Advisor
John founded Katovich Law Group in 2001, representing corporations, LLCs, new businesses and non-profits, with a key focus on triple bottom line business. He has a wide range of experience including general business, securities trading and regulation, arbitration, high tech and IP related matters, business foundation, teaching and consultation. John is the co-founder of two for-profit companies, and two non-profit foundations, and is still an active participant in their direction and operations. He is also the co-holder of a patent for a trading method of combining assets and their derivatives via electronic methods. John was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at the Pacific Stock Exchange from 1987 to 1998, and helped in the design of the Automated Credit Exchange – the first pollution credit trading system. He is also currently the EVP and Chief Legal Officer of the NASDAQ OMX subsidiary Boston Options Exchange Regulation.
John is also currently a Professor at Presidio School of Management, teaching Capital Markets in the MBA curriculum. He was also an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley – Options Trading and Regulation, and served on a special teaching assignment at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He has been a speaker and participant in front of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Financial Services – including the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Government-Sponsored Enterprises, participated as an exchange team member in front of the U.S. Supreme Court regarding arbitration, and was a member of the Bay Area General Counsel Association for 14 years.
John is a graduate of Southern Illinois University School of Law (1979) and also attended John Marshall Law School. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1976). He completed the Executive Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Business School in 1996, and received his NASD Series 7 License. He is licensed to practice law in the state and federal district courts in both California and Illinois.
