Andrew Jacobson

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Biography

Mr. Andrew Jacobson served as Managing Director at Vector Capital. He joined Vector Capital in 2013 and is a Managing Director responsible for developing direct lending opportunities within Vector's credit strategies. Prior to joining Vector, Andy spent 13 years as a Managing Director with MCG Capital, a publicly-traded specialty finance firm and business development company (BDC), where he executed debt and equity transactions in the media, technology, business services and other industries. At MCG Capital, Andy was responsible for originating direct investments, overseeing portfolio companies and managing exits. In this role, he oversaw the formation and operation of MCG's subsidiary SBIC fund, Solutions Capital I, L.P. While at MCG and Solutions Capital, he worked with over 45 lower middle market portfolio companies. Prior to MCG Capital, Andy was an executive in the publishing/information industry, serving as President of Post Newsweek TechMedia Group, Inc. (a business/technology publishing unit of The Washington Post Company) and as a senior executive in several other firms. Earlier in his career, Andy founded his own start-up telecom/technology publishing company. Andy earned a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University.