James Breyer is the co-founder and CEO of Breyer Capital. He is a member of the board of directors of The Blackstone Group. Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of IDG Capital. He is a member of the investment advisory board at Xfund. Co-founder and board member of EDO and board member of GNL Qu©bec. He has been a board member of UM and Wickr. He has been an investor in over 40 consumer internet/technology companies that have had successful public offerings or mergers, including Facebook, Etsy, Legendary, Datalogix and Marvel Entertainment. As a lead investor and/or board member, he has helped teams at more than a dozen companies complete IPOs. Several of his investments have returned more than 100 times their value to investors, and more than a dozen more than 25 times their value. Over the past few years, he has developed a deep personal and investment interest in, and made many investments in, long-term entrepreneurs and teams in artificial intelligence (AI) and human-assisted intelligence (HIA). He also has extensive experience investing in China and working with Chinese entrepreneurs, including a major limited partnership between Breyer Capital and IDG Capital, a leading technology venture capital firm based in Beijing. It has been actively involved with IDG China for more than a decade and currently plays a leading role as an outside strategic advisor to the company. IDG's investments in China include Xiaomi, Baidu and Tencent, among others. He currently serves on the boards of Blackstone and 21st Century Fox, where he is chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating Committee. He served on Facebook's board from 2005 to 2013, leading the company's Series A funding round. He served on Etsy's board from 2008 to 2016 and was the company's largest outside shareholder at the time of its 2015 IPO. Notably, Etsy is one of the first B corporations to successfully go public and continued to grow significantly after the offering. He was the lead investor in Legendary Entertainment's first financing round and was a board member until its acquisition by Dalian Wanda in March 2016. He was also an investor and board member of Marvel Entertainment after its acquisition by Disney in 2009. Other board members include Wal-Mart, where he served for more than a decade and was the lead independent director until his retirement in 2013, and Dell Inc. where he was a board member during its $24 billion privatization in 2013. He is passionate about philanthropy and the application of venture philanthropy and innovation models in areas such as education, the arts and environmental sustainability. He is a member of the Harvard Corporation, Harvard's highest governing board; a member of the Harvard Business School Dean's Council of Advisors since 2001; a member of Harvard University's Global Advisory Board since its inception; a founding member of the Stanford Engineering School Dean's Advisory Board; chairman of the Stanford Engineering School Venture Fund and chairman of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management Advisory Board. He is very fond of the Breyer Center at Stanford-in Florence and is a former trustee of the Menlo School (a 6-12th grade school in Atherton, California). He is also a long-time trustee of SFMOMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles. He is active in the Environmental Defense Fund and the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). He began his career at Accel, where he was a partner for nearly three decades and served as managing partner. He also co-founded AKKR, a joint venture between Accel and KKR in 2000. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA and Harvard University with an MBA, where he was named a Baker Scholar. He is also an angel investor. He is a co-founder and board member of Accel-KKR. He is also an advisor to Elemental Cognition. He is an advisor to ClosedLoop.ai.