Kleiner’s Lane Tells Jury Partner Won Promotion After Affair
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Ex-Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Ray Lane recounted to jurors how a married junior partner was promoted at the firm after being reprimanded for his sexual relationship with a colleague that he initially lied about.
“Great question,” Lane, Kleiner partner emeritus and former chairman at Hewlett-Packard Co., said Monday in response to a question by Kleiner’s lawyer about why he supported the promotion. Lane was called as a witness at the sex bias trial of Ellen Pao, who accuses the firm of retaliating against her and then firing her for complaining about a co-worker whom she alleged pressured her into having an affair in 2006.