John Hughes

John is co-founder and general partner at Swift Ventures. He has been a successful entrepreneur, inventor and product leader for two decades.

While completing his Berkeley MBA in 2007, John built an early version of video ad platform, TubeMogul, that won the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition. Throughout the next decade — from John’s co-founding of TubeMogul to the company’s rapid growth, IPO (Nasdaq: TUBE) and acquisition by Adobe — John’s unique blend of leadership and high standards for creativity and execution enabled a blistering pace of innovation.

John lives in Lafayette with hie wife and their three children. An avid woodworker and cyclist, John loves creating, learning and exploring.