James Breyer

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Mr. James Breyer is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Breyer Capital. Mr. Breyer serves as a Board Member at MSD Acquisition. He serves as Board Member at Blackstone. He served as a Board Member at Atropos Health. He serves as Board Member at Blackstone. He is a Co-Owner of the Boston Celtics. He serves as an Investment Advisory Board Member at Xfund. He serves as an Advisor at Vida. He is a Co-Founder and Board Member of EDO and a Board Member of GNL Québec. He served as a Board Member at UM and Wickr. He previously served as Co-Chairman at IDG Capital. He has been an investor in over 40 consumer internet/technology companies that have completed successful public offerings or mergers, including Facebook, Etsy, Legendary, Datalogix, and Marvel Entertainment. As a lead investor and/or board member, he has assisted teams at over a dozen companies in complete IPOs. Several of his investments have returned to investors over 100 times their cost and over a dozen more have returned over 25 times cost. Over the past several years, he has developed a deep personal and investment interest in long-term oriented entrepreneurs and teams working in artificial intelligence (AI) and human-assisted intelligence (HAI) and he has made numerous investments in this space. He is Chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating Committee. He served on Facebook's board from 2005 to 2013 after leading the company's Series A funding round. He served on Etsy's board from 2008 to 2016 and was the company's largest outside shareholder during its IPO in 2015. Notably, Etsy is one of the first B Corporations to successfully go public and continue to grow significantly post-offering. He was the lead investor for Legendary Entertainment's first funding round and served as a board member until its acquisition by Dalian Wanda in March 2016. He was also an investor and board member of Marvel Entertainment through its investment by Disney in 2009. His other board memberships include Wal-Mart, where he served for over a decade and was the lead independent director until his retirement in 2013, and Dell Inc., where he was a director through the company's $24 billion take-private in 2013. He is passionate about philanthropy and applying venture philanthropy and innovation models to education, the arts, and environmental sustainability. He is a Fellow of Harvard Corporation, Harvard's senior governing board; a member of Harvard Business School's Board of Dean's Advisors since 2001; a member of Harvard University's Global Advisory Council since inception; a founding member of the Dean's Advisory Board at Stanford's School of Engineering. He is passionate about the Breyer Center at Stanford-in-Florence and is a former Trustee of Menlo School (a grade 6-12 school in Atherton, CA). In addition, he is a long-time Trustee of SFMOMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles. He is actively involved in The Environmental Defense Fund and Stanford's Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). He began his career at Accel, where he was a partner for nearly three decades and served as Managing Partner. He also co-founded AKKR, a joint venture between Accel and KKR in 2000. He graduated from Stanford University with a BS degree, and from Harvard University with an MBA, where he was named a Baker Scholar. He is also an Angel Investor. He is a Co-Founder and served as a Board Member at Accel-KKR. He serves as an Advisor at Elemental Cognition. He serves as an Advisor at ClosedLoop.ai. He serves as a Board Member at Soley Therapeutics.