Jerel Davis

Jerel is a Principal at a venture capital firm, Versant Ventures, in Menlo Park. He was a graduate student in the Petrov Lab from 2000-2005 where he pursued both computational and wet lab projects, studying molecular evolution at the genome scale and focusing much of his time on gene duplication. Prior to Stanford, Jerel was a researcher at Amgen and did his undergraduate degree at Pepperdine University where he majored in Biology and Mathematics. From Stanford, Jerel joined McKinsey and Company where he served as a Junior Partner advising healthcare corporations in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical device, and molecular diagnostic fields.  During his 6 years at McKinsey, he worked in a number of geographies including the US, Europe, China, Russia, and India.  In 2011, Jerel joined Versant Ventures where he specializes in venture capital biotechnology investing.