Kaye Foster

Kaye Foster is currently an independent consultant, working with CEOs and leadership teams focusing on business transformations, talent management strategy, and Human Resources strategy development and implementation. She serves as a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In her prior role as the Chief HR Officer for Onyx Pharmaceuticals, in partnership with the CEO and Strategy Officer, she supported the development and execution of the company’s enterprise strategy and multi-year business plan.

Kaye is a guest lecturer at Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford Health Care, the Board of Directors of Valley Care, and was appointed to the Board of Directors of Agios Pharmaceuticals, a leader in the fields of cancer metabolism and rare genetic disorders of metabolism. She recently joined the Board of Directors of Grail Inc, a biotech company whose mission is “to detect cancer early, when it can be cured”. Her philanthropic commitments are reflected in her service as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Glide Memorial Foundation, and a trustee of the Board of Spelman College in Atlanta.

Kaye joined Onyx from Johnson & Johnson where she served as Vice President of Global Human Resources and a member of the Executive Committee. In that role, she led the global Human Resources organization, and also served as a member of the Management Compensation Committee and the Pension Committee, partnering with the chair of the Compensation Committee of the Johnson & Johnson outside Board of Directors. Prior to Johnson & Johnson, she held several Human Resources executive positions with Pfizer Inc. supporting its pharmaceutical businesses in Japan, Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Latin America, and she led the integration of both the Warner-Lambert and Pharmacia mergers for these countries.

Kaye received her undergraduate degree from the City University of New York, Baruch College, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University in New York City.