George Baker Jr.

George Baker Jr. General Information

Biography

Mr. Leonard Baker serves as a Board Member at Corcept Therapeutics. Mr. Baker serves as a Member of the International Advisory Board, a Member of the Investment Board & Advisor of the Investment Strategies Committee at GIC (Singapore). He served as Senior Advisor at Appian Capital Advisory. He serves as a Limited Partner at Sutter Hill Ventures. Mr. Baker served as a Board Member at Youku. He also serves as a Board Member at Corcept Therapeutics, Infomedics, Line 6, GIC, Yaolan. In addition, he is responsible for Sutter Hill's investment in Chengwei Ventures, a venture capital firm in Shanghai that Sutter Hill helped start in 1999, and in Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm in San Francisco that Sutter Hill helped found in 2000. He earned a BA in mathematics from Yale University in 1964 and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1966. He worked for Cummins Engine Company in London and Columbus, Indiana, and the Delta Foundation, a community development corporation started by civil rights leaders in Greenville, Mississippi. He is a trustee of Yale University, where he chairs the Finance Committee and serves on the Investment Committee. He is a board member of the Environmental Defense Fund. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board and Investment Strategies Committee for the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and is a member of Singapore's International Academic Advisory Panel. Additionally, he serves as an Advisor at the Packard Foundation Investment Committee and is a member of the Alta Advisers Advisory Board in London. He is a former board member and chair of the finance and academic committees of Sacred Heart School in Atherton, California.