Brian Decker
Partner at Francisco Partners, Infrastructure Software and Security Investor
Ellis '00
Partner at Francisco Partners, Infrastructure Software and Security Investor
Brian grew up in Cobble Hill and after attending Brentwood College as a day student and graduating in 2000, Brian attended the University of Waterloo in Ontario receiving a BASc in Computer Engineering in 2005, and an M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2006. As part of his undergraduate degree at Waterloo, Brian completed a number of internships as part of Waterloo’s co-op program as a software developer and in product marketing roles for software and semiconductor companies.
After graduating from Cornell, Brian joined McKinsey and Company in their Los Angeles office as a management consultant working primarily in their technology vertical across a variety of strategy and operations projects traveling extensively for clients in North America, Europe and Asia.
After McKinsey, Brian joined Francisco Partners in 2008 which is a technology-focused private equity firm which has approximately $25 billion of assets under management. He is a Partner of the firm and leads their infrastructure software and enterprise security investing activities. Over the past 12 years Brian has executed a variety of growth equity investments, leveraged buyouts and mergers and acquisitions of software companies and has been a past or present board member of 13 companies ranging in size from $50 million to $1 billion of revenue. He is currently a board member of Beyondtrust, Forcepoint, Perforce Software, Quest Software, Smartbear Software, and SonicWALL.
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