Location Incline Village, Nevada, United States Regions Western US Gender Male
Investor Type Investment Partner, Individual/Angel Investor Stage Early Stage Venture, Seed Number of Exits
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Jeff Huber is the Founding CEO and Vice Chairman of GRAIL (2016-present). GRAIL's mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured.
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), Google Apps (2005-2010), and Google Ads (2003-2011). 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 and senior vice president of engineering at Excite@Home, where he led consumer product and infrastructure development.
Jeff was recognized as one of the ‘100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs’ (2017), and is an active early-stage investor/advisor in breakthrough life sciences and technology companies, including Openwater, Mammoth Biosciences, Vir, Sana, Zymergen, Atomwise, Genalyte, Pinterest, Honor, OpenDoor, and AngelList.
Jeff holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois, where he was Commencement Speaker (2016) 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. Jeff is a board member of GRAIL (Vice Chairman), Genalyte (Chairman), Electronic Arts (EA), Openwater, and The Exploratorium, and a former board member of Illumina (ILMN; 2014-2016).