John has over 20 years experience in industry and project finance, nearly all that time directly or indirectly involved with financial modeling. He graduated from Princeton University with a BSc in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and worked for a manufacturing and venture capital firm for six years before graduating from Harvard Business School and joining Bechtel Enterprises in 1992. In 1995 Bechtel co-founded InterGen, an independent power producer. John transferred to the new company at its inception as a Director in its finance group.
In 1999 John co-founded F1F9, a financial modeling services company that focused initially on training and soon grew to supporting organizations in numerous aspects of modeling. As well as co-developing F1F9’s approach to financial modeling, John was F1F9’s principal instructor and led the development of proprietary software used for checking models.
A combination of John’s industry knowledge, technical know-how, and accessible teaching style made his financial modeling training courses extremely popular. John continues delivering courses for Financial Mechanics as its principal instructor.