John Swainson

John Swainson

John Swainson has been President of the Software Division of Dell Inc since February 2012. Prior to that he served on as a director on a number of public company boards and worked as a senior adviser for Silver Lake, a technology oriented private equity firm. From 2004 – 2009 he served as CEO of CA Technologies Inc, a Fortune 500 software company based in New York, and prior to that he had a series of Executive positions at IBM Corp, in New York and Toronto. He currently sits on the board of Visa Inc, and is on the Computer Science and Telecommunications board of the National Academies of Science and Engineering. He and his wife Linda live in Austin Texas.

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