Kleiner sexism trial: Exec defends promotion strategy, saying few make senior partner

Practically no junior partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have been made senior partners at the firm, a top partner there testified in a sex bias trial on Friday. Only three made the jump in the Menlo Park firms first 30 years, Ted Schlein told jurors in the trial brought by former junior partner Ellen Pao, USA Today reported. They were John Doerr, who was promoted in 1992, Joseph Lacob in 1992 and Doug Mackenzie in 1994. Most junior partners stay on at Kleiner Perkins for three or four…