J. N. O.

Professional background

John is Managing Partner of the firm, JNO Science and Technology Accelerator a decade enduring, strategic, applied research partner with Cornell (Ivy League) Quant AI - ML - Big Data MPS.

John has 26 consecutive years of immersive board leadership experience in the enterprise technology and sciences space as a proven business builder. His passionate business building, corporate development, M&A, and strategic corporate leadership experience is backed by an academic history featuring an MBA in Finance from a Top 20 program and a BA in Economics, cum laude, with departmental distinction in Economics and Accounting. He has thrived globally across both Fortune 500 and entrepreneurial upstarts with public, private and nonprofit directors’ experience.

John led proprietary, private equity backed technology companies including Chairman of Gravity Investments and Gravity Capital Partners (rapidly garnered $1Billion in sub advised assets), Gem Pharmaceuticals, a biotech breakthrough in oncological chemotherapies (raised $20 Million) and CEO of Mad Catz, a public technology gaming company and The Music School, the largest for profit school in the industry in Partnership with Julliard, Berkeley and Bain Capital. Additionally, LandInfo International, the Ecommerce first mover in GIS.

John led a startup enterprise tech solutions business unit from $1M to $100M in 34 months. He co-led full spectrum corporate development in raising $125M in growth capital for emerging technology companies. He has subject matter expertise in intellectual property and strategic partner development as cofounder of the JNO Accelerator. JNO has collaborated closely with the Chief's of Staff of 3 US Senators and State Governors.

His 40-year track record in global enterprise technologies deal making, and programmatic project implementation highlights include verticalizing the sales force, co-founding the Global Industry Consulting Solutions and Integrations Division, the Corporate Account Group, and the Business Partner Program for Intergraph, a Fortune 500 enterprise GIS software company. John's teams were number one in the company 5 times over 12 years.

He served on the Board of Directors for Bethesda Lutheran Church Charities as well as their governance and treasury committees. Bethesda is a 103-year-old national Lutheran nonprofit that employs 4000 professionals housing and helping the disabled evangelizing the Lutheran faith. John led the Capital Campaign for Christ Lutheran Church and was General Partner in an entrant in the Indianapolis 500.

Mr. Davis is a Partner of the firm.

Prior to co-founding the J.N.O. Accelerator Group, Walter Davis is an experienced Wall Street investment banker, fund raiser and business leader with over 30-years’ experience working at top Wall Street firms such as Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase and Invesco. He is a seasoned manager with exceptional interpersonal and strategic thinking skills developed working within complex, global asset and wealth management organizations. While at Morgan Stanley, Walter was Managing Director and President of the largest multi manager, managed futures hedge fund business in the world. That business had assets under management of $7Billion generating $250MM in annual revenue.

Walter has proven to be a prolific fund raiser, having raised several billion dollars from institutional and individual basis, both domestically and internationally. He has a strong background in helping businesses develop and implement their strategic plan, and tactically marketing their products.

He holds a MBA in Finance and International Business from Columbia Business School, and BA in Economics (with Honors) from the University of the South.

Mr. Rogers is a Partner of the firm.

Prior to joining the J.N.O. Accelerator Group, Stuart led global strategy for the AIG wealth management business. He also led strategy for Nuveen Investments and contributed to the board. He is a recognized authority in broker dealer growth strategies and compliance.

Mr. Rogers was employee number 4 for an academic upstart out of Scotland where as CEO he raised $50 M in private capital and then took the AI upstart public on the London AIM Exchange.

Stuart holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Mr. Seavey is a Partner of the firm with 24 patents.

Dale's career trajectory has allowed him to lead inside both startups and major enterprises, including driving innovation and disruption inside Google, Cisco, and Dell. Often recruited, I am able to enter into a new team and organization while rapidly defining the roadmaps, processes, and methodologies necessary to overhaul, transform, and reinvigorate.

He strategically invented and patented the technologies that propelled the development of Google Hangouts and Google Voice, grew the Cisco WEB infrastructure to an $11B run rate, secured major $1B contracts with Uber and WhatsApp for Twillo, and revitalized the software-defined networking (SDN) product for Dell.

At his core, he is an inventor, technologist, and product driver. Dale can take ideas from concept to market while boosting revenue, building global teams, and forging next-level engineering functions. A value-added business partner and resource, he is often sought out to resolve stalled projects, course-correct failing departments, and position the businesses as market leaders.

A strategist, big-picture thinker, and cross-functional project leader. Skilled at building strong technical cultures, driving growth, and creating continuous improvement, Dale increases quality, amplify end results, and cultivate a more modern environment.

Areas of Expertise

Investment Banking, Private Equity, Strategy, Disruptive SaaS Tech, Full Stack, Big Data Science, IP, Business Planning, Fund Raising, Business Building, Entrepreneurship, Board Chairman and Invested Directors, Strategic Partnerships, Emerging Growth, Recruiting Board and C Team, FinTech, IPO, Global Institutional Wealth, Hyper Growth, M&A, IPO, SPAC