James Norwood

James Norwood is a Senior Advisor at Accel-KKR having previously served as an operational executive in Accel-KKR portfolio companies for more than a decade.

With over 35 years enterprise business software experience, James has a proven track record in market and product strategy, sales and marketing, M&A, pricing and packaging, brand creation and differentiation, and has detailed industry knowledge. Prior to his Accel-KKR advisory role, James served as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at isolved; Executive Vice President Strategy, Chief of Staff and CMO at Episerver (sold to Insight Venture Partners in 2018 for $1.16 billion); Senior Vice President and CMO at KANA Software (sold to Verint Systems in 2014 for $514 million); and has held C-level and executive leadership roles at a number of CRM, ERP, HCM, eCommerce and Martech software companies during his career.

James’ current boards seats include SugarCRM, isolved, and Quartex

James’ former directorships include: Ektron and Episerver.

James studied Computer Science at the University of Westminster in London, UK before co-founding his first technology startup in 1988.

* Senior Advisors are consultants who are not employees of Accel-KKR or its affiliates but have a strategic relationship with Accel-KKR and/or provide advice or services to Accel-KKR or its portfolio companies.