John Powell

Mr. Powell is a renowned tech investor, having co-founded Integral Capital Partners (one of the first technology crossover funds) with Roger McNamee in 1991 in partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Integral pioneered the concept of “crossover” or “lifecycle investing.” In 1999, Integral Capital Partners co-founded Silver Lake Partners, a multi-billion dollar private equity fund focused on large scale, control-oriented transactions in technology and related growth businesses.

Prior to Integral, Mr. Powell spent nine years at T. Rowe Price in various research and portfolio management capacities. He has served on the boards of Learnist and Encell, and as a Trustee of the Arts and Sciences Foundation of the University of North Carolina. Mr. Powell is a CFA, and holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.