John Gage

John Gage is a partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He was the chief researcher and director of the Science Office for Sun Microsystems. Gage was responsible for Sun’s relationships with world scientific and technical organizations, for international public policy and governmental relations in the areas of scientific and technical policy and for alliances with the world’s leading research institutions and laboratories. In 1995, Gage created NetDay, the first Internet-based mass organizing project to enable communities to organize themselves to act locally. He is the host of a world-wide satellite television program, SunEnergy, that explores the frontiers of computing, networking, science and mathematics. Gage attended the University of California, Berkeley; the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He did doctoral work in mathematics and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and left Berkeley in 1982 with Bill Joy to found Sun Microsystems. He serves on numerous boards. Gage will teach a module called “Technology, Media and Governance.”