BASF Venture Capital GmbH
Neal Okarter
As mankind, we are facing many challenges, from climate change to loss of arable farmland to a changing landscape in mobility, industrial manufacturing, human health and on and on. At BASF Venture Capital, I get to speak to founders who are innovating to address these challenges and investors who support them, on a near daily basis”.
Neal joined BASF Venture Capital as an Investment Manager in 2021. He lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. He combines his scientific background with a broad experience as a management consultant.
Neal spent roughly ten years as a management consultant, with more than six of those years with BASF Management Consulting, the internal management consultancy of the BASF Group. At BASF Management Consulting, Neal led several projects related to Marketing & Sales, Growth & Innovation, Transformational Change, Organizational Restructuring, and Mergers & Acquisition (Post-Merger Integration & Carve Out).
Neal earned his Bachelor of Science in Nutrition, Food, and Agriculture, and PhD in Molecular Nutrition and Cell Biology from Cornell University, and his MBA from Rutgers Business School.
A passionate golfer, Neal can often be found on both the golf course and the driving range.