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José Baselga, Brook Byers, Kaye Foster

May 04, 2017

Grail has appointed José Baselga, Brook Byers, and Kaye Foster to its board of directors. They will join currently serving board members Bill Rastetter, Jeff Huber, Richard Klausner, and Robert Nelsen. Baselga is the physician-in-chief and chief medical officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. He also serves as the chairman of Grail's Scientific Advisory Board. Byers is a senior partner and founding member of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). Foster currently advises CEOs and leadership teams focusing on business transformations, talent management strategy, and human resources strategy development and implementation. She most recently served as senior VP of Global Human Resources for Onyx Pharmaceuticals.

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