A financial services executive, John began his career at the New York Mercantile Exchange where he was the youngest VP in company history. John spearheaded the Exchange’s breakthrough international partnership – the first ever Middle Eastern based energy exchange. The Dubai Mercantile Exchange represented a major milestone in global finance, namely, the adoption of Western capitalist principles to guide pricing for crude oil.

John attended Williams College, Oxford University and Harvard Business School and has been a guest lecturer for Insead University. He has keynoted over 30 global events on such topics as Negotiation, Energy, Hedge Funds and other business and global economic/political issues and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Television, Barron’s, and many other financial and non-financial media. In 2007, John's story was the focus of the NY Times Bestseller, “Rigged, the True Story of an Ivy League Kid who Changed the World of Oil,” by Ben Mezrich.