Jacques has broad experience, having worked in large companies as well as in startups as small as three guys in a garage. He has worked through IPOs and M&As for both small and large firms. The last decade his investment focus has been on cloud, enterprise software and security. He has held executive management positions, technical positions and sales and marketing roles over the course of his career and has been directly responsible for large bottom-line-generating revenue.

Jacques joined USVP in 2005. He has since focused on fostering USVP as an active investor in the Israeli market and in the IT markets in the U.S. Jacques currently sits on the boards or has an active role at AirEye, Cato Networks, Informed, Ionix, Human Interest, Hunters and Qnovo.

Before joining USVP, Jacques was President and CEO of Monterey Design Systems from 1999 until its acquisition by Synopsys (SNPS) in 2004. Prior to that, he founded and served as General Manager of the European subsidiary of Epic Design Technology, which went public in 1994 (EPIC) and became Vice President of Strategic Sales following its acquisition by Synopsys in 1997. Earlier in his career, Jacques held a number of research and management positions at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium, at IBM’s Scientific Center in Haifa, Israel, and at STMicroelectronics in Grenoble, France.

Jacques holds a B.Sc. in computer engineering from Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has published more than 30 technical papers and holds one U.S. patent. Jacques has published The Market Entry Strategy to help guide entrepreneurs through their initial steps in their market.