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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
VMware Cloud allows users to run, manage, connect and secure an entire portfolio on any cloud to any device.
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
Software for the Intelligent Edge
Education
Dipl. Ing.
1993 - 1996
Vordiplom
1991 - 1993