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Tom Glocer

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Thomas H. Glocer
Glocer at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, 2010
Born (1959-10-08) October 8, 1959 (age 65)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma materColumbia University (BA)
Yale Law School (JD)
Occupation(s)Former CEO of Thomson Reuters and Reuters
SpouseMaarit
Children2

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

Biography

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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 [fi] (née Leso) with two children and lives in New York City.[18][19]

References

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  1. ^ "Thomas Glocer". BlueVoyant. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  2. ^ "Tom Glocer". Capitolis. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  3. ^ "Tom Glocer". Communitas Capital. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  4. ^ "People". istari-global.com. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  5. ^ "Thomas H. Glocer". Merck.com. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  6. ^ "Board of Directors". Morgan Stanley. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  7. ^ "A Conversation with Thomas H. Glocer, CEO of Thomson Reuters". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  8. ^ "Yale Law & Business Society to Honor Thomas Glocer '84". law.yale.edu. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  9. ^ "Paris Advisory Board | Columbia Global Centers". globalcenters.columbia.edu. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Thomas H. Glocer". www.k2integrity.com. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  11. ^ Lee, Edmund (December 2, 2011). "Thomson Reuters CEO Glocer Steps Down as Smith Takes Over". Bloomberg. 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 May 29, 2017.
  14. ^ "Tom Glocer | Team". Afiniti. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  15. ^ "Thomas H. Glocer. Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters". Archived from the original on July 22, 2010.
  16. ^ "First non-journalist to take over at Reuters". The Guardian. December 7, 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. ^ 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.
  19. ^ 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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