John Swainson

Executive Partner

Mr. John Swainson is an Executive Partner at October Capital. He currently serves as Executive Chairman of Travelport and Equiniti, and sits on the boards of Schneider National, Midis Group, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

Prior Experience

Mr. Swainson was previously President of the Dell Software group, having been hired in February 2012 by Michael Dell to create and run an enterprise software division inside 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., Mr. Swainson worked at IBM Corp for over 26 years, holding various management positions in the United States and Canada, including seven years as General Manager of the WebSphere Middleware Division, a business he founded in 1997. He also ran the IBM worldwide software sales organization and held a number of senior engineering, marketing, and sales management roles.
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 Chairman.

October Capital was formed in 2026. Any reference to the date on which an individual joined October Capital, or to the length of that individual’s tenure, experience, or service with October Capital, includes time the individual spent at Siris Capital Group, LLC, an affiliate of October Capital.