John is a global technology investment veteran. He is known for his financial leadership, with a long career as CFO of IBM, and as Managing Director of SilverLake Partners.                                                                                                           

John served as the President of IBM Asia Pacific, responsible for providing business direction and strategy  across the region. He served as a Vice President and Controller of IBM’s global operations, and was part of the team responsible for the successful reengineering of IBM in the mid-1990s. In his M&A capacity he oversaw the sale of IBM’s PC business to Lenovo, its HDD business to Hitachi, and its purchase of PWC Consulting. John’s final role at IBM was running Global Services, responsible for $60B of revenue and 178,000 employees

In 2005 he joined SilverLake Partners. As Managing Director, John was a member of the investment committee, and a leader of SilverLakes value creation team. After SilverLake, he took Silver Spring Networks public, serving as Vice Chairman and CFO.

John has been on the boards of Hewlett Packard, Avago (Broadcom), Bertelsmann AG, Intelsat, Gartner, and Sabre.

John’s decades at the top of international technology finance brings vast networks and relationships, and direct access to the US market for our successful global ventures.