| 词条 | Matthew Le Merle |
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| name = Matthew C. Le Merle | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|1|18|mf=y}} | birth_place = London, England | residence = Tiburon, California | death_place = | nationality = USA and UK | other_names = |title = Managing Partner of Fifth Era and Keiretsu Capital | alma_mater = Oxford University (MA, Double First) Stanford University Graduate School of Business (MBA) | occupation = Investor and Advisor }} Matthew Le Merle (born January 18, 1962) is a superangel investor, board director, author, and advisor to leading companies including Alphabet, Google, PayPal, Shanshan and Talkweb. He is managing partner at Fifth Era and Keiretsu Capital based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The latter is the most active early stage venture investor in the US. He is an adjunct faculty member at Singularity University.[1] Early life and education{{BLP unsourced section|date=February 2018}}Le Merle was born in Surbiton before moving to Blackheath where he grew up. He attended Brooklands Primary School, Blackheath and Eltham College. His first job was as a paper delivery boy in South East London. Early summer jobs included soldering printed circuit boards, selling men's suits and mattresses at Harrods of London and working as a silver service waiter across the banqueting halls and five star hotels of London. Le Merle was awarded an open scholarship to attend Christ Church, Oxford University where he took a double first in Geography. He also holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business CareerIn 1980 he was made a management trainee at National Westminster Bank. On graduation from Oxford, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc. in New York and London. While with McKinsey, he was a member of the Firm's Consumer, Retail, Corporate Finance and Salesforce Effectiveness practices. In 1986 McKinsey sponsored Le Merle to attend Stanford Graduate School of Business where he graduated with an MBA. While at Stanford, Le Merle acquired his pilot's license and worked with BT Capital (leveraged buyouts) in New York, and Bankers Trust Venture Capital in London. From 1992 to 1999 Le Merle was a consultant at AT Kearney a global management consulting firm. Beginning as a founding member of the firm's Financial Institutions Group in New York, he joined the San Francisco office in 1994 where he served as Western U.S. Practice Leader until his departure from the firm in 1999. As consultant Le Merle advised several of the largest companies in the world on issues of strategy, operations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, alliances and turnarounds. Between 1999 and 2000 Le Merle was a senior executive at Gap, Inc. with responsibilities that included worldwide strategy, and corporate development for each of Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic. He was also SVP Gap Global Marketing. Between 2002 and 2006 Le Merle served as a general partner and Monitor venture partner of Monitor Group, a global consulting firm and merchant bank located in San Francisco. He was also a partner at Booz & Company between 2009 and 2012. Le Merle is chairman of the US advisory boards of Shanshan Group and Talkweb, two of China's largest companies and is a board director or advisory board director at private companies, including 1World Online, ApplePie Capital, Concept Art House, Evertold, Holor Media, and Perkville. He was formerly Chairman of Telltale Games and a board director of Gap, Gap International and Old Navy internal boards, UK listed company Zattikka and LesConcierges, Mindfuse and Soundwave. He is an active angel investor and a member of The Band of Angels [2] and Keiretsu Forum.[3] Digital economy and innovationDuring the 1990s Le Merle was a director of the San Francisco Partnership that successfully worked to have Mission Bay established as a leading Biotechnology center for San Francisco. in 1999 to 2001 he was an Advisor to the City of San Francisco including working on the formation of the MultiMedia Industry strategy for the City. Between 2002 and 2006 Le Merle was an advisor to the State of California[4] on the future development of the Biotechnology Industry in the state and in each of the four biotechnology clusters in the State: San Diego, Southern California, Sacramento and the Bay Area [5][6] and to Shanghai Municipality as the city developed its new Life Sciences Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park. From 2006 and 2008 Le Merle was Co-President of Keiretsu Forum SF/NB (the world's largest angel investor network) [7] in which capacity he was invited in 2007 to speak to representatives of the provinces of China in the Great Hall of the People at Tiananmen Square on the topics of innovation and angel investing. Le Merle is also a frequent speaker on innovation, the Digital Economy, interactive media and entertainment and has been a top ranked speaker at GDC in San Francisco [8][9] and China. Since 2006 Le Merle has also been a frequent publisher and speaker on the topic of how prospective Internet regulation may negatively impact innovation and growth in the Digital Economy. He has been invited by the governments of Korea, India, Indonesia, Israel, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, UAE and USA among others to provide expert input and advice on how to stimulate clusters of innovation and digital economy growth. Honors and PositionsLe Merle is an adjunct faculty member at Singularity University.[10] He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). [11] Works
Personal lifeLe Merle resides in Tiburon, California with his wife Alison Davis. They have five children [14] [15] References1. ^[https://su.org/about/faculty/matthew-c-le-merle/ Singularity Faculty - Matthew Le Merle ] {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Merle, Matthew}}2. ^[https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2015/07/keiretsu-capital-angel-investing-fund-angellist.html Keiretsu Capital Closes First Fund ] 3. ^{{cite web|author=triplepoint |url=http://www.vimeo.com/3750270 |title=TriplePoint Speaker Series: Matthew Le Merle, Chairman of Mindfuse on Vimeo |publisher=Vimeo.com |date=2009-03-18 |accessdate=2010-01-23}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.socalbio.org/pdfs/California_Life_Sciences.pdf |title=California Life Sciences |publisher= |date= |accessdate=2010-01-23}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.compete.monitor.com/App_Themes/MRCCorpSite_v1/DownloadFiles/SFBayAreaLifeSciCluster.pdf|title=/www.compete.monitor.com}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/04/BU145318.DTL&type=business |title=Blueprint for biotech / Bay Area leaders ponder ways to keep, grow industry here |publisher=Sfgate.com |date=2002-12-04 |accessdate=2010-01-23 | first=Bernadette | last=Tansey}} 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.keiretsuforum.com/frontend/ANGEL%20NETWORKS.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-01-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922052353/http://keiretsuforum.com/frontend/ANGEL%20NETWORKS.pdf |archivedate=2010-09-22 |df= }} 8. ^{{cite news|author=Tameka Kee |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/26/paidcontent/main4893765.shtml |title=@ GDC: Indie Game Studios Can Still Attract Early Stage Funding |publisher=CBS News |date=2009-03-26 |accessdate=2010-01-23}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gdcvault.com/showConference.php?category=free&conference=134&sort_by=type |title=GDC 07 |publisher=GDC Vault |date= |accessdate=2010-01-23}} 10. ^[https://su.org/about/faculty/matthew-c-le-merle/ Singularity Faculty - Matthew Le Merle ] 11. ^[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Fellows_of_the_Royal_Geographical_Society&pagefrom=Ganeri%2C+Anita%0AAnita+Ganeri#mw-pages Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society ] 12. ^Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era 13. ^[https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/alumni/news/books/build-your-fortune-fifth-era-how-angel-investors-vcs-entrepreneurs-prosper Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era ] 14. ^Modern Day Chateau 15. ^[https://sf.curbed.com/2015/8/27/9926396/there-was-actual-real-estate-porn-on-this-weeks-million-dollar Million Dollar Listing, SF ] 17 : 1962 births|Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society|Private equity and venture capital investors|Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni|Alumni of the University of Oxford|Living people|McKinsey & Company people|People from Tiburon, California|Silicon Valley people|People from San Francisco|Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford|British venture capitalists|21st-century American businesspeople|American computer businesspeople|American corporate directors|American investors|Angel investors |
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