John is Chief Administrative Officer of The Silverfern Group and has extensive business experience in corporate finance, general management and marketing in both start-up and best-in-class organizations.

Prior to joining The Silverfern Group, John spent eight years at American Express Company, where he was most recently Vice President, Marketing, for American Express Brokerage, a unit of American Express Financial Advisors. While at American Express, John developed his marketing skills in the Corporate Services and Small Business Services Divisions, selling travel and expense management solutions to small businesses. He has also served as Director of Marketing at Qtopics, Inc., a start-up online polling company and as Vice President/General Manager for a division of PartMiner, Inc., an electronics component distributor.

Prior to graduate school, John worked at Smith Barney, Harris Upham Europe, Ltd, in London where he gained experience advising clients on cross-border investments and general industrial transactions. He also worked for Smith Barney in New York where he completed financing and advisory transactions in the specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, health care, pollution control, real estate, and oil and gas industries.

John is a Registered Securities Principal and earned his Master of Business Administration Degree from the Harvard Business School. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Colgate University.