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Ulrich has been working for the BMW Group for more than 13 years. He has been Managing Director of BMW i Ventures since July 2011. Ulrich is on the board of Chargepoint and MyCityWay. Before heading the Venture Group of BMW, Ulrich was a department manager in the legal department of BMW, both in Germany and England. He holds a phD in International Private Law.

Jeremiah Owyang is an Industry Analyst on Customer Strategy and a Partner at Altimeter Group. As author of teh blog "Web Strategy" (rated by Edelman as top Analyst Blog since 2008), he focuses on how corporations connect with their customers using web technologies. Jeremiah hails previously from Forrester Research as a Senor Analyst focused on Social Computing for the Interactive Marketer and takes pride in launching and managing Hitachi Data Systems' Social Media program in 2005-2007. Jeremiah, along with the Customer Strategy team, has published numerous research reports focused on social business. He has been frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today, and he is a frequent keynote speaker at business and technology conferences around the world. He also served as the Intranet Architect at World Savings (now Wells Fargo) and was a user experience professional at Exodus Communications after receiving his Marketing Bachelor's degree at SFSU. After work, he spends time with family, gets in some exercise, and travels to tropical beaches. Jeremiah was pleasantly surprised to find that his small, white, furry dog Rumba is active on Twitter.

Dr. Chenyang Xu is General Manager of Technology-to-Business Center (TTB), a part of Siemens Corporate Research, located in Berkeley, California. Dr. Xu drives innovation processes for TTB, including the identification, incubation, and investment of disruptive technologies outside of Siemens that can be built into viable new products and businesses for Siemens’ sectors. Between July 2009 and March 2010, Dr. Xu served as the Chief Technology Officer of TTB. Prior to transitioning to TTB, Dr. Xu served as program manager of the interventional imaging program at Corporate Research, where he had taken on increasing roles of responsibility since his arrival in 2000. In his last role with the division, he led a team that developed a number of transformational technology products through strategic alliance with small and large companies. In 2006, he co-founded the Siemens Center for Medical Imaging Validation (CMIV) in Beijing, China, opened to spur the development of the company’s first large-scale automated medical imaging product validation software platform. Dr. Xu earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He serves on the industrial advisory board of University of California at Berkeley - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the advisory board at the University of California’s - Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and a member of the advisory council of the Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum.

IBF*International Business Forum is proud to announce the nominees of the 15th Annual Corporate Venturing & Innovation Partnering Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.

This honor is extended by IBF to indivudals who, during their lifetime and career, have made a significant, fundamental contribution to the growth and sustainability of corporate venturing and innovation partnerships through their vision, creativity, leadership, commitment and passion.

These contributions have advanced or had a lasting impact on the industry and a lifetime of achievement in intellectual and practical leadership supporting the sustainable growth of the corporate/start-up collaborative ecosystem.

Mr. Holtsberg currently serves as Co-Head of Portfolio Management of The Tokarz Group Advisers LLC (the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund. Mr. Holtsberg founded Motorola Ventures, the venture capital and equity investment arm for Motorola, Inc. where he led the worldwide fund for eight years. He was also Corporate Vice President and Director of Equity Investments at Motorola. Mr. Holtsberg currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Venture Capital Association, Sportvision, the Big Shoulders Fund and the Chicagoland Entrepreneurship Center and Illinois Ventures, the venture investment arm for the University of Illinois. Mr. Holtsberg serves on the advisory board of the Arcapita Fund. Mr. Holtsberg serves as a director for U.S. Gas & Electric, Inc. and MVC Partners LLC, portfolio companies of the Fund.

Motorola Solutions Venture Capital is the global, strategic investment arm of Motorola Solutions, bringing together new technologies, new markets and new talent to discover and invest in tomorrow's technology solutions.

Claudia Fan Munce has been the Managing Director of the IBM Venture Capital Group since 2004. In addition to this role, she is Vice President of Corporate Strategy. Ms. Munce joined IBM’s Research Division in 1985 and held many technical and business leadership positions. Claudia served as the chairwoman of U.S. Venture Capital Association corporate advisory board and a board member of Latin America Venture Capital Association. She is currently serving on the advisory board of several venture firms.

IBM’s Venture Capital Group is the global venture arm of IBM at the corporate level that seeks to build strategic relationships with venture capital firms and their portfolio companies, focusing on growth markets and emerging technologies. Venture Capital Group’s mission is to promote an innovation ecosystem engaging the full range of IBM resources and capabilities with that of its venture capital partners and other key innovation drivers to maximize growth opportunities.

Mr. Vadasz was part of Intel's founding team in 1968, in which he held a variety of engineering and business management positions during his career. He was responsible for the inception and legacy of Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment program, which was established in 1991.

Intel Capital’s ongoing mission is to spur innovation and inspire the entrepreneurial spirit in support of Intel's vision of creating and extending computing technology to connect and enrich the lives of every person on earth.