Known for Co-founding Citysearch | Name Jeffrey Brewer | |
Board member of JDRF International and Kickstart Alma mater Southern Methodist University | ||
Jeffrey brewer discusses bigfoot biomedical s automated insulin delivery system
Jeffrey Brewer is an American businessman and diabetes advocate. He was a co-founder of Citysearch and Overture Services, and is a past president of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
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Education
Brewer earned a degree in Economics from Southern Methodist University.
Citysearch
Brewer co-founded Citysearch in 1995, serving as the company’s VP of technology. He also worked in the positions of chief technology officer, and vice president of development. The company created the Internet’s first online city guides, including address information, reviews, and venue recommendations.
Overture Services
Upon its founding Brewer was the executive chairman of GoTo.com, later known as Overture Services and eventually sold to Yahoo! Through his company, he was the first individual to present a proof of concept for pay-per-click advertising, in February 1998 at the TED8 conference. By mid-1999 they had eight thousand clients, with $10 million in revenue. That year the company went public on the NASDAQ exchange, with Brewer as CEO. In 2001 Brewer left active management in Overture to take a year-long trip through Australia with his family.
Robotic pancreas development
After his son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2002, Brewer began to advocate for the creation of new software-driven equipment, capable of monitoring glucose levels at a constant rate in children. He decided to help in the development of a robotic pancreas. Brewer worked on developing a connection between this pump and an external glucose monitoring system that could be connected to the pump wirelessly. The first successful tests occurred in 2009 by researchers at Yale University, research that Brewer is pushing for FDA approval. He has also co-authored an article for the peer-reviewed journal “Diabetes”. In 2014, Brewer cofounded Bigfoot Biomedical with Bryan Mazlish and Lane Desborough to market and distribute the artificial pancreases he had helped to develop. Bigfoot Biomedical accelerated its push to bring a closed loop robotic pancreas to the marketplace by acquiring the assets of Asante Solutions, maker of the FDA approved SNAP insulin pump, in May of 2015.
Boards
In 2011 Brewer was named the president of JDRF International (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), a role in which he has served as a spokesperson for the company and commented on research and regulatory developments regarding the juvenile diabetes. From 2003 to 2010 he also served as the chairman of KickStart, a non-profit focusing on poverty-stricken countries in East-Africa.