John is a 25-year investment officer at Manulife, a member of Manulife’s Global Leadership Team, and sits on Manulife’s investment committee for our $400 billion global life insurance / General Account portfolio.
John’s investment role includes:
$220 billion of public bond and private placement debt investing for our General Account customers,
$30 billion of infrastructure equity for clients around the world, where he is the President of our Infrastructure Equity program in GWAM Private Markets.
Prior to joining Manulife in 2001, John worked for ten years as an infrastructure lending officer from the New York and London offices of The Chase Manhattan Bank.
John has been actively engaged in gender inclusion initiatives at Manulife for 15 years, and in racial inclusion work for five years:
• Acted as a Mentor in VersaFi’s Toronto finance community professional mentorship program.
• Was a host and facilitator for the Manulife’s Boston Day of Racial Justice and Reconciliation employee conversation. John is also the executive advisor for Boston’s chapter of VIBE (Valuing the Inclusion of Black Experiences) employee club.
• Externally, John is on the board of the YW Boston, whose mission is to empower women and eliminate racism, with a focus on the intersectional challenges faced by black and brown women.
Before working in the private sector, John served as an Intelligence Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. He has also been an executive sponsor of our US Veterans and Military Families club.
John holds an MBA from Georgetown University in Washington DC, and received his BA in Economics from The University of Chicago.
John speaks French, Serbo-Croatian, German, Spanish, and Russian at an intermediate level, and would not be mistaken for a native speaker in any of these languages.
