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<\/span><\/p>\n As chief strategy officer of\u00a0Yahoo\u2019s European unit Coppel oversaw $5 billion of acquisitions, including the $1 billion investment in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce site.<\/p>\n On joining Virgin Green, Coppell said:<\/p>\n [Virgin Green] It is the perfect platform for me to leverage my investment and operating experience in technology, media and communications to identify and manage attractive investment opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Coppel stepped down from Yahoo! in December 2008. Since leaving he’s joined a number of corporate board. Last fall he joined the board of environmental intelligence firm Avoiding Mass Extinctions Engine (AMEE), reports PaidContent.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Image: PaidContent.org<\/p>\n Yahoo! Europe former Managing Director Toby Coppel is joining\u00a0Richard Branson’s cleantech-focused private equity fund Virgin Green Fund as a partner in London. The move is yet another indication of how straight technologists are going green and heading to cleantech ventures. As chief strategy officer of\u00a0Yahoo\u2019s European unit Coppel oversaw $5 billion of acquisitions, including the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Picture-1.png\" "\\"Picture")
<\/a>Yahoo! Europe former Managing Director Toby Coppel is joining\u00a0Richard Branson’s cleantech-focused private equity fund Virgin Green Fund as a partner in London. The move is yet another indication of how straight technologists are going green<\/a> and heading to cleantech ventures.<\/p>\n\n
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