Wen Hsieh

Who is Wen Hsieh?

Wen Hsieh joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers in February 2006.

His focus areas of investment include Greentech, applications and

products enabled by novel materials, and semiconductor technologies.Prior

to KPCB, Wen was an Associate Principal at McKinsey Co San

Francisco and a leader of McKinsey’s Asia Semiconductor Practice.

During his 5 years at McKinsey, Wen’s primary focus was on serving

leading companies across the global semiconductor value chain. His

clients included EDA companies, design houses, wafer fab equipment

vendors, automated test equipment vendors, test solution providers,

wafer foundries, logic memory IDMs, PC/server OEMs and component

distributors. At McKinsey, Wen’s secondary focus was on serving

small companies in the North America biopharma sector. His clients

included companies in the anti-viral, generics and specialty pharma

segments. Wen’s consulting experiences have been in the

functional areas of alliance JV strategies, new business

building, growth strategy, low-cost region outsourcing, manufacturing

strategy operations, MA due-diligence, pre-

post-merger management, pricing sales programs and RD

strategies. Before McKinsey, Wen founded OnChip Technologies, a

startup developing MEMS microfluidic-based protein chips. The target

market was high-sensitivity and high-throughput protein separation and

identification applications.Wen earned a Ph.D. in Electrical

Engineering and a Ph.D. Minor in Biology from the California Institute

of Technology. He also received a B.S. with Honors and a M.S. in

Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.email: wenh@kpcb.com