John has had a 25-year career in the leisure, entertainment, and real estate industries. His responsibilities include oversight of the firm’s museum and cultural attractions practice, and management of a variety of assignments in the attractions, resorts, cultural, and entertainment retail areas.
Over his decades of history in the business, John has consulted to many of the leisure and entertainment industry’s leading companies, U.S. and foreign governments, major cultural and financial institutions, and golf, hotel, and real estate developers. He has directed assignments for The Walt Disney Company, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Whitney Museum, the University of Texas, Warner Bros., Bear Stearns, LEGO, The Tussaud’s Group, NASA, Universal Studios, and numerous others.
He has taught at the University of California Los Angeles on entertainment economics, is an ex-director or the Themed Entertainment Association, and is on the Entertainment Council of the Urban Land Institute.
Prior to joining ERA, John worked for the Walt Disney Company in business planning for the company’s attractions and resorts. John has an M.B.A. from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Arizona, and a BA in business from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.