Executive Officers

Alex Slusky, 53
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

Mr. Slusky founded Vector Capital in 1997 and has more than 25 years of investing and operating experience in technology companies. He is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Vector I, Vector II and Vector IV. He has deep technical experience in both private and public technology companies and has successfully invested across multiple market cycles including the 1998 – 2000 Internet bubble and the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis. Prior to founding Vector Capital, Mr. Slusky led the technology equity practice at Ziff Brothers Investments, managing a portfolio of public and private technology investments which later became Vector Capital I. Prior to Ziff, Mr. Slusky spent three years at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where he focused on venture investments in software, communications, and digital media. Mr. Slusky began his career at Microsoft and McKinsey & Company.

David Fishman, 50
President

Mr. Fishman joined Vector Capital in 2006 and has more than 20 years of investing and transactional experience in technology companies. He is the President of Vector I, Vector II and Vector IV. Prior to joining Vector, Mr. Fishman spent ten years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he was a Managing Director in the Mergers and Acquisitions division and focused on technology and media transactions. Mr. Fishman has extensive transaction expertise, having consummated approximately 30 mergers and acquisitions during his tenure at Goldman, worth an aggregate value of $110 billion, including transactions involving Microsoft, eBay, Adobe, IBM, Oracle, and PeopleSoft.

David Baylor, 61
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Baylor joined Vector Capital in 2008 and has more than 30 years of operating experience, including as a senior executive at a publicly traded company. He is the Chief Financial Officer of Vector I, Vector II and Vector IV. Prior to joining Vector, Mr. Baylor was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Thomas Weisel Partners where he was a member of the Executive Committee. Prior to Thomas Weisel Partners, Mr. Baylor was a Managing Director with Montgomery Securities, a securities attorney with Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, and a certified public accountant with Deloitte & Touche.

Board of Directors

Patrick Nichols, 46
Director Nominee

Mr. Nichols has been Chief Executive Officer of Quest Software since April 2020. Prior to joining Quest Software, Mr. Nichols was Chief Executive Officer of Corel Corporation from 2014 to 2020. Mr. Nichols was a member of the board of directors of CloudSense from December 2017 to May 2020. Mr. Nichols obtained a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Jacqueline Lenart, 52
Director Nominee

Ms. Lenart has global, multi-channel, consumer and retail experience. During the past eight years, Ms. Lenart has held a number of retained advisory engagements for private equity and venture-backed portfolio companies focused on value creation in the consumer and retail sectors. Ms. Lenart has been an advisor to XB Advisors LLC since 2017 where she is part of a team sourcing strategic deals for US private equity portfolio companies. From 2014 to 2017, Ms. Lenart was an Advisory Director for Investcorp, a leading provider and manager of alternative investment products, supporting their North American private equity team. Prior to joining Investcorp, Ms. Lenart spent nine years in executive marketing roles within Gap Inc. and before that, eight years with The Campbell Soup Company both in the US and Australia. Ms. Lenart holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Summa Cum Laude) from The University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.