John Cannon

Founding Partner at Spring Rock Capital

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 1 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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We are building the most advanced sensing and Electronic Warfare backbone, giving drones, unmanned platforms, ground stations, naval assets, and maneuvering forces the resilience to operate confidently under modern threats. Our software-defined ODIN platform fuses breakthrough signal processing with edge AI on off-the-shelf hardware, delivering full spectrum awareness - detecting, classifying, and geolocating threats while turning congested RF environments into real-time, actionable intelligence across commercial, industrial, and defense domains. www.r2-wireless.com
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Dec 2025
We are building the most advanced sensing and Electronic Warfare backbone, giving drones, unmanned platforms, ground stations, naval assets, and maneuvering forces the resilience to operate confidently under modern threats. Our software-defined ODIN platform fuses breakthrough signal processing with edge AI on off-the-shelf hardware, delivering full spectrum awareness - detecting, classifying, and geolocating threats while turning congested RF environments into real-time, actionable intelligence across commercial, industrial, and defense domains. www.r2-wireless.com
2009
Founding Partner
Aug 2009
Spring Rock Capital is a Private Equity and Venture Capital investor founded in 2009 to focus on recurring revenue business models in security, software, and technology-enabled business services; and niche manufacturing and service businesses. Building on the Founding Partners combined operating and investment track record, Spring Rock Capitals aim is to partner with outstanding executives in leading companies within industries we know well. Through relationships with a diverse range of Limited Partners, our investment focus includes the following parameters: Transaction Size of $25-250MM, EBITDA of $3-20MM, and Equity Commitments of $5-50MM.
2005
Investment Analyst
Oct 2005
Silver Point is a leading global credit investing firm. With a dedicated team of more than 340 employees, Silver Point oversees $37 billion in assets across a comprehensive credit platform that includes direct lending, liquid performing credit, and special situations investment strategies. Silver Point has invested successfully across multiple credit cycles since its founding in 2002, deploying more than $155 billion in capital to date. Over the past two decades, the firm has been committed to generating alpha and effectively managing risk on behalf of its investors through a unified culture defined by excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement. By consistently delivering innovative solutions to meet the needs of its business partners and investors, Silver Point has earned a reputation as a trusted and creative industry leader. Silver Point was founded and is today led by Ed Mulé and Bob O’Shea, former partners at Goldman Sachs who founded and built Goldman’s direct lending business, global bank loan and Asian special situation businesses, and led its high yield bond, CLO and special situations investing businesses.
2003
Vice President
Jun 2003
American Capital, Ltd. (Nasdaq:ACAS) is a publicly traded private equity firm and global asset manager. American Capital, both directly and through its global asset management business, originates, underwrites and manages investments in middle market private equity, leveraged finance, real estate, energy & infrastructure and structured products. American Capital manages $22 billion of assets, including assets on its balance sheet and fee earning assets under management by affiliated managers, with $86 billion of total assets under management (including levered assets). American Capital and its affiliates invest from $10 million to $600 million per company in North America and €10 million to €300 million per company in Europe. As a publicly traded company, American Capital offers shareholders an opportunity to invest in privately held middle market companies through ownership of its stock. Since its August 1997 IPO, American Capital and the funds it manages have invested approximately $37 billion in over 730 portfolio companies. Our diverse portfolio is invested in virtually every industry sector. We have approximately 90 investment professionals in 8 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. American Capital, through an asset management portfolio company, manages three public companies American Capital Agency Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC), American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: MTGE) and American Capital Senior Floating, Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACSF) with approximately $11 billion of total net book value.
1999
Associate
Jun 1999
Based in Chicago, Waud Capital Partners is a leading growth-oriented private equity firm. WCP seeks to partner with strong management teams to build market-leading companies within the healthcare and software/technology industries. Since its founding in 1993, Waud Capital has successfully completed more than 480 investments, including platform companies and follow-on opportunities.
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