Jerry Murdock & Insight Venture Partners

Jerry Murdock is the Managing Director of Insight Venture Partners. He is the co-founder of this company. Although this company was only established in 1995 but, it is a leading private equity and venture capital firm now.

It focuses mainly on global software, internet and data services industries. Apart from helping this company to raise more than $3billion US dollars, Jerry Murdock is also active as a director for other companies like DivX Inc (NASDAQ:DIVX), Click Commerce (NASDAQ:CKCM), Convergent Group (NASDAQ:CVGP),Peace Software, Quest Software (NASDAQ:QSFT) and SeeBeyond Technology Corp (NASDAQ:SBYN).

Before joining Insight Venture Partners, Jerry Murdock worked as a director for  Aspen Technology Group. He was also one of the founders of this company. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of both The Santa Fe Institute and The Aspen Institute. Prior to that, he worked at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies in export competitiveness projects.
 
One of his works was published in The Export Competitive Series called as Comparative Analysis of Export Policy, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Japan.

Alex Crisses Insight Venture Partners

Alex Crisses has a number of  outstanding achievements. He graduated with a high distinction in Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School Boston, MA as a George F. Baker Scholar.

For his basic degree, Alex Crisses graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School Philadelphia, PA. He was the recipient of Dean’s Award for Excellence, The Wharton School’s Top Honor. Apart from his academic qualifications, he was also active as a varsity tennis player in University of Pennsylvania.

Currently, Alex Crisses is working as a principal with focus on infrastructure software and internet investments for Insight Venture Partners. He is also actively involved in non-profit organizations like Minds Matter. Minds Matter helps good students from high schools from low-income groups to realize their college and career dreams.


Alex Crisses sets a really good example of an all-rounder, sports, work, education and helping society.