are ready to scale. As experienced investors and board members, TCV provides companies with growth capital, industry expertise, and support in scaling their businesses and executing on their visions.
Since its inception, TCV has successfully taken 65 companies public, often reinvesting at the IPO and continuing to support them as public shareholders. The team has extensive experience advising and supporting companies through the IPO process, and understands how to help companies through varied market conditions and economic cycles. We believe the firm derives unique and differentiated insights thanks to its experience partnering with both private and public market leaders, making TCV a valued partner in our endeavour to find and execute an initial business combination.
As an affiliate of our sponsor, TCV will be providing us with resources and expertise. We will leverage TCV’s investment team’s capabilities, relationships, network, and deal pipeline to support us in the identification and diligence of potential targets for the initial business combination.
Our Management Team
Our management team is led by Jay Hoag (our Chairman of the Board), Woody Marshall and Jake Reynolds Jr. (our Co-CEOs), Ric Fenton (our President), and Erez Elisha (our CFO).
Mr. Hoag co-founded TCV in 1995 and has been a venture capitalist and technology investor for more than 37 years. Prior to founding TCV, he was a Managing Director at Chancellor Capital Management, where he spent more than 12 years as a technology-focused venture capitalist and fund manager. Mr. Hoag currently serves on the board of directors of Electronic Arts, Netflix, Peloton, TripAdvisor, and Zillow, among others. He has been involved in a large number of technology investments, including Altiris, Expedia, Facebook, Fandango, and Groupon. Mr. Hoag received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science degree from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Mr. Marshall joined TCV in 2008 and has been working in the venture capital industry since 1995. He focuses on investments in the FinTech, internet, and digital media & entertainment industries. Prior to joining TCV, Mr. Marshall spent 12 years at Trident Capital, a leading venture capital and private equity firm, where he focused on the payments, internet, and mobile markets. He currently serves on the board of directors of GoFundMe, Newsela, Payoneer, Retail Merchant Services, Sojern, Spotify, and Nerdy (fka Varsity Tutors). Mr. Marshall has been involved in a large number of other technology investments including Airbnb, Dollar Shave Club, Groupon and Netflix. He received a B.A. in Economics from Hamilton College and M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Northwestern University.
Mr. Reynolds joined TCV in 1997 and has been a venture capital and technology investor since 1993. Prior to joining TCV, he was with General Atlantic Partners and a member of the M&A group at Lazard Freres & Co. Mr. Reynolds has extensive investment experience in multiple technology sectors with a primary focus on SaaS software and tech-enabled services industries. He is currently on the board of directors of OneSource Virtual, and Watermark. Mr. Reynolds has been involved with numerous other technology investments including Brightmail, Capella Education Company, Genesys, Global 360, OSIsoft, IQMS, Venafi, Webroot, and Zillow, among others. Mr. Reynolds received an A.B. in Geography from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
Mr. Fenton joined TCV in 2008 and serves as Chief of TCV’s Investment Operations. In this role, Ric oversees TCV’s Legal, Compliance, Capital Markets, and other investment and portfolio support functions, bringing his transactional expertise to bear across all of TCV’s market sectors, advising and guiding deal teams throughout the investment process. He also serves as the firm’s Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer and is responsible for transaction execution, fund formation, partnership matters, compliance and other legal and administrative functions. Prior to joining TCV, Ric was an attorney in the Palo Alto and New York offices of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where he advised leading private equity firms, corporations, and investment banks on a wide range of M&A and securities law matters, including public and private leveraged buyouts, stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, minority co-investments, securities offerings, and PIPE financings. Mr. Fenton received a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law.
Mr. Elisha joined TCV in 2019, bringing more than 20 years of experience of working with global financial institutions. He currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of TCV, leading the firm’s global finance, treasury, valuation, tax, and corporate development functions. Prior to joining TCV, Mr. Elisha was an Executive