Prior to joining Standard Bank, John worked variously for Citibank, Barclays, Citibank, Grindlays and National Westminster Bank. He was also a founder of one of East Africa’s first independent investment banking groups, Loita Capital Partners Over the last 25 years John has played a leading role in the development of Kenya’s and East Africa’s debt and equity capital markets, in the emergence of corporate finance and asset management as major market activities, and in the establishment of regulatory institutions to support these markets: for instance the Capital Markets Authority and the Retirement Benefits Authority. He is also a founder member of the Central Bank of Kenya’s Market Leaders Forum, a consultative body responsible for the development of Kenya’s Treasury bond programme, a pace setter in Africa. John is also the first Chairman of Konza Technocity Development Authority, the Kenya Government’s agency set up in 2012 to develop Africa’s first high tech city John has a BA 1st Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from St Peter’s College, Oxford University