Arthur Patterson founded Accel with Jim Swartz in 1983.

Arthur has helped management teams develop companies into market-defining leaders for five decades. As the lead investor, he has helped management teams develop their companies into market-defining leaders.

IPOs of such companies include: Actuate, AMCC (Applied Micro Circuits Corporation), MetroPCS, Portal Software, UUnet/MCI-WorldCom and Veritas.

Private exits include: Arcot Systems (acquired by CA), Coremetrics (acquired by IBM), Counterpane (acquired by BT), NextG (acquired by Crown Castle), Rapt (acquired by Mircosoft) and Savi Technology (acquired by Lockheed Martin).

Arthur currently serves on the boards of several private companies including: Centrify, Integral Development, IronPlanet, Krux Digital, NewlineNoosh and Poplicus.

Prior to co-founding Accel, Arthur was a general partner of Adler & Company. His career in venture capital began at Citicorp Venture Capital. He also managed a fund of publicly traded equities while at Citicorp. Arthur earlier worked in Washington for the International office of the U.S. Treasury Department - International Monetary, Trade and Development Policy.

Arthur served as the president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and as director of the National Venture Capital Association.

Arthur graduated from Harvard and lives in San Francisco with his wife and their four children.

Julie Blanc