Senior Associate; Fort Myers, FL

John is a Senior Associate at Afton providing financial advisory services to public charter schools. Passionate about advancing educational opportunity for young scholars of all backgrounds, John brings 20+ years of experience in Fortune 500 corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and even classroom teaching to Afton, most recently as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at a charter school management organization with over 100 schools.

Examples of John’s impact for Afton’s clients include:

• effectively serving as in-house budget director for a multi-school network on very short notice and starting very late in the game.  John’s extensive experience, process-focus and relationship-building led to a balanced budget, from scratch, submitted ahead of schedule, and a highly satisfied client.
• building user-friendly, customizable, a multi-year, multi-school financial models enabling school and network leaders to perform critical what-if analysis as they strive to maximize impact from limited dollars.
• multi-state, multi-school consolidated network budgeting, financial modeling and analysis, and facilities “buy vs. lease” assessment tool.

John holds bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Music from Duke University, an MBA in Finance and Strategy from Southern Methodist University, and a M.S. in Data Analytics from the University of New Hampshire.