ABOUT JOHN
This book explores the powerful intersection between wealth and meaning, drawing on years of experience, hard-earned lessons, and quiet moments of reflection.
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John is Co-CEO and Managing Partner at Sovereign’s Capital, an investment firm, with strategies in public equities, private equity, and venture capital. He has prior professional experience at McKinsey & Company, Invesco, and Bridgewater Associates, among others. He serves on the boards of PROSPR Aligned, The Wonder Project, Everest Brand Group, and Vermeer Mountain West.
He’s active in the community, with current or prior experience on the boards of Berry College, the DeKalb County School System, the Georgia Student Finance Commission, the Georgia Charter Schools Association, and the Georgia Independent College Association. He’s been recognized as a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, as one of both Georgia Trend’s and the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “40 Under 40,” and as a Young Leader with the American Swiss Foundation.
A frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review. John and his work has been featured in Forbes, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Fox News, and the LA Times among other publications.
He’s previously published Miracles (Trouvaille Press, 2023), The HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose, Passion & Purpose, and How to Argue Like Jesus (Crossway, 2009). His new book, Good Money, releases from Harvard Business Review Press this year. A frequent public speaker, John has addressed hundreds of audiences on college campuses, at conferences, and for corporations and non-profits.
John is a summa cum laude graduate of Berry College, where he was student commencement speaker. He’s an MBA graduate with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he was Class Day Speaker and a Dean’s Award Winner for leadership and service. And he’s an MPA graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a George Fellow and a Zuckerman Fellow.
John lives in Atlanta with his wife Jackie and their four children.
