John is a co-founder and the Executive Chair of Poynton Stavrianou.
He has decades of advisory and capital markets experience across equity, debt, infrastructure, and property.
In parallel with his career as an investment banker, John has also been an active non-executive director of ASX-listed companies, government and education bodies and not-for-profit organisations.
John is Chair of life sciences company Lixa and RCM Ltd. He is also a non-executive director of Perth Airport Pty Ltd.
John has served on the boards of Alinta, ASX, Austal, Crown, Fleetwood, Multiplex and Strike Energy. For the Federal Government he has been a director of EFIC, the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payments System Board and the Higher Education Endowment Fund. John also served for 10 years as a Guardian of Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the $250+ bn Future Fund.
He spent 20 years at Hartley Poynton (now Euroz Hartleys) with the last 10 years in the role of MD/Executive Chair. He was a co-founder of Azure Capital and served as Executive Chair for 12 years.
In the not-for-profit arena, John has chaired the Council of Christ Church Grammar School and was a long-standing board member of the Business School at the University of WA. John has also served as chair of Celebrate WA, Giving West, and the Foundation of the WA Museum. John was recently appointed to the board of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA).
In 2006 John was the recipient of the Western Australian Citizen of the Year Award in the Industry and Commerce category and in 2016 he was appointed as an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia.
John holds a Bachelor of Commerce and an honorary Doctor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia where he was also awarded a Dean’s Medal.
He is a Fellow of AICD and AIM and is a Senior Fellow and Life Member of FINSIA.
John is an experienced pilot and holds a private fixed wing licence with a command instrument rating. He also holds a commercial helicopter licence.
