B.Sc. & Ph.D (dual programme) Physics & Astrophysics
John is the CEO and principal founder of XL TechGroup and is responsible for the overall management of the company, with a particular focus on corporate strategy and mission as well as defining unmet market needs and leading XL TechGroup's many corporate and technology partnerships. John is a serial entrepreneur and inventor who has founded and successfully grown eleven technology companies within the past 25 years.
In addition to those companies developed by XL TechGroup, he has also been on the board of a significant number of public and private entrepreneurial companies. John has authored business theories surrounding the development of successful technology enterprises, and lectures to business schools throughout the USA. These theories were put into practice at XL Vision's enterprise factory co-founded by John in 1993 and are currently being employed at XL TechGroup which he was the principal founder of in 2002. John has served in a number of technical and management positions in the private sector, including chairmanship of two public companies. Previously, he was a professor at the universities of Maryland and Arizona, and a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina. John has also been a consultant to the US and various European governments, and was a national research council fellow at NASA.
John holds numerous patents and has been published extensively in refereed scientific journal papers. He earned a B.Sc in Physics and Astrophysics at Michigan State University and a Ph.D in the astrophysics/physics dual programme from the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory.