John is the founder and CEO of JR Capital. He established the group in 2005 following a 15-year career as an Investment Banker working for HSBC Investment Bank and Barclays Wealth in London, where he held senior management positions responsible for marketing the Middle East and specialised in the UK property sector. Fluent in Arabic, a speaker of Spanish, Italian and French, he has lived and travelled extensively throughout the region and has built up a large network of institutional and private clients in the Middle East in his 30-year professional career. A seasoned deal maker John has completed numerous high profile deals in his career to date, including the sale and structuring of Riverl