Jacques joined USVP in 2005 and focuses on fostering USVP position as an active investor in the Israeli market. He is working with
several USVP companies such as BPT, Factery, HelloFax, Kilopass, Mobbles, Qnovo, Trusteer, and Zerto. Previously, he has advised
several portfolio companies including ClearShape (Cadence), Dune Networks (Broadcom), LightSpeed, and Yoomba, and served as executive
chairman of Certess (Springsoft) and Synfora (Synopsys).
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 (EPIC) and became
Vice President of European Sales following its acquisition by Synopsys. 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 STMicroelectronics in Grenoble,
France.
Fluent in English, French and Hebrew, Jacques holds a B.Sc. in computer engineering from Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and
an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and has published over 30 technical papers.
He is currently Chairman of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the American Technion Society, on the board of the California Israel Chamber
of and was vice-chairman of the EDA Consortium from 1999 through 2005.
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