# Tom Barnds

## Co-Managing Partner

Tom Barnds is the Co-Managing Partner at Accel-KKR. Since Tom founded the firm in 2000, Accel-KKR has acquired or invested in over 500 software and technology-enabled service companies.

Tom’s current board seats include: Basware, FastSpring, imed, Kantata, Lemontech, NAVTOR, Recurly, Siigo, TELCOR, Tithe.ly, Vendavo, Veryon and Vitu.

Tom’s former selected directorships include:

- Blackhawk Network (NASDAQ: HAWK) ( _sold to Silver Lake Partners for $3.5 billion in 2018_)
- Smart Communications ( _sold to Cinven for $1.8 billion in 2025_)
- JAGGAER _(sold to Cinven for $1.6 billion in 2019)_
- Episerver ( _sold to Insight Partners for $1.2 billion in 2018_)
- Seequent _(sold to Bentley Systems for $1.1 billion in 2021)_
- Kerridge Commercial Systems _(sold to CapVest for $1.1 billion in 2023)_
- Endurance ( _sold to a private equity consortium led by Warburg Pincus for $1.0 billion in 2011_)
- Springbrook Software ( _sold to Five Arrows for over $800 million in 2024_)
- TrueCommerce ( _sold to WCAS for $800 million in 2020_)
- HighJump Software ( _sold to Körber AG for $750 million in 2017_)
- Applied Predictive Technologies ( _sold to MasterCard for $600 million in 2015_)
- iTradeNetwork ( _sold to Roper Industries for $525 million in 2010_)
- KANA Software ( _sold to Verint Systems for $514 million in 2014_)
- Saber ( _sold to EDS for $460 million in 2007_)
- Oildex ( _sold to Enverus for $390 million in 2018_)
- Abila ( _sold to Community Brands for $285 million in 2017_)
- Alias ( _sold to Autodesk for $200 million in 2006_)
- CRS Retail Systems ( _sold to Epicor for $121 million in 2005_).

Prior to founding Accel-KKR in 2000, Tom was a Managing Director at Nassau Capital, a private equity firm engaged in investing $2.5 billion of Princeton University’s endowment, where for four years he led growth equity investments and buyouts in technology, energy, media and healthcare. Prior to Nassau Capital, Tom ran Business Development at McGaw, a successful leveraged buyout led by DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and ABS Capital. Tom started his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Alex. Brown & Sons, where he worked with emerging growth and technology companies. Tom has been a guest lecturer on private equity topics at Stanford University and Princeton University.

Tom received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his A.B. from Princeton University.