For more than 20 years, the Bell Mason Group has worked with Global 1000 corporations, providing corporate venturing methodologies, tools, techniques and support that accelerate corporate innovation and venturing programs - sustaining innovation with reduced risk through economic down cycles, management changes and strategic redirection.

BMG serves Corporate Venturing, Development, Research and Strategy executives in large corporations that need to establish and ensure the ongoing relevance of the innovation initiatives that have become critical to sustaining growth.

Using the proven Bell Mason Framework and tools for corporate innovation management and venture development, BMG senior consultants guide strategy, planning and metrics development for a range of innovation programs, including internal incubation, licensing, corporate venture capital, strategic alliances, and corporate development/M&A.

Established by Gordon Bell and Heidi Mason over twenty years ago, the team's original mission was to create an objective framework that would establish success metrics for evaluating Silicon Valley startup ventures. After more than a decade of advancing the methodology and developing additional tools and services, Mason, with Tim Rohner, authored the seminal book on corporate venture development. 'The Venture Imperative' (Harvard, 2002) which explored the unique challenges and opportunities faced by corporations investing in innovation and venturing, and defined best practices and key success factors across a broad spectrum of technologies and organization types.

The BMG team of senior practitioners, who bring operational experience in both the corporate and the startup worlds, is passionate about partnering with forward-thinking corporate executives to meet the challenge of sustainable growth through innovation and venturing.

Publications from the BMG Team