Thoughts on Private Equity Turnarounds and Technology
Topics: eCommerce Entrepreneurial Tech
The Center for Private Equity, Career Development Office and the CDS are pleased to announce an executive lunch with Blair LaCorte T’90, CEO of XOJET.
Blair LaCorte joined XOJET as president in 2009 and was named interim chief executive officer in 2010. In 2011, Mr. LaCorte became the full-time chief executive officer. He is also a member of the company’s board of directors. Mr. LaCorte is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of XOJET. Mr. LaCorte also serves as senior advisor at TPG, a leading global private investment firm with over $45 billion of capital under management. Prior to TPG, he was the executive vice president of Business Development and Marketing at Savi Technology, a private, venture backed network solutions provider. Savi is a world leader in developing RFID technologies to track and manage assets throughout the global supply chain. Blair founded Savi’s Network Services Business and created the Smart and Secure Trade Lanes (SST) initiative, the largest industry sponsored global container tracking and security network. Savi was sold to Lockheed Martin.
Prior to Savi, Blair was senior vice president of Strategy and E-commerce at VerticalNet. He was also an EIR at Internet Capital Group, which became one of the first publicly traded venture funds. Prior to that he was President of CADIS, a private venture backed Software Company focused on electronic publishing and procurement in the B2B markets, and held various executive positions at AutoDesk, the largest CAD and visualization Software Company.
Blair received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, and holds an FMP degree from General Electric and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Blair has been honored with numerous industry awards, including being named “Top Ten Business Marketers” by Business Marketing and Advertising Age. Blair sits on the Board of the Graduate Business Foundation as well as the MBA Board at Dartmouth College.
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