Brook Byers
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Brook Byers is the brother of Tom Byers, and is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. Raised in Atlanta, he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1968 from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Stanford University.
Byers has been a venture capital investor since 1972. He has been closely involved with more than forty new technology based ventures, over half of which have already become public companies.
Brook 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.
He is currently on the Board of Directors of eight companies, most recently joining CardioDX, Genomic Health Incorporated, Five Prime Therapeutics, Pacific Biosciences, Inc. and XDx, Inc.
He was formerly a Director 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 (2006) a Board member of the University of California at San Francisco Medical Foundation, the California Healthcare Institute, the New Schools Foundation, Stanford’s Bio-X Advisory Council, the Stanford Eye Council and TechNet.
He was formerly a Director of the Entrepreneurs Foundation, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, That Man May See (UCSF) Vision Research Foundation (Chairman) and the Georgia Tech Advisory Board.
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