Leap Minds is a strategic advisory firm, designed to foster partnerships with global markets and fintech businesses. The mission is to achieve significant leaps forward in strategy, operations, and performance. Leveraging John's experience, Leap Minds bridges the gap between vision and execution, driving meaningful value creation.

Responsible for strategic direction, day to day leadership and business performance across distribution, product, marketing and engineering. Partnered with GS investment teams on equities focused market structure strategic investments. Led the rise from #6 to #1 within industry league tables since joining in September of 2016, maintaining #1 rank since 2021 From 2018 to 2023, under John's leadership, revenues doubled while reducing headcount by 25% Board member at IEX Group, Bids Trading, Purestream ATS, and CBOE Equity Advisory CommitteeGlobal Co- Head of Electronic Product: responsible for the strategic direction of global electronic trading products and leadership of product management, execution consulting and engineering research and development functions across Americas, Europe, and Asia. Established and implemented a global product organization, defining structure, first principles and processes across product management, product research, product engineering and execution consulting Oversaw the build, go-to-market and migration of GS next-generation trading platform and product API eco-system Designed and implemented global liquidity strategy, maximizing accessible liquidity, leveraging GS unique principal liquidity and client franchise scale into differentiated product quality Oversaw re-platform and go to market of the US ATS in 2017, ascent from #11 to #2 in the industry rankings by 2021, becoming one of the top 20 trading venues in the world by average daily notional executed Introduced the GS THINK global content brand to help clients navigate shifts and trends in execution, driving thought leadership and building trust Member of Goldman Sachs Execution Standards Committee, Best Execution Committee and Algo and Routing Working Group

Responsible for providing strategic direction, driving financial performance, and overseeing day to day operations across sales, client coverage, product, engineering and program trading. Under John’s leadership, business revenues increased 300 % from 2013 to 2016, catapulting Cowen into industry league tables for the first time By 2016, > 80% of electronic revenues were unique or incremental versus prior year levels Youngest member of the Cowen Equities Operating Leadership Committee

Built the electronic trading franchise post acquisition of ATM. Led Cowen go-to-market strategy to acquire asset manager and hedge fund clients Supervised ATM Service Bureau franchise of banks and broker-dealers

Responsible for financial performance of the company and day to day leadership across sales, client coverage, and client services in addition to management of key client relationships. Member of Executive Management Committee from committee inception to successful acquisition by Cowen Group Hired key personnel, constructed teams and implemented client coverage and services support model to differentiate client experience Developed expertise in broker-neutral hosted and enterprise algorithmic and routing execution technology and execution analytics throughout the trade lifecycle

'04 - '06: Responsible for the commissions, P&L and content of the Consumer Retail Sector'02 - '04: Telecom and Consumer Retail Sector TraderRetained post acquisitions of SoundView Technology Group (2003) and Schwab Soundview Capital Markets (2004)

'01 - '02: Utilities & REIT Sector Trader and SalesTrader for dedicated REIT accounts'00 - '01: Junior Trader on Technology, Media, Telecom team

Graduate Training Program - Equities