Jim Breyer, Director

Accel Partners

At Accel, Mr. Breyer has been responsible for more than twenty-five investments in companies that successfully completed public offerings or mergers. These include Actuate, Agile Software, Centillion (acquired by Bay Networks), Centrum (acquired by 3Com), Claremont, Collabra (acquired by Netscape), Corsair (acquired by Lightbridge Communications), Foundry Networks, Hyperion Solutions (formerly Arbor Software), Lightspan/Plato Learning, Macromedia, Microprose, Motive, Narrative (acquired by @Home), RealNetworks, RedBack Networks, Synopsys, and Walmart.com. Recent mergers include Alphablox with IBM and Groove Networks with Microsoft.

In addition to his involvement with a number of private companies and many academic and industry associations, Mr. Breyer currently sits on the Board of Directors at RealNetworks and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., where he is the Chairman of the Strategic Planning and Finance Committee. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. and from Harvard University with an M.B.A. where he was named a Baker Scholar.

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