SWaN Investors is comprised of principals Fredrick D. Schaufeld, Clifford A. White and Anthony P. Nader. SWaN has 20 widely diversified investments, including the Washington Nationals Baseball Club. Prior to starting SWaN, the group built NEW Corporation, a unit of NEW Asurion Corporation. NEW, founded in 1983, is the world's leading consumer product warranty administrator. Schaufeld is the founder and chairman; White was the former CFO; and Nader is the current CEO. Concurrent with his employment at NEW, Schaufeld was a founder of the Service Contract Industry Council (SCIC) trade association and with his wife, Karen Schaufeld, authored its first model law, a derivation of which was adopted by most states.

Prior to NEW, Schaufeld worked in the live talent industry; White, a CPA, worked in public accounting and Nader worked in banking and insurance. The three are involved in many charitable organizations including Venture Philanthropy Partners; Fight for Children; the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy; Loudoun Country Day School, where Schaufeld is board chair; the Inova Health System Foundation, where Nader is the most recent board chair and a current member of the Inova Health System Board; and St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, where White is treasurer. White is also on the board of the Community Foundation for Montgomery County, where he is a founder and co-chair of the Neighbors in Need Montgomery Fund. Schaufeld and Nader are members of the Young Presidents' Organization. Schaufeld and White are graduates of Lehigh University. Nader graduated John Carroll University and received an MBA from Case Western Reserve. All three are married with children in the Washington suburbs.