Bio

Mr. John Swainson (Executive Partner) was previously the president of the Dell Software group. He was hired in February 2012 by Michael Dell to create and run an enterprise software division inside of Dell Inc. Prior to joining Dell, he was a senior advisor to a large technology focused private equity firm, and before that served as CEO and Director of CA Inc., a Fortune 500 enterprise software company from early 2005 to the end of 2009. Before his time at CA Inc., John worked for IBM Corp for over 26 years, where he held various management positions in the United States and Canada, including for seven years as the General Manager of the WebSphere Middleware Division, a business he founded in 1997. Mr. Swainson also ran the IBM worldwide software sales organization, and held a number of senior engineering, marketing and sales management roles. Mr. Swainson is Executive Chairman of Travelport and Equiniti, and sits on the boards of Schneider National, Midis Group, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). He was formerly on the boards of AllClearID, Stratus Technologies, Intralinks, Broadcom Inc., Cadence Design Systems, Assurant, SecureKey Inc. and Serena Software, where he was the Chairman.