Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Insight Venture Partners: Jerry Murdock

"Jerry Murdock is a co-founder of Insight Venture Partners. Since Insight’s inception in 1995, he has played a leading role in defining the company’s investment strategy and has been primarily responsible for the development of many of the firm’s portfolio investments.

Mr. Murdock currently serves as a director of Quest Software (NASDQ:QSFT), CallWave Inc (NASDQ:CALL), Dorado Software, DivX Inc (NASDQ:DIVX), DriveCam and Beatport. Previously he served as a director of Click Commerce (NASDQ:CKCM), Convergent Group (NASDQ:CVGP), Digital Harbor, In-Fusio, McKinley (acquired by Excite), Peace Software and SeeBeyond Technology Corp (NASDQ:SBYN).

From 1988 to 1995 Mr. Murdock was a founder and director of the Aspen Technology Group. Mr. Murdock graduated with a degree in Political Science from San Diego State University and subsequently worked at the Georgetown Center for Strategic & International Studies (now known as CSIS) where he was a contributor to the export competitiveness project. His work was published in The Export Competitive Series: Comparative Analysis of Export Policy, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Japan.

Mr. Murdock is a member of the Board of Trustees of both The Santa Fe Institute and The Aspen Institute."

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