John Honney is President of JKH Enterprises, Inc., a firm he founded in 2003 to lead middle market companies through financings, transactions and other corporate development activities. He brings to his clients a wealth of experience which he gained as a senior member of the Bank of Montreal's Cdn$300 million middle market private equity fund. He is well versed in strategic planning, corporate governance and transaction execution.

At the Bank of Montreal, he led multiple private equity investments and represented the fund at portfolio companies as a Board Member and Chairman of an Audit Committee. John ultimately managed the Chicago office of the fund, which made mostly control interest investments in more than 10 companies. John was integrally involved with multiple out-of-court restructurings, raising hundreds of millions of dollars of debt financing and leading two successful senior management successions.

John began his career as a financial analyst in New York with Goldman Sachs & Co.'s Economics Research Group. Afterward, John joined Meadowcroft Associates, a boutique investment bank specializing in workouts and restructurings, where he advised unsecured creditor committees in Chapter 11 reorganizations, such as those of Eagle-Picher and National Gypsum. After earning his MBA at the Kellogg School of Management, John worked as a consultant to M&T Bank before joining the Bank of Montreal's private equity fund. John has a B.A. cum laude from Middlebury College, where he wrote a thesis which was published in the journal "Economics Letters."