John Drew

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Mr. John Drew serves as General Partner & Senior Advisor at TCV. He joined TCV in 2002. He serves as Board Member at TechStyle Fashion Group. He has over 20 years of operational, financial, and technical experience, including leadership positions at several global technology companies. Before joining TCV, he served as one of four CEOs in the Office of the Chairman at Lucent Technologies. He joined Lucent when the company acquired International Network Services (NASDAQ: INSS), where he served as President and CEO. During his five years at INS, revenues profitably grew from $7 million to $440 million, and the company's employee base increased from 56 to 2,300, establishing INS as the largest and fastest-growing network consulting and software company in the world. Prior to joining INS, he was Vice President and General Manager at Unisys Corporation. He began his business career as a sales consultant for CF Software Corporation after serving as a Captain in the United States Army. He is on the board of directors of OneSource Virtual. Prior investments he has been involved with include BeVocal (acquired by Nuance Communications), Capella Education Company (NASDAQ: CPLA), Dermstore Beauty Group (acquired by Target), EmbanetCompass (acquired by Pearson), Fiberlink Communications (acquired by IBM), Global360 (acquired by OpenText), Origin Healthcare Solutions (acquired by the Gores Group), Penson Worldwide (NASDAQ: PNSN), Redback Networks (acquired by Ericsson), TechStyle, Triversity (acquired by SAP Canada), and Webtone Technologies (acquired by Fidelity Information Services). He holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an M.S. degree in Business Policy from Columbia University.