John Seely Brown

John serves as a Venture Partner at OMEGA. He has been a Board Director of Amazon, Polycom, Corning, and In-Q-Tel. Previously, John was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Managing Director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

John is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and a trustee for the MacArthur Foundation. He is also the Independent Co-Chairman for Deloitte’s Center for the Edge where he pursues research on institutional innovation.

John holds a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Physics from Brown University, and a PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan.