Jonathan Tower is a Managing Director at Citron Capital, a global private equity and venture capital firm, where he focuses primarily on Enterprise Software, Consumer Internet, Media, Web Services and Infrastructure investments.

Jonathan began his career in venture capital in 2001.

Previously, as an operating executive, he has served as founding CEO at two successful software companies–one, an industrial parts exchange and marketplace focused in the automotive sector; the other, a leading CRM software company. Earlier in his career, Jonathan was a technology M&A investment banker in the San Francisco Bay Area focusing on Internet  and Software transactions. He has also had tenures as a management consultant with Accenture and Braxton Associates, where he worked with Fortune 100 companies in strategic planning, enterprise software systems development, and on implementing merger and acquisition strategies.

Jonathan holds a dual MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School, and an undergraduate degree from The University of California at Berkeley.

Jonathan appears regularly as a panelist at venture capital and technology industry conferences, and he has contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News, Forbes, and other leading publications.

 Jonathan lives in San Francisco. When he is not accumulating frequent flier miles looking for the next generation of great companies, he can often be found mountain biking in Marin County, skiing in Lake Tahoe, or racing at Infineon, Laguna Seca and other renowned west coast road circuits. Begrudgingly, Jonathan believes the rumor that there hangs a plaque on the wall of Mastercard’s corporate headquarters in upstate New York commemorating the day he took up racing Porsches.

Email Jonathan Tower:  jtower(at)citroncapital(dot)com