Tom Glocer

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

Thomas H. Glocer
Glocer at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, 2010
Born (1959-10-08) October 8, 1959
New York City, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University
Yale Law School
OccupationFormer CEO of Thomson Reuters and Reuters
Spouse(s)Maarit
Children2

Biography

He is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of each of BlueVoyant LLC and Capitolis Inc., cyber defense and fintech start-ups, respectively. He is also a partner in Communitas Capital LLC, an early stage venture fund focusing on investments in financial technology and marketplaces.

Glocer is a director of Merck & Co., Morgan Stanley(Lead Director) and Publicis Groupe; a member and former director of the Council on Foreign Relations; 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, the Columbia University Global Center (Paris) Board, the Atlantic Council, the International Tennis Hall of Fame Board, Board, the European Business Leaders Council, and the Madison Council of the Library of Congress.

Glocer stepped down from Thomson Reuters at the end of 2011[1], and is now managing partner of Angelic Ventures, LP, a family office investing in fintech, media, “big data” and healthcare, e.g. Windward.[2] He is also an advisory board member of Afiniti, an American big data and artificial intelligence business.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]

Glocer holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.[6] He is married with two children and lives in New York City

References
  1. Lee, Edmund (December 2, 2011). "Thomson Reuters CEO Glocer Steps Down as Smith Takes Over". Bloomberg. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  2. "Investors". Company website of Windward Ltd. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  3. "Princess Beatrice wins her first high-profile client as a business matchmaker". The Telegraph. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  4. {{url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722163219/http://thomsonreuters.com/content/corporate/biographies/Tom_Glocer|title=Thomas H. Glocer. Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters|Way Back Machine}}
  5. "First non-journalist to take over at Reuters". The Guardian. December 7, 2000. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  6. "A Force for Good: An Interview with Thomas H. Glocer, Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters". Leaders. November 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2015.


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