# Dean Jacobson

## Managing Director

Dean Jacobson is a Managing Director at Accel-KKR.

Prior to joining Accel-KKR, Dean was a Vice President with Summit Partners where he was involved in private equity investments in the technology and financial services sectors. Prior to Summit, Dean worked as a Director of Corporate Development at Vonage. Before Vonage, Dean was an Associate Director at 3i, a leading global private equity firm where he focused on the firm’s later-stage technology investing practice in the United States. Dean started his career in the technology investment banking group at Robertson Stephens.

Dean’s current board seats include: Appspace, Basware, FastSpring, GPS Insight, INX Software, isolved, Recurly, Salary, Springbrook Software, SugarCRM, TELCOR, Vendavo, Veryon and Yes Energy.

Dean’s former selected directorships include: Surgical Information Systems (sold to Nordic Capital in 2024), FM:Systems ( _sold to Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) in 2023_), Seequent ( _sold to Bentley Systems (NASD: BSY) in 2021_), JAGGAER _(sold to Cinven in 2019),_ Cielo _(sold to the Permira Funds in 2019)_, Oildex _(sold to Drillinginfo in 2018), Episerver (sold to Insight Venture Partners in 2018), Abila (sold to Community Brands in 2017),_ KANA Software _(sold to Verint Systems (NASD: VRNT) in 2014)_ and the Endurance International Group _(sold to a private equity consortium in 2011)_ .

Dean received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar and his A.B. from Harvard University.