Ryan J. Sweeney — Partner, Managing Partner, General Partner and Growth Fund Manager at Accel Partners

Mr. Ryan J. Sweeney serves as a Partner, Managing Partner, General Partner, and Growth Fund Manager of Accel Partners. Mr. Sweeney joined it in 2008 and focuses on growth investments in software, SaaS, services, Internet, consumer Internet and financial technology, and digital media companies. He joined Accel Management Co, Inc. in 2009. He served as Vice President of Summit Partners LLP. Mr. Sweeney served as an Analyst of William Blair & Company, L.L.C. He was a Principal of North Bridge Growth Equity. He served as an Executive at National Mentor Holdings, Inc. He spent nearly a decade at Summit Partners and North Bridge leading growth investments. He also worked in strategic development at The Mentor Network. He was an Associate at Summit Partners from 2000 to 2003. He served as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at William Blair & Company. He serves as a Director of Invoice2go Corporation, BrowserStack, Transit, LightSpeed Retail Inc., Atlassian, Qualtrics, ModCloth, Squarespace, Gameforge, OzForex, Braintree Payment Solutions, LLC, Xero and 99designs Pty Ltd. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of Grubwithus Inc. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of Qualtrics, LLC. He has been a Director of HootSuite Media, Inc since August 1, 2013. He has been a Director of WyzAnt, Inc. since December 17, 2013. He served as a Director of OzForex Group Limited from November 19, 2010 to September 20, 2013. He served as a Director of ONSITE3 (OnSite E-Discovery, Inc.), Showroomprive.com, SARL and iMakeNews, Inc. He was listed in the Forbes Midas List of 2014. Mr. Sweeney holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 2005 and a B.B.A. in Finance and Business Economics from the University of Notre Dame in 1999.