Thomas H. Glocer | |
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Born |
New York City, New York, U.S. | October 8, 1959
Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
Columbia University (BA) Yale Law School (JD) |
Occupation(s) | Former CEO of Thomson Reuters and Reuters |
Spouse | Maarit |
Children | 2 |
Tom Glocer (born October 8, 1959) is an American business executive and the former CEO of Thomson Reuters and Reuters.
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]