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

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and

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Biography

He is a co-founder and executive chairman of BlueVoyant and Capitolis, as well as cyber defense and fintech start-ups. 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. Glocer is a director of Merck & Co.,

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in 42 countries and more than 80,000 employees, the firm's clients in ...

(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, 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 and is now managing partner of Angelic Ventures, LP, a family office investing in fintech, media, “big data”, and healthcare, e.g., Windward. He is also an advisory board member of Afiniti, an American big data and artificial intelligence business. 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. 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. Glocer holds a bachelor's degree in political science from

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

and a J.D. from

Yale Law School Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United ...

. He is married to Finnish model () with two children and lives in

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

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External links

Tom Glocer's blog
1959 births Living people Columbia College (New York) alumni Yale Law School alumni 20th-century American businesspeople American chief executives of financial services companies Directors of Morgan Stanley Thomson Reuters people Davis Polk & Wardwell lawyers Merck & Co. people American venture capitalists American businesspeople American company founders {{US-business-bio-1950s-stub