Tamara is a business and sales leader with 20 years of experience driving growth and facilitating successful exits for early-stage consumer and enterprise start-ups. She has scaled teams, infrastructures, and products at six start-ups, and she’s managed field operations, engineering, and customer support divisions at multibillion dollar organizations, such as Microsoft and Openwave. She’s a master of complex, multi-party deals and has an uncanny ability to envision and successfully evangelize the potential of nascent technology. Tamara currently leads the global investment team at Thomson Reuters Ventures, a $100M strategic fund with financial returns as the objective. She previously led investing and venture capital partnerships in North America and India for M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. She was the executive sponsor of the fund’s Female Founders Competition and sat on the board of 11 portfolio companies to provide guidance around sales, go-to-market, and talent acquisition strategies. Before joining M12, Tamara led business development for the broader Office 365 organization and was responsible for building Microsoft Outlook’s mobile strategy from the ground up to more than 100M users in one year. In this role, she architected, negotiated, and closed one of the largest deals in Microsoft’s history: a multibillion dollar partnership between Samsung, Google, and multiple telecom operators. Tamara joined Microsoft through the company’s acquisition of email app, Acompli, a sale she negotiated as the start-up’s Senior Vice President of Business Development. Over the course of her career, Tamara has positioned and facilitated the sales of multiple other start-ups, including Path (a mobile-only social network, acquired by KakaoTalk), Fusion One (a mobile cloud backup solution, acquired by Synchronoss), and Color (live streaming technology, acquired by Apple). She also helped to facilitate the IPOs of Boingo (WiFi) and Software.com (email). Tamara started her tech career at Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics in an era when major telecoms were pioneering internet services for the first time. She has a B.S. in Finance from Michigan State University, and sits on the Broad Business School Board for Michigan State, as well as the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Joe is currently a Partner at Thomson Reuters Ventures, a $100M corporate venture fund where he leads a team of global investors. Joe has held a variety of strategy, finance, and product roles over his 15-year career. He has led M&A deals valued in the hundreds of millions, driven strategy for multibillion dollar organizations, and helped scale high growth software products. As an investor Joe specializes in machine learning, automation, blockchain and enterprise SaaS startups. Previously, he led corporate strategy for Thomson Reuters Legal Tech business. Joe is also active in the New York tech scene where he works with several incubators and early-stage startups as an advisor. He started his career at a data tech startup where he discovered his passion for the world of venture capital. Joe has a B.A. in Political Science from Siena College and an MBA in Finance and Management from Fordham Gabelli School of Business.

Hossein is an analyst on the Thomson Reuters Ventures team. His background is primarily in early-stage investing in developed and developing markets with strong sector focuses spanning Fintech, Tax Tech, and enterprise SaaS. He is responsible for deal sourcing and evaluation as well as thesis creation in the aforementioned verticals. Raised in Cairo, Egypt, Hossein has a B.A. in Economics and Sociology from the University of Toronto. 

Vaneezeh is an analyst on the Thomson Reuters Ventures team. She has a background in strategy, data analytics, and product management across corporate and start-up environments. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a major in statistics and minors in computer science and business. While in university, she was a senior associate with Front Row Ventures, a student-led venture fund backing Canadian student founders, and sat on the Advisory Group for Accelerate Her Future, a national career accelerator for black, Indigenous, and women of color in tech. At Thomson Reuters Ventures, Vaneezeh is responsible for sourcing, diligence, brand management, and is building a thesis in cybersecurity.

Jill is an executive assistant on the Thomson Reuters Ventures team. She's been involved in business management for over thirty years, and has worked at the Boeing Company, The Nature Conservancy, and M12. Growing up in the Seattle area, Jill attended Cornish College of the Arts, and has self-published several historical novels.