JDRF Announces New President/CEO, Jeffrey Brewer

We were thrilled to hear recently that Jeffrey Brewer was named President and CEO of the JDRF. Mr. Brewer brings substantial personal and professional experience to his new position: the highly regarded entrepreneur was previously co-founder of Overture Services, an early Web 2.0 company purchased by Yahoo! for $1.6 billion in 2003. Mr. Brewer was also Chief Technology Officer at CitySearch and Executive Chairman of the non-profit organization Kickstart International. And as the father of a child with type 1 diabetes, there’s no doubt that Mr. Brewer will bring considerable passion to the job as well. Mr. Brewer has also been an active JDRF volunteer, heavily involved in the Artificial Pancreas Project (by many views, he launched it) and serving as a director of JDRF’s International Board since 2004. We salute Brewer for taking on this role, which has had a number of CEOs in recent years. We feel great as patients that Brewer has taken on the role, and we look forward to his continued great influence on JDRF in the months and years ahead. --AB