Jon Anderson, PARTNER
Jon is a founding partner of Ignition. He invests in enterprise data and applications companies. Jon represents Ignition as director on the boards of Full Capture Solutions, MarketRange, Jobster and N'Site Solutions. Jon is a former board member of Wildseed which was acquired by AOL.Prior to Ignition, Jon spent nine years at Microsoft Corporation in several strategic roles, advising the company's executive management on overall business strategy, guiding such key issues as enterprise licensing and pricing, financing and P&L management. Most recently he led a team responsible for development and execution of Microsoft's volume licensing programs, an $8 billion business, negotiations of licensing agreements with Microsoft's largest customers and the enhancement of core product business and licensing models and creation of business models for emerging products.
Jon also served as General Manager of Worldwide Business Strategy for Steve Ballmer and as Corporate Controller. Jon led the creation of the company's current P&L, measurement and competitive reporting systems. Jon led efforts that made changes to business models for core products that lead to multi billion dollar profit contributions. Jon led or was a core member of the teams leading company acquisitions including the company's first email product, Microsoft Mail, FoxPro, Visio and the company's proposed merger with Intuit.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Jon was a CPA and Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche, where he served as an advisor to companies ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to new technology start-ups.
Jon attended the University of Oregon and received his degree in business administration from Central Washington University.