Brook Byers

Brook Byers is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the brother of Stanford University Professor Tom Byers.

He is currently on the Board of Directors of nine companies, most recently joining OptiMedica,CardioDX, Genomic Health Incorporated, Five Prime Therapeutics, Pacific Biosciences, Inc. and XDx, Inc. [ [http://www.xdx.com/corp/directors.htm XDx Company Info] , accessed November 14, 2007] Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of Idec Pharmaceuticals (Chairman), Athena Neurosciences (Chairman), Signal Pharmaceuticals, Arris Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacopeia, Ligand Pharmaceuticals (Chairman), Hybritech (Chairman), Genprobe, Nanogen, and others.

Brook 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 University of California at San Francisco Medical Foundation, the California Healthcare Institute, the NewSchools Venture Fund, Stanford’s Bio-X Advisory Council, the Stanford Eye Council and TechNet. He is Co-Chair of the UCSF Capital Campaign.

He was formerly a Director of the Entrepreneurs Foundation, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, UCSF's That Man May See Vision Research Foundation (Chairman) and the Georgia Tech Advisory Board.

Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1968 from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Stanford University.

Brook will attend Bohemian Grove 2008, camping with the Hill Billies. [ [http://infowars.net/articles/july2008/210708Grove.htm 2008 Bohemian Grove Guest List] , accessed July 22, 2008]

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External links

* [http://kpcb.com/team/index.php?Brook%20Byers KPCB: Brook Byers]
* [http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?author=167 Bio at Stanford University's Technology Ventures Program]