SWING LINE CAPITAL
Founding Team.
Andy Fishman
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Andy has 20 years of technology private equity experience in the middle market. Prior to co-founding Swing Line, he worked at Vector Capital for 16 years serving as a Managing Director for 10 years. Vector is a technology focused, middle market private equity firm with $4B AUM focused on deep-value / turnarounds.
At Vector, he served on the boards of Teletrac (sold to Danaher), RAE Systems (sold to Honeywell), Allegro (sold to Ion), Saba (sold to Cornerstone), Aspect (merged with Noble, sold to Abry), MarkLogic (sold to Progress Software), Vispero and Riverbed. He began his career at Silver Lake Partners focused on technology private equity and at Goldman Sachs in technology investment banking.
Andy received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
He also serves on the Board of the Hoffman Institute, a personal growth process to help identify negative behaviors, moods, and ways of thinking that developed unconsciously and were conditioned in childhood.
Patrick Dennis
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Patrick Dennis is a technology executive and co-founder Swing Line Capital. Patrick currently serves as Executive Chairman at Avaya, having transitioned from his CEO role after restructuring and repositioning the company as an enterprise software provider.
As Avaya CEO, Patrick focused product and go-to-market strategies on the largest, most complex government and private sector organizations globally. He led the company's AI initiatives, embedding AI capabilities across every aspect of the operation to achieve the efficiencies required to support a $1 billion cost reduction. During his tenure, EBITDA more than doubled, and debt was upgraded as the company became financially durable.
Prior to Avaya, Patrick served as CEO of Venafi, where he drove a company-wide strategy through the company’s sale to CyberArk for $1.5B. He also served as CEO of Guidance Software (sold to OpenText), Aspect Communications (now Alvaria, sold to Abry Partners), and ExtraHop Networks, where he nearly doubled the company’s revenue and earned industry accolades for its thought leadership in Artificial Intelligence.
In addition to his role at Avaya, Patrick serves as Chairman at Ripcord, Board Director at Trace3. He earned a B.S. in Information Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
patrick@swinglinecapital.com