Meet Our Team Member

John has more than forty-five years of investment banking experience. He spent thirty-two years at Merrill Lynch, retiring as Vice Chairman of Global Equity Capital Markets. Initially, John served as an equity research analyst covering U.S. publicly held consumer products and retailing companies. During his remaining twenty-five years at Merrill Lynch, he held leadership positions in all areas of Equity Capital Markets, both in New York and London, where he resided for fifteen years. He led transactions raising more than $150 billion in equity, including large, complex, global privatizations in more than twenty countries, such as France Telecom, the largest IPO ever at the time. After retiring from Merrill Lynch, John founded a healthcare technology company, which was sold to a Belgian company in 2012. In addition, John has served as a partner of STJ Advisors, a London based independent equity capital markets advisory firm. John graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. with Honors in American Studies and he attended the New York University, Stern School of Business, where he majored in Management and Marketing.