Jason Klein
Senior Advisor
Jason Klein is a Senior Advisor at Accel-KKR. He was previously a Managing Director at Accel-KKR and joined the firm during its inaugural fund.
Prior to joining Accel-KKR, Jason worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in investment banking in both the Technology, Media & Telecom group and the Merger Department. Jason previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities, the investment banking subsidiary of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he advised mid-market companies on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and buyout transactions. Earlier in his career, Jason worked in the Financial Advisory Services practice at Cooper & Lybrand. He has also spent time auditing companies at both Coopers & Lybrand and Arthur Andersen.
Jason’s current board seats include: imed, Paymentus (NYSE: PAY), SugarCRM and Vitu.
Jason’s former selected directorships include:
- Episerver (sold to Insight Venture Partners for $1.16 billion in 2018)
- HighJump Software (sold to Körber AG for $750 million in 2017)
- Infinisource Benefit Services (until 2018)
- Integrichain (sold to Nordic Capital for $465 million in 2023)
- IntrinsiQ (sold to AmerisourceBergen Corporation NYSE: ABC in 2011)
- Isolved (until 2018)
- iTradeNetwork (sold to Roper Industries NYSE: ROP for $525 million in 2010)
- JAGGAER (sold to Cinven for $1.6 billion in 2019)
- KANA Software (sold to Verint Systems – NASDAQ: VRNT for $514 million in 2014)
- Kerridge Commercial Systems (sold to CapVest for $1.1 billion in 2023)
- Saber (sold to EDS for $460 million in 2007)
- Smart Communications (sold to Cinven for $1.8 billion in 2025)
- TEAM Software (sold to WorkWave for $330 million in 2021)
- TrueCommerce (sold to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe for $800 million in 2020)
- Vyne (sold to The Jordan Company for $210 million in 2019)
- Board Observer of Model N (NYSE: MODN until its initial public offering in 2013)
Jason received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Finance and Strategic Management where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar and was awarded the Ford Fellowship (first-year Co-Valedictorian). He received a B.S. with Highest Distinction in Finance and Accounting and a minor in Speech Communications from the Pennsylvania State University.
Jason is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA, inactive) and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
* 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.