John has been a founder or early employee of four technology startups, all of which achieved successful exits. John Founded BCN which was sold to T-Mobile for $140mm. John was an early employee at wireless startup Omnipoint (now T-Mobile) and WNP Communications (sold to Craig McCaw) as well as co-founder and CEO of ShopSavvy which was sold to Purch Media. ShopSavvy had over 50mm downloads and was one of the first Android apps. ShopSavvy was featured on GMA, CNN, CNBC, Fox, the Today Show, and Anderson Cooper and use Machine Learning - AI to drive product recommendations.- Partnerships. Experience in scale inducing partnerships in financial services such as Capital One, retailers such as Best Buy, mobile operators such as T-Mobile and technology players such as Google, Apple and Facebook.- Organic Marketing. ShopSavvy reached over 50mm downloads without spending on customer acquisitions. - Leadership and Talent Acquisition. Recruited, led and managed leading mobile and backend engineering teams team size in both front end and back end software as well as product. - Mobile monetization innovation. Took revenue at ShopSavvy to $3mm in revenue in one year at premium eCPM rates of $500 using innovations in hyper targeting, creative and mobile advetising- Highly complex situation experience. Restructuring, complex legal shareholder situations and re-positioning for growth.John also has several years’ experience in venture capitalfor an institutional firm with over $1 billion under management and as an individual angel investor. John has invested and worked with companies from sectors in consumer applications, AI, telecommunications equipment, and wireless service providers. As a strong believer in the importance of public service, John spent several years in economic policy for the White House and the US ITC. John earned an MBA from Columbia University in New York City. John's B.A. is in economics and international studies.