Brook Byers
Brook Byers (born August 2, 1945,
Early life and education
Raised in
Career
Brook Byers has been a venture capital investor since 1972. He has been closely involved with more than fifty new technology based ventures, over half of which have already become public companies. He formed the first Life Sciences practice group in the venture capital profession in 1984 and led KPCB to become a top tier venture capital firm in the medical, healthcare, and biotechnology sectors. KPCB has invested in and helped build over 110 Life Sciences companies which have already developed hundreds of products to treat major underserved medical needs for millions of patients.[2][3]
Activity in biotechnology
Byers was the founding president and then chairman, of four biotechnology companies which were incubated in KPCB's offices and went on to become public companies with an aggregate market value over $8 Billion. He is often featured on the
Other positions
Byers is currently a board member of the University of California at San Francisco Medical Foundation, the New Schools Foundation,[6] Stanford's Bio-X Advisory Council and the Stanford Eye Council. He was co-chair of the five-year, $1.4 billion, UCSF Capital Campaign. In 2007, he was awarded the "UCSF Medal" as their honorary degree equivalent.[7] In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8] In 2009, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Venture Capital Association.
Byers was president and a director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and is a contributing author of the book Guide to Venture Capital. He is currently a board member of the
He was formerly a director of the Entrepreneurs Foundation, the California Healthcare Institute, the
Byers is also a member of the Environmental Defense Fund.[9]
References
- ^ Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley (UCB) – BROOK BYERS: BIOTECHNOLOGY VENTURE CAPITALIST, 1970–2006
- ^ KPCB Firm Web Page "KPCB – Team". Archived from the original on July 24, 2010. Retrieved April 16, 2010.
- ^ Brook H. Byers Profile, Forbes.com (Accessed October 28, 2015, via Wayback Machine)
- ^ XDx Company Info Archived February 9, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, accessed November 14, 2007
- ^ Personalized Medicine Website "Speakers". Archived from the original on April 18, 2010. Retrieved April 16, 2010.
- ^ "Brook Byers | NewSchools Venture Fund". Archived from the original on September 14, 2010. Retrieved April 16, 2010.
- ^ UCSF Honorary Degree Webpage. Accessed April 16, 2010. "Chancellor to Award UCSF Medals to Four Leaderson May 3 – UCSF Today". Archived from the original on June 15, 2010. Retrieved April 16, 2010.
- ^ "AAAS – the World's Largest General Scientific Society". Archived from the original on January 15, 2014. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ^ "National Council". www.edf.org.
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