John C. Couch

John is retired after 56 years of general management experience in the investment management, real estate development, agribusiness, ocean transportation, and shipbuilding industries. For the past 20 years he has been associated with C.M. Capital Corporation in Palo Alto and Hong Kong, a private investment company where he served as President and CEO before retiring in 2011. He remains on the company’s Board where he serves as its non-executive Vice Chairman.

John has served on the Boards of the University Hawaii Foundation, Aloha United Way, The Bishop Museum, the Boy Scouts, the Business Roundtable, and The Maui Economic Development Board, among others. He is currently an Advisor to the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering and is a Trustee and Chairman of the Investment Committee of Webb Institute, a private engineering college in New York. He has also served on the Avenidas Village Advisory Committee and on the Avenidas Finance Committee.

John earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Engineering from Michigan and a Master’s degree from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.