Sam Perry

Current

• Visiting Fellow at Stanford University - Reuters Digital Vision Program
• President at Ascendance Ventures

Past

• Vice President of Marketing at NextSet Software
• Senior Vice President at NextSet Software
• Director at Reuters Greenhouse

• Senior Correspondent / Editor at Reuters
• board director at Epicentric
• Nordic Correspondent at UPI - United Press International

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Education

• Cass Business School
• University of Cambridge
• Stockholms University

• Harvard University

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Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Sam Perry’s Experience

• Visiting Fellow

  Stanford University - Reuters Digital Vision Program

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Establishing community and communications tools for civic-minded individuals to prepare for and to help assist victims of humanitarian disasters and disruptions. The Reuters Digital Vision project is establishing a prototype reference and networking resource for individuals and civic organizers, even relief workers, government officials, military personnel and companies working to reduce the toll of callamities estimated to impact the lives of two billion people - or nearly one in every three people on earth.

• President

  Ascendance Ventures

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2001 — Present (7 years 1 month)

  • Independent consultancy advising serial entrepreneurs and startup teams on corporate development, financing, etc.
  • Build and maintain relationships with business and technology industry leaders both to enhance the portfolio’s standing in the industry and to create business opportunities for the companies in Ascendance’s network.

• Vice President of Marketing

  NextSet Software

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

  • Managed company’s marketing program during an extensive scaling back and restructuring of the company, which provides infrastructure software and services to the banking and electronic commerce industries.

• Senior Vice President

  NextSet Software

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2000 — January 2001 (11 months)

  • Sourced and evaluated new investment opportunities.
  • Managed second largest ever [after Crossworlds] Angel funding of a Silicon Valley startup, March 2000.
  • Established program and team for an infrastructure software for equity program to establish and extend the network of NextSet Software customers in the targeted industries of financial services and e-commerce.

• Director

  Reuters Greenhouse

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; RTRSY; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  1997 — 2000 (3 years)

  • Sourced, performed diligence and managed investments in technology and software companies and maintained relationships in Reuters’ venture investment portfolio. Companies in which led or co-led investment and/or held board seat included Epicentric [sold to Vignette Corp.], VentureOne [sold to Wicks Business Information], Tacit Communications, On24, Aurigin, Bitpipe and Digimarc. The Reuters portfolio included leading technology infrastructure and information companies, such as Yahoo!, Infoseek [Sold to ABC/Disney], Verisign, Intertrust, and Sportsline.
  • Established relations between portfolio companies and Reuters business units.
  • Managed Greenhouse incubator development project to showcase and test models for utilizing technologies of portfolio companies for extending Reuters offerings.
  • Developed and managed annual Silicon Valley ‘Technology Tour’ for Reuters board members and senior company executives.

• Senior Correspondent / Editor

  Reuters

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RTRSY; Writing and Editing industry)

  1987 — 2000 (13 years)

  Senior Correspondent - Silicon Valley 1996-1997 Palo Alto CA
  • Established and managed high tech news bureau.
  
  Editor and Senior Correspondent 1993-1996 London, England
  • Developed TV spot coverage for Reuters Business Television and Sky News.
  • Launch editor of Reuters Air Cargo Service.
  
  Northwest (U.S) Correspondent 1991 – 1993 Seattle, WA
  • Opened Reuters’ first Seattle bureau, initiating direct coverage of Microsoft, Boeing, and the Pacific Northwest region, including launch of a NW energy report.
  
  Wall Street Correspondent & Technology Specialist 1987 – 1991 New York, NY
  • Led reporting on end of 1980s LBO era, including takeover battles for Hollywood studios and NCR, and collapse of high-flying investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert.
  • Day-to-day manager of a newly formed Wall Street stock market reporting unit.
  • As Technology Specialist, responsible for U.S. technology industry coverage.
  • Covered 1988 Presidential race and U.N. sessions.

• board director

  Epicentric

  (Online Media industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

• Nordic Correspondent

  UPI - United Press International

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  June 1983 — May 1986 (3 years)

Sam Perry’s Education

• Cass Business School

  MBA, 1994 — 1996

• University of Cambridge

  M. Phil., International Relations, 1985 — 1986

• Stockholms University

  Certificate for Mid-Career Journalists, Economics and Future of Society, August 1982 — June 1983

• Harvard University

  B.A. [cum laude], Social Studies Honors Program, 1977 — 1981

Additional Information

Sam Perry’s Interests:

Hobbies: ice hockey, pond hockey, cycling, sailing, rock and ice climbing, archipelago skating [Sweden], photography, soccer, and travel. • Languages: Swedish, with conversational and reading knowledge of Danish and Norwegian. • Studied Latin through College AP level and, briefly, Russian and Swahili. • Vista Volunteer, Williamsburg West Virginia, January – August 1980. • The Sandy New Era: Staff Reporter, 1980

Sam Perry’s Groups:

•    Cass Business School MBA Alumni

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