Jerry Engel

Jerry Engel is a General Partner with Monitor Ventures and brings over 20 years experience and success in high technology entrepreneurship and venture capital. In addition to serving as a partner for Monitor Ventures, Jerry continues to serve as Executive Director of the Haas School’s Entrepreneurship Program, a program he founded in 1991.

Jerry was founder of the Entrepreneurial Services Group at Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young). Clients included Autodesk, Fair Issac Companies and Broderbund. He was also a founding General Partner in Kline Hawkes & Co., a Southern California based venture fund. As General Partner with Kline Hawkes he led investments in a number of successful start-ups including Above Net (IPO) and Transoft Technology Corporation (sold to HP). Jerry was also a founder with Teymour Boutros-Ghali of AllBusiness, a small business portal, which was successfully sold to NBCi.

Jerry has served on the Board of Directors of a number of emerging companies including Maxis Corporation (acquired by EA), MicroNet Technology (acquired by Ampex) and Transoft (acquired by HP). He is a CPA and received his Bachelors degree from Penn State and his Masters from the Wharton school.