Jeffrey T. Diehl

As a partner with Adams Street, Jeffrey Diehl invests in venture and growth-oriented companies in the software, IT-enabled business services, and consumer internet and media sectors.

Adams Street Partners is one of the largest managers of private equity for institutional investors. They are an employee-owned private equity firm with the goal of generating exceptional investment returns. Adams Street Partners operates as one cohesive global team, integrating expertise in three disciplines: primary, secondary, and direct investments managing over $22 billion in committed capital for institutional investors.

In addition to serving on the Q2 Board of Directors, Mr. Diehl serves on the boards of directors of ArrowEye Solutions, Paylocity, Peerless Network, SnagAJob, Thought Equity Motion, and WhiteFence. He is a board observer at Spiceworks, Dolex, and MagicJack. Mr. Diehl also a former board member at MxLogic (bought by McAfee) and Stratavia (bought by Hewlett-Packard). He has been involved with Adams Street’s investments in Adams Harris, American Wholesale Insurance, Ancestry.com, BirdsEye, CBeyond, FiftyOne, Gevity HR,Kappa Smurfit, KPG Ventures, Setanta, Scientific Protein Labs, and TicketsNow (bought by Ticketmaster).

Before joining Adams Street in 2000, Mr. Diehl served as a principal for The Parthenon Group, a Boston-based strategy, consulting, and principal investing firm with Bain Consulting roots and worked with Brinson Partners/UBS Global Asset Management.

Jeffrey holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BS from Cornell State University.