Evan Daar is a Partner at Francisco Partners. Based in San Francisco, he joined the firm in 2011. Evan currently serves on the boards of Black Duck, New Relic, Perforce, SmartBear, SonicWall and Sumo Logic. He also previously served on the boards of Discovery Education, Forcepoint, Optanix, and Verifone.

Evan has a B.A. from Columbia University as well as an MBA from Stanford GSB.

He previously worked at McKinsey & Company.