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Bio

Jerry Murdock is a managing director and the co-founder of Insight Venture Partners. Since Insight’s inception in 1995, he has played a leading role in defining the company’s investment strategy and has been primarily responsible for the development of many of the firm’s portfolio investments.

Mr. Murdock currently serves as a director of CallWave Inc.(NASDQ:CALL), DivX (NASDAQ: DIVX); Quest Software (NASDQ: QSFT), Beatport, DriveCam, and Dorado Software, Inc. Previously he served as a director of Click Commerce (NASDQ: CKCM), Convergent Group (NASDQ: CVGP)(acquired by Schlumberger), McKinley (acquired by Excite) and SeeBeyond Technology Corporation (NASDQ: SBYN). Mr. Murdock also led Insight's investment in Illuminet (NASDQ: ILUM) (acquired by Verisign).

Prior to Insight, Mr. Murdock founded the Aspen Technology Group to provide strategic consultancy services to clients including Warburg Pincus, Andersen Consulting, EDS, TRW Corporation and numerous high technology companies and private equity investment firms.

Mr. Murdock graduated with a degree in Political Science from San Diego State University and subsequently worked at the Georgetown Center for Strategic & International Studies (now known as CSIS) where he was a contributor to the export competitiveness project. His work was published in The Export Competitive Series: Comparative Analysis of Export Policy, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Japan.

Mr. Murdock is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Aspen Institute, and a co-founder of the Institute’s Roundtable on Information Technologies.

Mr. Murdock is also a member of the Board of Trustees of The Santa Fe Institute.