Don Dixon ^{Ultimate Decision-Maker}

Co-Founder at Forgepoint Capital

Current Job Duration: 2 mos (until March 2026)

HEADLINE:
ForgePoint Capital

PERSONAL SUMMARY:
Don Dixon is a Co-Founder and Senior Advisor of ForgePoint Capital which is a spin-out of Trident Capital. He is also a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Trident Capital. From 1988 to 1993, Don was Co-President of Partech International, a private equity fund manager associated with Banque Paribas. From 1983 to 1988, he was a Managing Director of Alex. Brown & Sons. Earlier in his career, Don was a Vice President of Morgan Stanley & Co. and a Senior Account Officer at Citibank, N.A.
Don serves as a director of Amprius and Verituity.
Don’s past directorships include 2Checkout (acquired by Verifone), Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), Anasazi Inc. (acquired by Pegasus Solutions Inc.), Anitian (acquired by Arkenstone), BankAmerica Merchant Services, Inc. (BPI), Bishop Fox, BlueStar Solutions (acquired by ACS), Bytemobile (acquired by Citrix), Converge, CSG Systems International, Inc (CSGS), Cybercube, Epicor Software Corporation (EPIC), Epoch Partners (acquired by Goldman Sachs), Evolving Systems, Inc. (EVOL), Infotrieve (acquired by CCC), InfoUSA, Inc. (IUSA), Merchant e-Solutions (acquired by Cielo), Pegasus Systems, Inc. (PEGS), Qualys (QLYS), Signio (acquired by Verisign), SolCyber, Sphere, SureFire, Sygate Technologies (acquired by Symantec), Unison Software, Inc. (acquired by IBM) and XRS Corp (acquired by OmniTracs)
Don earned his B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He served as a Lieutenant in the U.S.Navy. Mr. Dixon serves on the Advisory Board of the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science, is a director of the Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and was a member of the Board of Advisors to the Naval Postgraduate School.

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EDUCATION:
School: Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Degree: MBA
Activities: None

School: Princeton University
Degree: BSE, Aerospace and mechanical engineering
Activities: None

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