Duyerr John

John Duyerr

John Doerr is a venture capitalist, the partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers investment company. The former seller of Intel John Doerr was called the king of a venture capital of Silicon Valley for 27 years. He was engaged in investments in a row of such companies as Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com and Google. Jeff Bizos somehow called Doerr by "the center of gravity of the Internet". Successful performance of the investor John Doerr draws attention of society long ago. From time to time the capitalist appears on the log pages "Forbes" and other popular editions. Today Doerr is considered one of the leading venture investors of the world.

Biography and career

Was born on June 29 the 1951st year in St. Louis, Missouri (USA). Originally it studied at the Rice University upon termination of which it was awarded the bachelor's degrees. After - future venture investor entered Harvard University and having ended it in 1976, received degree of MVA.

The professional career of the investor John Duyerr began in 1974 when he began to cooperate with Intel company. In the 1980th year came to company Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers and since then was engaged in distribution of a venture capital, financing the essential number of the large successful companies, including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, Intuit, Google, Friendster. Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers is located in the Kremneniyevy valley. The name of financial institution is directly connected with names of its founders - Eugene Kleiner, Tom Perkins, Frank J. Kofield (Frank J. Caufield) and Brook Byers. The company was created in the 1972nd year and since then became one of the noticeable and efficient organizations in the venture industry.

Now Duyerr is a member of Boards of Directors of Google, Amazon.com, Intuit, Homestore, Sun Microsystems and also consists in boards of a number of private companies - Zazzle, Good Technology, Miasole, Purkinje, Segway Inc. and other.

Private life

John Duyerr is married to Ann Holand Duyerr and California (USA) lives with two children in Vudsayda,

Interesting Facts

• In 2009 Duyer was called the member of Amerkansky academy of Sciences and arts.

• In February, 2009 John Duyer became the member of "The Presidential Council on an economic recovery" and actually is konsultaty administrations in boba questions with effects of a world financial crisis.