John is an entrepreneurial business leader, corporate director, and General Counsel with 30 years of success in a range of organisations—from serving as the Senate-confirmed General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, and as the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of a fast-growing $3 billion division of a publicly traded global defence contractor, to building the legal function at an influential think tank from scratch—all grounded in 13 years of broad experience as a mergers and acquisitions and commercial transactions associate and partner in a major international law firm. He is also a former Associate Counsel to the President of the United States.
