John Doerr

John is an engineer, acclaimed venture capitalist, and the chairman of Kleiner Perkins. For more than 38 years, John has served entrepreneurs with ingenuity and optimism, bringing ideas worth spreading to disruptive leaders and teams.

John was an original investor and board member at Google and Amazon, helping to create over 650,000 jobs and the world’s second and third most valuable companies. He’s passionate about helping entrepreneurs reimagine the future, from health care transformation to machine learning.

John serves on the boards of Alphabet/Google, Amyris and Bloom Energy, as well as private ventures including health care leaders Lumeris and Nuna.

Outside of Kleiner Perkins, John works with social entrepreneurs for change in public education, the climate crisis, and global poverty. These include the Climate Reality Project and ONE.org. He serves on the board of the Obama Foundation

John earned degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University and business from Harvard and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.