Director
Jeffrey Diehl
Jeffrey Diehl is a Partner at Adams Street Partners. Jeff invests in venture and growth-oriented companies in the software, IT-enabled business services and consumer internet/media sectors.
Jeff serves on the Boards of Directors of cbanc Network, Paylocity, Peerless Network, Q2ebanking, SnagAJob, T3Media and WhiteFence. He is a Board Observer at Spiceworks, Dolex and MagicJack (NASDAQ: CALL). He is a former Board Member at MxLogic (bought by McAfee) and Stratavia (bought by Hewlett-Packard).
He has also been involved with Adams Street’s investments in Adams Harris, AMWINS (bought by New Mountain), Ancestry.com (NASDAQ: ACOM), BirdsEye, CBeyond (NASDAQ: CBEY), FiftyOne, Gevity HR (NASDAQ: GVHR), Kappa Smurfit (LSE: SKG.L), KPG Ventures, Setanta, Scientific Protein Labs and TicketsNow (bought by Ticketmaster).
Previous Experience:
Brinson Partners/UBS Global Asset Management
The Parthenon Group
Academic:
Cornell University, BS, with distinction
Harvard University, MBA
Blake Bartlett
Blake focuses on emerging- and growth-stage investments in software businesses at Openview Venture Partners.
Prior to joining OpenView, Blake was a Vice President at Battery Ventures, where he focused on growth-stage software and internet businesses. Blake joined Battery in 2009 and helped lead 10 investments, including Wayfair, Optimizely, Sprinklr, Catchpoint, Glassdoor, Tealium, Q2eBanking, Mass Relevance, and VSS Monitoring (acquired by Danaher). He began his career in the growth equity group at Kayne Anderson, a $25 billion private equity firm in Los Angeles.
Blake graduated with a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.