Randy Komisar. Randy Komisar joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2005 and focuses on the firm’s digital and greentech practices.
Earlier in his career, he was a co-founder of Claris Corp., served as CEO for LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics, and acted as a “virtual CEO” for such companies as WebTV and GlobalGiving. Randy also served as CFO of GO Corp. and as senior counsel for Apple Computer, following a private practice in technology law. Randy is a founding director of TiVo and serves on the advisory board of Roadtrip Nation, as well as on the global advisory board for the University of California, Santa Barbara, Institute for Energy Efficiency.
He is a lecturer on entrepreneurship at Stanford University and the author of the best-selling book The Monk and the Riddle, as well as several articles on leadership and entrepreneurship. He is also the co-author of Getting to Plan B, a book on managing innovation. Recent Milestones Investments Videos Sources. Wen Hsieh. Wen Hsieh joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in February 2006.
His focus areas of investment include Greentech, applications and products enabled by novel materials, and semiconductor technologies. Prior to KPCB, Wen was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co San Francisco and a leader of McKinseys Asia Semiconductor Practice. During his 5 years at McKinsey, Wenâs primary focus was on serving leading companies across the global semiconductor value chain. His clients included EDA companies, design houses, wafer fab equipment vendors, automated test equipment vendors, test solution providers, wafer foundries, logic & memory IDMs, PC/server OEMs and component distributors. At McKinsey, Wens secondary focus was on serving small companies in the North America biopharma sector. Before McKinsey, Wen founded OnChip Technologies, a startup developing MEMS microfluidic-based protein chips.
Wen earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. Recent Milestones Videos Sources. Bing Gordon. William “Bing” Gordon is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers since 2008.
At KPCB, he leads on the sFund, the investment initiative to fund and build applications and services that deliver on the promise of the social web. The sFund, launched in late 2010 with strategic partners Amazon, Facebook, Zynga, Comcast, Liberty Media and Allen & Co, has made 14 investments to date, including 4 seeds. Bing is the Board Director of Mevio. He was also a founding Director at Ngmoco (acquired by DeNA 2010) and Audible (acquired by Amazon 2008).
John Denniston. John Denniston is a Partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. At KPCB, John has worked with a wide variety of portfolio companies, with a primary emphasis on the Greentech industry. John was a member of the KPCB Partner team that many years ago conceptualized and launched KPCB's Greentech investment initiative. Since then, KPCB has been an active investor in the Greentech field, having invested in a large number of start-up companies across a wide variety of sectors. He is actively involved in Greentech public policy issues, having testified before several Congressional committees. John serves on the Board of Advisors of the National Renewable Energy Labs. Brook Byers. Brook Byers is the Board Director of Foundation Medicine Inc. He 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 premier 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. 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 with an aggregate market value over $8 Billion. John Doerr. John Doerr is a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Since joining KPCB in 1980, John and his partners have backed some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, including Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt of Google; Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Scott Cook and Bill Campbell of Intuit; and Mark Pincus of Zynga. John’s passion is helping entrepreneurs create the “Next Big Thing” in mobile and social networks, greentech innovation, education and economic development. Ventures sponsored by John have created more than 200,000 new jobs. John serves on boards in the areas of Internet technologies and greentech, including Amyris, Bloom Energy, Coursera, Essence Healthcare, Flipboard, FloDesign Wind Turbines, Google, iControl, mCube, Quantumscape, Renmatix, Upthere and Zynga. He also led KPCB’s investment in Twitter.
John’s technology career began in 1974 at Intel, just as the chipmaker was inventing the groundbreaking 8080 microprocessor. Recent Milestones Investments Videos Sources.