2023年6月19日

Powerlist 2023: Shereen El Zarkani 2023年6月19日•GCV記者Shereen El Zarkani馬士基增長的管理合夥人,是一個100年的領先企業冒險在我們今年Powerlist專業人士。當時Powerlist 2023編譯Shereen El Zarkani馬士基增長的管理合夥人,AP穆勒馬士基的企業風險部門,一個是世界上最大的集裝箱公司。她從單位辭職的時候去出版社。然而,我們一直El Zarkani馬士基這個列表的增長,反映出強烈的單位也承認2022年的特定方法,El Zarkani投資團隊。雖然許多單位是由人投資的背景,她帶來了營銷經驗,業務發展和戰略作用,以及銷售和一個不同的視角。“我有與人的經驗和與客戶的問題,我認為這個想法是也帶來客戶的商業知識和理解景觀為我們所做的,”厄爾Zarkani說。單位取得了30多個投資自2017年成立以來,目前管理著大約500美元,去年關閉了第二個風險基金和添加一個單獨的配置綠色燃料的投資。也為其母公司經營風險的客戶服務,尋找創業公司與產品或服務,可以幫助解決一個問題一個業務單位可能會有。物流行業正在經曆一段時間的快速調整後的冠狀病毒大流行,這顯示了全球供應鏈的脆弱性。馬士基增長協助其母公司從一個容器專家進入更現代和靈活。 “We are in the midst of a very intense transformation, from being just a shipping line moving stuff in containers to an end-to- end integrated logistics company powered by technology,” says El Zarkani. “We are very deliberate in that we want to do it with technology and not by throwing armies of people at it, as is typically done in our industry. It is really about bringing that commercial knowledge and understanding and helping the startups navigate Maersk, so we can accelerate our own transformation, as well as unlocking growth for the companies “The pandemic showed what we already knew, but maybe the rest of the world was not aware of: how fragmented and fragile supply chains are. Everybody suffered in the past couple of years in some shape or form and we believe the underlying cause is a lack of technology.” In practice, that means Maersk Growth funds everything from Pactum, which is a developer of software that uses AI to negotiate contracts, to autonomous yard truck developer Isee and Afresh, the creator of an inventory software platform that helps grocery retailers reduce waste. All three were part of a dozen investments disclosed last year. “We are very excited,” says El Zarkani. “We think there are a number of cool emerging trends that are coming and, the current economic situation notwithstanding, it is really important to realise the fundamental issues with the supply chain did not go away. People just stopped buying and spending as much.” El Zarkani took care to build a team with a lot of commercial experience that can be passed on to portfolio companies. Maersk Growth holds enterprise selling workshops, where they help startups with their go-to- market strategy. El Zarkani’s background in running a large sales operation meant she knew startups’ potential customers by name, which stakeholders they needed to work with and how to navigate with each one of them. El Zarkani says that working in corporate venturing had meant making some adjustments in leadership style. “From a leadership perspective, I was used to leading fairly large teams,” she says. “We had 3,000 salespeople and now it is a team of about 25. We are a lot more hands-on and we work at multiple levels, so I needed to adjust and reinvent the way I lead. “It is really about bringing that commercial knowledge and understanding and helping the startups navigate Maersk, so we can accelerate our own transformation, as well as unlocking growth for the companies.”