Drew Clark
Drew Clark is director of strategy, emerging markets, IBM Venture Capital Group and is responsible for driving external innovation into IBM business units and identifying and developing new business opportunities. A 20-year IBM veteran, Clark has held a variety of key positions in software development and technology and emerging-business development and strategy. Drew has been awarded two patents in software testing and Artificial Intelligence, holds a BS in physics from Western Carolina University and has completed coursework toward a PhD in plasma physics at University of Texas at Austin.
Recent Posts
VC activity in 2008
[Editor’s note: This is an Op-Ed piece by Drew Clark, Director of Strategy and co-founder of IBM's Venture Capital Group. Over the past few weeks, we've posted 2008 predictions from entrepreneur Bernard Moon and VCs Baris Karadogan and Jeremy Liew (you can find those stories here, here and here, respectively). We want to finish out the picture with a view from a big corporate investor.]
Throughout the course of the year, IBM’s Venture Capital Group meets… Continue Reading
Social enterpreneurship can make money in the developing world
The next billion users of the net, many of whom will reside in regions of the developing world, represent an incredible business opportunity for a public-private partnership. This can become a market-driven ecosystem where all parties prosper. There is a fortune to be found at the “base of the pyramid.”
One area ripe for targeting is the need for content, specifically localized content, such as “what will the weather be like, next week where I… Continue Reading