brook byers is a senior partner at kleiner perkins caufield & byers and the brother of stanford university professor tom byers and atlanta, georgia engineering entrepreneur ken byers. ==early life and education== raised in atlanta, georgia, byers earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1968 from georgia tech and an mba from stanford university. ==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.kpcb firm web page http://www.kpcb.com/team/byershttp://people.forbes.com/profile/brook-h-byers/36423 ===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 forbes midas list and is currently on the board of directors of ten companies; cardiodx, crescendo bioscience, inc., genomic health incorporated, five prime therapeutics, optimedica, hx diagnostics, pacific biosciences, inc., tethys, veracyte, inc. and xdx, inc.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. these companies have pioneered the medical use of molecular biology, monoclonal antibodies, personalized medicine, molecular diagnostics and genomics.personalized medicine website http://www.pmwc2010.com/speakers.php ===other positions=== byers is currently a board member of the university of california at san francisco medical foundation, the new schools foundation,http://www.newschools.org/about/people/board/brook-byers stanfordâs 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 âucsf medalâ as their honorary degree equivalent.ucsf honorary degree webpage. accessed 4/16/2010. http://today.ucsf.edu/stories/chancellor-to-award-ucsf-medals-to-four-leaderson-may-3/ in 2008, he was elected a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences.http://php.aaas.o
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