John has been a director of the company since July 2021. He has been the principal of Regent Partners, a merchant banking firm, and was a Senior Advisor to Agility Capital, LLC, a venture lending fund from 2007 to 2013. Prior to that he was Chairman of Commercial Bridge Capital, LLC, a venture lending fund. Over the past two decades, John has served as a CEO, Chairman, Director and investor in more than thirty private and public companies. He was a practicing Corporate and Securities partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and of Counsel at Latham & Watkins. He also taught Securities Regulation as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. John started his career and became a partner at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, before becoming one of the founding partners of Aylward, Kintz, Stiska, Wassenaar and Shannahan, which merged into and became the San Diego Office of the Brobeck Firm, shortly after which he joined Intermark, Inc. as President, and subsequently took Intermark, Inc. and its majority owned company Triton Group Ltd through an extensive Chapter 7 reorganization and refinancing, emerging as a successfully restructured public company, Triton Group Ltd. John received a B.A. in Accounting, BBA, and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His extensive experience in public company finance and related corporate matters qualifies him to serve on the board of directors.