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Jerry Murdock, Business Savvy and More

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Some people talk with no walk, while others walk the talk.  Jerry Murdock is the latter and more.  He is a  seasoned venture capitalist and co-founder of Insight Venture Partners.  His role – define the company’s investment strategy and develop portfolio investments.

 

Jerry Murdock graduated from San Diego State University.  With his Political Science degree in hand, he became a export competitiveness contributor to the Georgetown Center for Strategic & International Studies (now known as CSIS).  Later Mr. Murdock founded and directed the Aspen Technology Group.  He still serves there as a Board of Trustees member.

 

Jerry Murdock also sits on the Board of Trustees for The Santa Fe Institute.  He directs several companies – Fuze Box, Inc. (nee Callwave, Inc.), Dorado Software, DivX Inc, DriveCam and Beatport.  Previously he served as a director of Click Commerce, Convergent Group, Digital Harbor, Illuminet (ILUM,acquired by VeriSign, Inc, In-Fusio, McKinley (acquired by Excite), Peace Software, Quest Software, and SeeBeyond Technology Corp.