John is a broadly experienced business and not-for-profit leader. Executive Chairman of Premier, the UK’s largest communications agency specialising in international entertainment, arts and culture. John is also the Chair of a portfolio of entrepreneurial businesses including multiplex cinema operator Peckhamplex.

He is a member of BAFTA, a patron of the arts and active in charitable organisations having chaired Missing People for ten years. He is currently a trustee of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.