Jacques Benkoski

Jacques Benkoski joined USVP in 2005 and became a Venture Partner in 2009. Jacques focuses on fostering USVP position as an active investor in the Israeli market. He is working with several USVP companies such as BPT， Factery， Kilopass， Qnovo， and Trusteer. Previously， he has advised several portfolio companies including ClearShape， Dune Networks， LightSpeed， and Yoomba， and served as executive chairman of Certess and Synfora.

Before joining USVP， Jacques was President and CEO of Monterey Design Systems from 1999 until its acquisition by Synopsys （SNPS） in 2004. Prior to that， he founded and served as General Manager of the European subsidiary of Epic Design Technology （EPIC） and became Vice President of European Sales following its acquisition by Synopsys. Earlier in his career， Jacques held a number of research and management positions at IMEC in Leuven， Belgium， at IBM's Scientific Center in Haifa， Israel and STMicroelectronics in Grenoble， France.

Fluent in English， French and Hebrew， Jacques holds a B.Sc. in computer engineering from Technion Israel Institute of Technology， and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and has published over 30 technical papers.