Patrick McGill has spent his career helping big companies like Best Buy, Canon, Volkswagen, DoCoMo, and Dentsu set up their own venture and partnership programs, drawing on earlier experience leading corporate development at VeriFone during its $1.2 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard and advising Pandora in its early days. His path to venture investing was unusual too—he trained as an airport manager with British Airways and lived in more than a dozen countries before building corporate venture structures for firms like E12 and Storm Ventures.