Silver Lake Sumeru, the middle market arm of Menlo Park, Calif., private equity firm Silver Lake, named John Brennan managing director.

"His significant software and services operating skills, combined with his transaction and investment experience, are a great match for us and will augment and compement the capabilities of our group," said Ajay Shah, managing director of Silver Lake Sumeru.

Brennan, 43 years old, comes from Adobe Systems where he was senior vice president. Brennan had put in earlier stints at Hewlett-Packard, Accenture and Brown Brothers Harriman.