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Alexander Helmke

Managing Director at T.Capital

Hamburg, Hamburg

Overview 

Alexander Helmke is the Managing Director at T.Capital in Hamburg, Hamburg, with a background in strategic partnerships, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate development. With a robust career history including roles at VMware and Wind River, he brings expertise in enterprise software, cloud computing, and business strategy to his current position. Highlights of Alexander's career include his senior roles at VMware, where he led strategy and corporate development initiatives, and his current position as Managing Director at T.Capital, focusing on Series B investments in enterprise applications and cloud infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director, Head of Corporate Strategy and Corporate Venture Capital

    2025 - Current

    Seasoned corporate strategy executive and corporate venture capital investor. 25+ years experience at industry leading, multinational corporations in the US and in Europe. Currently taking some time off for the first time in my life but open to interesting opportunities.

  • Managing Director

    2023 - 2025

    Leading Deutsche Telekom’s Corporate Venture Capital strategic investment program including management of DT's portfolio of minority and majority interests

  • Managing Director

    2021 - 2025

    Leading Deutsche Telekom’s Corporate Venture Capital strategic investment program including management of DT's portfolio of minority and majority interests

  • Sr. Director, Strategy and Corporate Development

    2017 - 2021

    Managing VMware’s CVC investment targets (IT & cloud infra, application platforms) in alignment with corporate strategy priorities Developing start-ups towards optimal business alignment with VMware (M&A targets), managing full investment lifecycle, portfolio, board positions, 30+ deals (investments and M&A) Contributing to VMware’s growth from $1B to $12B 2021

  • Director, Strategy and Corporate Development

    2012 - 2017

    M&A and venture investments in coordination with strategic business initiatives across all VMware BUs and technologies; deal sourcing, structuring, transactions, value creation, portfolio mgmt., 20+ deals

  • Sr. Corporate Strategy and Development Manager

    2010 - 2012

    Consulting VMware CEO and BUs on major strategic business opportunities, strategy recommendations, M&A proposals. Executing the proposed strategy by means of M&A, minority investments and commercial engagements with global partners

  • Alliance Line Manager

    2008 - 2009

    Instrumental in building VMware's IHV Alliances organization, creation of partner and developer programs, responsible for the company's relationships with all semiconductor vendors

  • Sr. Business Development Manager

    2006 - 2007

    Business Development for VMware's partner programs, driving ecosystem adoption of the VMware platform

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  • Sr. Industry Marketing Manager

    2005 - 2006

    Responsible for Wind River's product and marketing strategy targeting the network infrastructure industry

  • Sr. Product Manager, Network Infrastructure

    1999 - 2005

    Sr. Product Manager for Wind River's various lines of networking technologies and protocols including Platforms for Network Equipment, VxWorks Edition and Linux Edition

  • Regional Sales Account Manager

    1997 - 1999

    Exceeding sales quota every year, opening and managing new sales office in Northern Germany, managing two sales engineers

  • Field Application Engineer

    1996 - 1997

    Technical Sales Manager, pre- and post-sales support, extensive customer facing experience, presentations, demos, on-site installations, various sales and presentation trainings, speaking engagements at seminars, conferences and trade-shows

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