Jay Hoag

Bio

Jay Hoag, a co-founder of TCV, has been a venture capitalist and technology investor for over 27 years. Jay has been involved in TCV investments in Actuate Software, Ariba Technologies, Altiris (sold to Symantec), BlueCoat Systems (formerly CacheFlow), C|Net, eHarmony, eLoyalty, Encompass (sold to Yahoo!), EXE Technologies, Expedia, Fandango, Netflix, ONYX Software, RealNetworks, SpringStreet (sold to Homestore.com), TechTarget, Vacationspot.com (sold to Expedia), Viant Corporation and Zillow among others. Prior to TCV, Jay was a Managing Director at Chancellor Capital Management where he spent over 12 years as a technology focused venture capitalist and fund manager. In addition to generating industry leading performance managing public technology portfolios, Jay led private investments in Ascend Communications, CompUSA, Intuit, Macromedia, NETCOM, PictureTel, Pure Software, Sybase and many others. Jay received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He is currently on the Board of Directors of eHarmony, Netflix, TechTarget and Zillow. Jay is on the Investment Advisory Committee at the University of Michigan, the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University, the Board of Trustees at the Menlo School and the Stanford Athletic Board.