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, 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.
