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.

Josef Najm joins Thomson Reuters as a Principal on the Ventures team, bringing with him a wealth of experience in managing partnerships and strategic initiatives across the media landscape. Josef's focus areas will be across early-stage technology companies in Legal Technology, Tax & Accounting, Fintech, Risk Fraud & Compliance, and News & Media. Over the past 5.5 years, Josef has worked at Reuters on the commercial side, achieving the prestigious President's Club in 2022 and leading a global team of partnership and activation leads. Josef has been a provoking thought leader advocating for the importance of supporting News and journalism via brand advertising dollars. Before joining Reuters, Josef held positions at MediaMath, L'Oreal, and Diageo, where he drove innovation and set standards in the evolving landscape of media buying. His career began in politics, working for the US Senate and DC consulting firms, before transitioning to the media and advertising industries. Josef holds a degree in Political Science from The Catholic University of America. Having moved to New York City, he brings a diverse perspective from his varied career experiences. Outside of work, he enjoys engaging with the community and exploring new networking opportunities (when not busy raising his new son!).

Jack is a Principal at Thomson Reuters Ventures, where he focuses on investing in leading vertical AI/SaaS and enterprise software companies relevant to TR. With over five years of experience across private equity, growth equity, and venture capital, Jack is passionate about backing category-defining vertical AI/SaaS businesses. He is particularly excited about the next wave of vertical AI solutions, which are pushing past the limitations of traditional vertical market software to unlock entirely new efficiencies and workflows. Jack began his career at AlphaSights, where he connected top-tier venture capital and growth equity investors with world-class industry expertise to inform investment decisions. He then transitioned to JMI Equity, a leading buyout and growth equity firm focused on B2B enterprise and vertical software. At JMI, he evaluated early- and growth-stage companies in legal, accounting, and office-of-the-CFO software and helped pioneer the firm’s lower-middle-market tech buyout strategy. Most recently, Jack was a venture capital Investor at Citi Ventures, Citigroup's CVC, where he led the firm’s early-stage and venture growth strategy in vertical AI for financial services. During his tenure, he sourced and led six investments in under 18 months. Jack received his bachelor’s degree in finance with a minor in psychology from The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. You can often find him at networking events, conferences, and other professional gatherings around New York City, where he actively cultivates his network of founders, operators, and investors. Outside of work, Jack loves running, cycling, and skiing and enjoys listening to a variety of music and podcasts.

Alex is an investor at Thomson Reuters Ventures where he focuses on AI, Enterprise Saas, and technology companies across North America, LatAm, Europe and SEA. Alex has several years of experience in early-stage investing and financial transactions. He has successfully executed and led 10+ investments across AI, Enterprise SaaS and Fintech in the US and Latin America. Alex has also advised numerous companies in a board capacity, guiding them through M&A, strategy, fundraising efforts, and 2+ successful exits. Alex has also had key roles in launching 2 institutional venture funds which had over $350M in AUM. Prior to his investing roles, Alex was an investment banker at Deutsche Bank in New York, where he worked on $30B+ of M&A and financing transactions, including cross-border deals. Originally from Brazil, Alex holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering (with a focus on Machine Learning) from Columbia University and a B.A. in Economics from Claremont McKenna College. In his free time, Alex enjoys cooking and engaging in sports like basketball, padle/pickleball, and most recently, surfing.

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. For fun, Jill is researching and writing a fictionalized biography series about The Hon. Richard Keppel Craven (1779-1851) and Sir William Gell (1777-1836).​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​