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Beth Seidenberg

Co-founding Managing Director at Westlake Village BioPartners

Westlake Village, California

Overview 

Beth Seidenberg is a Co-founding Managing Director at Westlake Village BioPartners and a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins, with a background in senior leadership roles at Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Merck. She has invested in numerous successful companies like Star Therapeutics and ArsenalBio, focusing on biotech and health IT sectors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Seidenberg's career highlights include her current roles at Westlake Village BioPartners and Kleiner Perkins, as well as her extensive experience in senior vice president and director positions at major pharmaceutical companies like Amgen and Bristol Myers Squibb.

Work Experience 

  • Co-founding Managing Director at Westlake Village BioPartners

    2018 - Current

Westlake Village BioPartners is venture capital firm focused on incubating and building life sciences companies.

  • General Partner

    2005

    General partner at Kleiner Perkins focused on life science investing working with entrepreneurs to develop companies with breakthrough technology for treating patients and improving health.

  • Senior Vice President

    2002 - 2005

    Responsible for worldwide Clinical Development including Clinical Operations and Regulatory Affairs.

Amgen is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures human therapeutics for various illnesses and diseases.

Raised $28,500,000,000.00 from Citibank and Bank of America.

  • Senior Vice President, Global Development

    2001 - 2002

  • Senior Vice President, Clinical Development & Life Cycle Management

    2000 - 2001

  • Vice President, Clinical Immunology/Pulmonary/Dermatology

    2000 - 2000

Bristol-Myers Squibb engages in the discovery, development, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and sale of pharmaceuticals.

Raised $23,580,000,000.00 from RA Capital Management, OUP (Osage University Partners), Aperture Venture Partners, Greg Bailey, Connecticut Innovations, Knoll Capital Management, Vivo Capital, Venrock, Litmore Capital and Carl Icahn.

  • Vice President, Pulmonary-Immunology

    1998 - 2000

  • Executive Director

    1996 - 1998

  • Senior Director

    1993 - 1996

  • Director, Clinical Pharmacology

    1991 - 1993

  • Associate Director, Clinical Pharmacology

    1989 - 1991

Merck is a biopharmaceutical company that offers medicines and vaccines for various diseases.

Raised $5,586,000.00 from Private Capital Advisors.

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