John is a leader in Deloitte & Touche LLP with extensive experience serving large, complex global public and private equity clients among the Fortune 500. As a senior client leader, John’s experience includes overseeing enterprise performance consulting and advisory services, financial statement audit services, accounting and reporting advisory services, and financial and tax transaction services in connection with mergers and acquisitions. John also has extensive financial accounting, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and capital markets experience. Through his client service work, John has actively participated in numerous board and audit committee meetings, sharing his independent perspectives with board members across a wide range of industries and emerging topics and leading practices in board governance.
John serves a variety of clients, including as a Lead Client Service Partner on several multinational accounts. John has also held various management leadership roles, including most recently as the Chief Operating Officer for the Audit & Assurance business and as a member of the US Operating Committee. As Chief Operating Officer, John was responsible for setting operational strategy, aligning management systems with that strategy, developing business plans for various economic scenarios, and driving outcomes from the investments made by Deloitte in business transformation. John has also served as National Managing Partner – East Region; Regional Managing Partner – Southeast Region; National Managing Partner, Clients & Markets – Audit & Assurance; US Hospitality Leader; and Global Cruise Industry Sector Leader. He was the Chief Diversity Officer for Deloitte reporting directly to the US CEO, where he drove a transformative diversity & inclusion strategy as a business imperative.
John currently serves on the US Deloitte Board of Directors and has held various governance roles, including as a Deloitte & Touche LLP Board Member, a member of the Audit & Assurance Oversight Committee, and a Peering Group E Committee Member. He is a former director of Junior Achievement of South Florida, former director and Audit Committee member of Miami Lighthouse for the Blind, and former Corporate Advisory Board member of the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA).
John received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Accounting and a minor in Information Systems from Florida International University. John is a CPA and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants.