Jeff Huber
| Jeff Huber | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏫 Education | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BS, Computer Engineering (1985-1989), Harvard Business School, MBA, Technology Strategy, Economics (1992-1994) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🏢 Organization | GRAIL[1], OpenCovidScreen |
Jeff Huber is the Founding CEO[2] and Vice Chairman of GRAIL (2016-present)[3]. GRAIL's mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured.
Jeff is also the Co-Founder & President of OpenCovidScreen (2020-present)[4], a non-profit focused on catalyzing COVID-19 testing/screening that is Frequent, Fast-turnaround, Cheap, and Easy ("FFCE") to enable safe Return-to-Work/School.
Career
Prior to GRAIL, Jeff was a Senior Vice President at Google. Over 13 years at Google, Jeff co-founded Google's life sciences efforts in Google[x] (2013-2016), and led development and scaling for Google Maps (2011-2013)[5], Google Apps (2005-2010), and Google Ads (2003-2011)[6]. During his tenure as an executive at Google, Jeff oversaw 50x growth in revenues (from $1 billion to >$50 billion) and organization (1,000 to >50,000 employees), and managed a $5 billion P&L and large distributed teams (5,000+ direct-line employees). Earlier, Jeff was Vice President of Architecture and Systems Development at eBay (2002-2003) and Senior Vice President of Engineering at Excite@Home (1996-2002), where he led consumer product and infrastructure development.
Education
Jeff holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1985-1989) where he was Commencement Speaker (2016)[7][8] and received a 'Distinguished Alumni Award' from the College of Electrical & Computer Engineering (2018) for 'challenging the status quo through innovation'. He also holds a master's degree in business from Harvard University (1992 - 1994) with a focus on Economics and Technology Strategy.
Boards & Affiliations
- GRAIL (Vice Chairman)[9]
- Genalyte (Chairman)[10]
- Electronic Arts (EA)[11] - Helped focus EA’s transition from retail to online & mobile delivery.
- Aldevron[12]
- Ancestry.com[13]
- Mammoth Biosciences[14]
- Openwater[15]
- Weta Digital
- Exploratorium[16]
- Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI)[17]
- Illumina (ILMN; 2014-2016)[18] - Advised on big data strategy. Chaired the CyberSecurity working committee to ensure privacy of genomic data and protect Illumina’s intellectual property assets. Chosen by Illumina Board to be the Founding CEO of GRAIL.
Jeff was recognized as one of the ‘100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs’ (2017)[by whom?], and is an active early-stage investor/advisor in breakthrough life sciences and technology companies, including Openwater, Mammoth Biosciences, Vir, Sana, Zymergen, Atomwise, Genalyte, Synthego, Pinterest, Honor, OpenDoor, and AngelList.[citation needed]
References
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- ↑ "GRAIL".
- ↑ Herper, Matthew. "Cancer Took His Wife. Now He's CEO Of One Of The Most Audacious Cancer Startups In Years". Forbes.
- ↑ Todd, Deborah M. "A former Google executive was just named CEO of a company developing a blood test for early cancer detection". Business Insider.
- ↑ "OpenCovidScreen".
- ↑ Farber, Dan. "Google Maps Chief Jeff Huber Steps Down to Join Google X". Wired.
- ↑ Carlson, Nicholas. "This Exec May Have The Hardest Job At Google, And His Colleagues Are Tired Of Seeing Him Get Trashed In The Press". Business Insider.
- ↑ Helenthal, Mike. "U. of I. alumnus Jeff Huber, Grail CEO and ex-Google exec, is 2016 commencement speaker". Illinois News Bureau.
- ↑ Huber, Jeff. "Find a Better Way". Medium.
- ↑ "GRAIL - About".
- ↑ "Genalyte - Our Leadership".
- ↑ "Jeff Huber Joins EA's Board of Directors". Business Wire.
- ↑ "Alvedron". EQT Group.
- ↑ "We come from a long line of innovators, leaders, and storytellers".
- ↑ Meiling, Brittany. "The Google of CRISPR tech? Tech legends Tim Cook and Jeff Huber back Mammoth Biosciences". EndpointsNews.
- ↑ "Openwater".
- ↑ "Exploratorium Board of Trustees".
- ↑ "Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy".
- ↑ Meiling, Brittany. "Illumina Appoints Google Exec Huber to Its Board". San Diego Business Journal.
