Jackie is a partner with Chicago Ventures and heads up their Austin presence. She focuses on vertical SaaS and marketplaces.

Prior to joining Chicago Ventures, Jackie was a principal at Hyde Park Venture Partners, working with portfolio companies such as RoadSync, Podchaser, Fixer, FactoryFix, and PartySlate. Before that, she worked at Silver Spring Networks (now Itron), an IoT company for critical infrastructure, driving development and pilot projects for emerging smart city technology. She began her career as a consultant at Accenture in the Business & Technology practice, focused on ERP (enterprise resource planning) software and SaaS enablement projects.

She is also a member of the board of directors for Chicago:Blend, Starting Block Madison, and Venture Atlanta. She is also a coach at the Polsky Center.

Jackie holds a BS with honors in general engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA with honors from Chicago Booth.