G. Leonard
Baker, Jr.
Managing Director
Sutter Hill Ventures

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G. Leonard Baker, Jr.

Len Baker has been a partner of Sutter Hill Ventures, Silicon Valley’s oldest venture capital firm, since 1973. He has been an active investor in a number of industries, including entertainment media, semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, biotechnology and medical equipment, and software.

Currently, Len serves on the boards of a number of public and private companies: Corcept Therapeutics, Infomedics, Line 6, Yaolan Ltd. (BabyCare), and Youku. He is also 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.

Before joining Sutter Hill, Len worked for Cummins Engine Company, a manufacturer of diesel engines, and for the Delta Foundation, a community-owned, minority business development firm in Greenville, Mississippi.

Len is a trustee of Yale University, where he chairs the finance committee and serves on the investment committee. He serves as a director of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Special Investments. He is a board member of Environmental Defense Fund. Mr. Baker is a former board member and chair of the finance and academic committees of Sacred Heart School in Atherton, California.

He earned his BA in mathematics from Yale in 1964 and his MBA from Stanford in 1966.