SPECIAL ADVISORS
Jim BreyerAccel Managing Partner
Jim Breyer has been responsible for Accel's investments in over 25 companies that have completed public offerings or successful mergers. These include software companies (his primary area of interest) such as:
Actuate (ACTU), Agile Software (AGIL), Arbor Software (now named Hyperion Solutions) (HYSL), Claremont, Collabra (acquired by Netscape), Lightspan (LSPN), Macromedia (MACR), Microprose, Narrative (acquired by @Home), RealNetworks (RNWK), Synopsys (SNPS), and Walmart.com (WMT). Network infrastructure investments include: Centillion (acquired by Bay Networks), Centrum (acquired by 3Com), Corsair (acquired by Lightbridge Communications), Foundry Networks (FDRY), and RedBack Networks (RBAK).
Jim is currently a director of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (WMT), RealNetworks (RNWK), and is involved with a number of privately held companies such as Accel-KKR, AlphaBlox, Andale, Apexon, BrassRing, Datasweep, eMac Digital, Groove Networks, ModelN, and Motive Communications.
Earlier, Jim worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York, and in product marketing and management at Apple Computer and Hewlett Packard.
Jim is a former President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and on the Board of the Associates of the Harvard Business School, National Venture Capital Association, Silicon Valley Community Ventures, the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund, and Technet. Jim is the Chairman of the Harvard Business School California Research Center, and is the Chairman of the Silicon Valley Region Committee for Stanford University's Campaign for Undergraduate Education. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. degree and from Harvard University with an M.B.A. where he was named a Baker Scholar.
