Jane Swift is a General Partner at Arcadia Partners, the leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on the education industry. Swift serves on the board of portfolio company, Teachscape, a private entity providing on-line and instructor led professional development services to Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade teachers and educators. Swift lends unique insights to Arcadia’s family of companies and analyzes education trends to inform the fund’s investment strategy.

Prior to joining Arcadia, Swift worked for fifteen years in government beginning her career as an aide to a state legislator. In 1991 she was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, becoming the youngest woman to serve in that body. In 1998, she was elected Lieutenant Governor and in 2001 she became Massachusetts’ first woman Governor. She was the first woman Governor in Massachusetts and the first Governor in the country to give birth (to twin girls) while serving in office. During her tenure in public service, the Governor focused on excellence in public education, economic development and fiscal discipline, and improvements to the state’s children’s protective services.

Swift serves on the board of WellCare Health Plans, Inc., and is also a member of several not-for-profit boards including The Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, The Republican Majority for Choice, the WISH List, and Landmark Volunteers. She is active in her community, serving as the Treasurer for the Williamstown Cooperative Nursery School, as a board member on the Williamstown Elementary School Endowment, and on the Community Outreach board for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.

Swift, a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, has received six honorary doctorates, and has held fellowships at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and at Williams College.

Swift resides on her family farm in Williamstown with her husband, Charles (Chuck) T. Hunt, III and their three daughters, Elizabeth (age 6), Lauren (age 4) and Sarah (age 4).