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Health Ventures - Cynthia Doerr... essexwoodlands.com | John W. Collins, M.D. - Lexington Clinic Medical lexingtonclinic.com |
L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in Silicon Valley. In February, 2009, Doerr was appointed as a member to the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the president and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America's economic downturn [1].
[edit] Early lifeDoerr is one of five children. Thomas Doerr is his brother. He obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976. [edit] CareerDoerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor. He eventually became one of Intel's most successful salespeople. He also holds several patents for memory devices. He joined Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers in 1980, and since then, has directed venture capital funding to some of the most successful technology companies in the world including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, drugstore.com, Amazon.com, Intuit, and Google, as well as Friendster, Go, and others. These ventures have created an estimated 150,000 jobs. He currently serves on the boards of public companies Google, Amazon, and on the boards of private ventures Amyris Biotech, Bloom Energy, iControl Networks, Essence Health, Flo-Design, Miasole, M2Z Networks, V Vehicle and Spatial Photonics. Doerr co-founded and serves on the board of the New Schools Venture Fund, an education reform and charter public schools fund. And on TechNet, a policy network of high tech CEOs advocating education and litigation reform, and policies for the innovation economy. Doerr co-chaired California's Proposition 39 which lowered the threshold to approved school bonds, and Proposition 71 which created $3 billion funding for California research into stem cell therapies. He serves on the board of Bono's ONE campaign to fight global poverty, particularly disease in Africa. His success in venture capital has garnered national attention; he has been and is currently listed on Forbes Magazine's exclusive "Midas List" and is widely regarded as one of the top technology venture capitalists in the world. Today, Doerr remains one of Silicon Valley's most influential figures. Forbes magazine estimates his net worth to be well over $1 billion. Doerr is a high profile supporter of the Democratic Party in Silicon Valley. Through the TechNet (lobbying organization) he helped found, he has devoted much time and money towards impacting legislation beneficial to the technology industry. Doerr advocates innovation in clean energy technologies to combat climate crisis, and has written and testified on the topic. In a 2007 TED conference he choked up using his daughter's remarks "your generation created this problem, you better fix it" as a call to fight global warming [1]. In 2008 he announced with Steve Jobs the Kleiner Perkins $100 million iFund, declaring the iPhone the "next PC." [edit] Personal lifeDoerr is married to Ann Howland Doerr, with two children, and lives in Woodside, California. [edit] Recognition[edit] AwardsIn 2009, Doerr was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences[2] [3] [4]. [edit] References
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