GMA Masterclass: Dene Rogers – Corporate VC, The Newest Form of Capitalism; Why and How it will Usurp Traditional VC and PE Investors

GMA Masterclass: Dene Rogers – Corporate VC, The Newest Form of Capitalism; Why and How it will Usurp Traditional VC and PE Investors

Dene Rogers is an entrepreneur and advisor to tech startups companies and has lived overseas for the past 30 years in Japan, the UK, Canada, and the USA.

He is co-founder of several startups including:
1) Buildxact, a SaaS platform that is now global and rapidly growing
2) Biosenta, a nanotech company that developed a nano-technoartcile to replace carcinogenic chemicals to inhibit microbe growth that is based in Toronto that is now a public company, and
3) ConfirmedHealth, an AI-based medical company that enables hypertension, and other health conditions, to be monitored in real time.

As an advisor, he is helping the Saudi Arabian government launch approximately 50 startups over the next 5 years. This initiative has a $700 billion budget and involves building three new cities in north-west Arabia.

Early in Dene’s career he worked in Tokyo as an engineer on projects in the Middle East, China and Papua New Guinea. After business school, Dene became CEO of several corporations, the largest had revenues in excess of $20 billion and employed more than 140,000 people.

Other roles Dene has held include Senior Vice President of Business Development at GE Capital with global responsibilities, and Senior Vice President at Starwood Hotels responsible for a range of corporate functions.

Dene graduated from Curtin with a Bachelor of Engineering, from Oxford University with a Master of Science by research, and from Yale University with a MBA.

Dene has three children and lives in San Francisco. He is a keen cyclist and has represented Australia several times.