John St John

John has worked in capital markets for 37 years, founding STJ Advisors to provide issuers and selling shareholders with independent, highly specialised advice. Among other innovations he has pioneered the rights issue auction process, the IPO auction process, investor mapping analysis objectively aggregating and analysing investor feedback, creating the first database of banks and investors across all major geographies and their participation in equity offerings. John has held ECM/Advisory roles for privatisation projects in the UK, Austria, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Australia and India.

John has lectured on Equity Capital Markets at Insead and is a supporter of Street Child (formerly Build Africa), building schools in Africa.