Jake Kaldenbaugh

VP, Corporate Development and Investments

2024 - Current

Global head of corporate development and strategic investments. Lead M&A strategy and execution for global leader in cloud computing management to accelerate the expansion of the company's enterprise value.

Managing Partner

2023 - 2024

Advise founders, ceos and VCs in creating value in emerging technology growth categories by creating intersections between startups and large platform companies. Identify, validate and capture growth through the application of new technologies and enterprise problem spaces.

Managing Director, Global Palo Alto Networks Practice Lead

2022 - 2023

Managing Director, Global Venture Investments

2020 - 2022

Responsible for sourcing strategic venture investments and managing 50+ current venture investments across Accenture’s global solutions businesses. Revamped Accenture's venture investment program to focus on early-stage investments through a proprietary thematic driven sourcing strategy. Executed 30 early-stage investments across industries, themes, geographies. Helped to found and execute the Black Founders Development program designed to uplift black entrepreneurs. Developed proprietary portfolio management metrics and process to provide prudent yet contextual portfolio management. Managed direct and indirect teams to ensure quality portfolio execution and review.

Board Observer - Various Venture-Backed Portfolio Companies

2020 - 2022

Acted as Accenture's board representative for various Accenture portfolio companies to ensure strategic engagement and visibility. Assisted boards and management teams with new rounds, corporate actions, potential strategic transaction planning, and GTM expansion within Accenture.

Technology M&A Banker

2016 - 2019

Senior banking leader at GrowthPoint Technology Partners, an emerging growth investment bank that helps growth firms with great technology and products realize strategic value. Technology markets covered closely: Enterprise SaaS, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Serverless, Microservices, API Management, Continuous Testing, Development Platforms, Low Code, Analytics, Big Data and other domains.

Vice President, Corporate Development

2013 - 2015

Responsible for working with Business Unit and Corporate Executives to identify, evaluate and execute superior inorganic (M&A) growth strategies in the Enterprise Systems Management, Cloud, Mobility, Security and DevOps markets. Covered the global Silicon Valley emerging startup ecosystem to develop strategic relationships with startups relevant to current and future strategic domains. Led the identification and acquisition of the following companies: - Layer 7: Advanced API Security Gateway which helped CA achieve Gartner MQ Leadership in the API Management sector - Nolio: Leading Application Release Automation vendor based in Israel - Replay Software: Talent and IP acquisition of a leading software debugging DVR platform - Rally Software: Acquisition of the market-leading Agile Management SaaS platform (public company) - Paragon Global Technologies: Acquisition of leading mainframe analytics platform - Grid-Tools: Acquisition of an innovative Enterprise Test Data Management and Automated Test Design platform based in the UK - Identified and led the strategic market analysis for Veracode and BlazeMeter as part of the DevOps strategy

Advisor, Corporate Development

2011 - 2013

I work in CA's Corporate Development team to help identify great, strategically-relevant businesses that will help us achieve our corporate objectives across the breadth of our business lines: Service Assurance, Cloud Computing, Virtualization & Automation, Mainframe Computing, Service & Portfolio Management, Data Management and associated Service & Consulting.

Director, Strategy & New Business Development

2006 - 2010

Responsible for driving new growth opportunities for NEC's U.S. IT Systems (servers & storage) Division with strategic partners and into new market opportunities. Areas of interest: Datacenter, Virtualization, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Cloud Computing, Private Clouds, Inter-Clouds, Real-Time Web, Messaging

Sr. Analyst - Wireless

2001 - 2002

Launched Unstrung.com's premium research offering, Unstrung Insider (fka Wireless Oracle). Responsible for analyzing wireless industry trends and companies. Authored several reports on wireless carriers, international wireless carrier competition, wireless carrier spending, advanced wireless networking technologies and WiFi chip manufacturers.

Associate, Tech M&A

2000 - 2001

Executed M&A transactions for emerging public and private technology companies.

Sr. Consultant

1997 - 2000

Perfomed middle-market M&A across all industries. Responsible for leading deal teams and performing all activities associated with successfully completing M&A assignments. Also worked in the distressed company consulting group to assist companies in financial distress or bankruptcy situations.