Venrock Adds Pair

Steve Goldby and Ken Song have joined Venrock as a partner and vice president, respectively. Both will be based in Menlo Park. Goldby spent the past nine years with Venrock-based materials science company Symyx Technologies, where he now serves as executive chairman. Before that, he was CEO of scientific information company MDL Information Systems. Song is a veteran biomedical researcher, with such organizations as MIT Whitehead Institute, UCSF and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. www.venrock.com