Jon brings to NVP more than a decade of growth equity experience from leading global investment firms. Based in NVP’s Palo Alto office, Jon is focused on growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors, including information technology, business services, financial services and healthcare.
Prior to joining NVP, Jon was a Director at Goldman Sachs, where he headed the San Francisco, California office for the firm’s Americas Special Situations Group. In this role, he focused on growth equity investments from $15 million to $200 million across a variety of industries, while leading all aspects of the deal process.
Prior to Goldman Sachs, Jon spent nearly 10 years at TA Associates in Menlo Park, a private equity firm with $16 billion in capital under management. He began his tenure at TA as an Associate in the Technology practice in 1998 and soon progressed to become a Vice President. Later on as a Principal, he led TA’s West Coast Business Services Practice. In these various roles, Jon was engaged in all aspects of the deal process including idea generation, deal sourcing, due diligence, deal negotiation and board representation. During his time at TA, Jon worked with such companies as 5.11 Tactical, Asurion, Babcock Jenkins, Circle Graphics, CoreLogic, Logistics Health, TogetherSoft, Voyant Technologies and WebSideStory.
Earlier in his career, Jon spent two years at Leo Burnett USA, a global advertising agency, where he managed strategy development and campaign management for several Fortune 500 companies.
Jon obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Harvard College.