DEAN JACOBSON

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, a leading provider of digital phone services. 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 group at Robertson Stephens where he worked with growing companies in the semiconductor, hardware, storage and digital media sectors. Dean received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar and his AB from Harvard University where he was a member of the Harvard football team for four years and a Campbell Trophy Semi-Finalist in 1998.