Jeff Horing
Managing Director

Jeff Horing is a Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners which he co-founded in 1995. Under his leadership Insight has become the leading private equity firm focused on growth investments in software and internet businesses, with $3 billion under management. Mr. Horing’s areas of focus include mobile, online gaming, data, infrastructure and internet software. Mr. Horing is a former member of the board of directors of Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird Co.), Capella University (NASDAQ: CPLA), CTSpace (acquired by Sword Group), Beechwood Data Systems (acquired by The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group), Greenfield Online (NASDAQ: SRVY, acquired by Quadrangle Group), Hitwise (acquired by Experian Group Limited), IAG Research (acquired by The Nielsen Company), Promira Software (acquired by Manugistics) and SLP Infoware (acquired by Gemplus).

Mr. Horing currently serves on the board of directors of Datacore Software (storage virtualization), GFI (security & messaging), Jagex Ltd (online gaming), Shunra Software (WAN emulation) and Solarwinds (network monitoring).

Prior to founding Insight, Jeff Horing was a key member of the technology investing team at E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co. Earlier in his career he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Capital Markets group.

Mr. Horing started his career with an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He has dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering and Wharton School, where he graduated with high honors and Phi Beta Kappa.