Jay Hoag

Who is Jay Hoag?

Jay Hoag, a co-founder of TCV, has been a venture capitalist and technology investor for over 25 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, InPhonic, Netflix, ONYX

Software, RealNetworks, R.J. O’Brien, 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, R.J.

O’Brien, TechTarget and Zillow. Jay is on the Advisory Board of HRJ

Capital, the Investment Advisory Committee at the University of

Michigan, the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University and the

Board of Trustees at the Menlo School.