer. Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters". Archived from the original on July 22, 2010.
- ^ "First non-journalist to take over at Reuters". The Guardian. December 7, 2000. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
- ^ "A Force for Good: An Interview with Thomas H. Glocer, Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters". Leaders. November 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
- ^ Asikainen, Merja (June 25, 2018). "70-luvun kauneuskuningatar Maarit Leso, 62, elää kansainvälistä luksuselämää: "Huolet ja tunteet ovat ihan samoja kuin kaikilla muillakin"". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved February 23, 2021.
- ^ Tahmincioglu, Eve (September 30, 2006). From the Sandbox to the Corner Office: Lessons Learned on the Journey to the Top. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-05416-1.
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