Jacques joined USVP in 2005 and became a Venture Partner in 2009. Jacques focuses on fostering USVP's position as an active investor in the Israel
market and bringing a top Silicon Valley firm to work directly with Israeli entrepreneurs and venture investors. In addition, Jacques is working
with local USVP companies. He currently is involved with BPT, Kilopass, Trusteer, Yoomba and serves as executive chairman of Synfora. He worked
previously with Dune Networks (acquired by Broadcom), Clearshape (acquired by Cadence), LightSpeed Logic and was executive of chairman of Certess
from its early days to its acquisition by Springsoft.
Before joining USVP, Jacques had significant operational experience as CEO and President 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 (EPIC) and participated in the company's IPO and subsequent acquisition by Synopsys, where he became vice president of European Sales.
Jacques has held a number of research and management positions at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium, at IBM's Scientific Center in Haifa, Israel and
STMicroelectronics in Grenoble, France.
Jacques also serves on board of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the American Technion Society, the board of the California Israel Chamber of
Commerce, and on the Steering Committees of the Israel Web Tour and the Israel Cleantech Tour. He was on the board and vice-chairman of the EDA
Consortium from 1999 through 2005.
Fluent in English, French and Hebrew, Jacques holds a B.Sc in computer engineering from Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and an MS and
Ph.D in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has published over 30 technical papers.
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