John L. Klinck Jr. is a senior executive with extensive international operating experience in financial services and public, private, and nonprofit boards. He has deep knowledge of strategy, mergers and acquisitions, finance, capital raising, and emerging technologies such as machine learning and blockchain applications.

Klinck has spent his career in financial services including three global banks and more recently angel investing and venture capital. Klinck began his career at American Express in New York City before moving to Pittsburgh to work for Mellon Bank. At Mellon, Klinck was promoted to CEO of its international operations based in London and vice chair serving on the management committee. Klinck was recruited to join State Street in Boston, also serving on the management committee where he ran global strategy, marketing, hedge fund administration, and client management and started a new business unit called Alpha/Global Exchange building insights from custody and accounting data sets. In 2015, Klinck left the large corporate world to join the financial tech revolution. He helped launch Hyperplane Venture Capital, which has incubated two start-ups and made 55 investments focused on artificial intelligence and advanced technologies in the business-to-business space. Klinck is currently an active board director, angel investor, and advisor to multiple start-up firms.

Klinck has extensive board experience across a range of companies. He was the first independent director of Cardlytics (Nasdaq:CDLX) when it was a private company and helped lead the 2018 initial public offering as a member of the audit and pricing committees. Klinck was also one of the first directors of Xpansiv, the world’s largest carbon trading and renewable energy platform, where he chairs the audit and the mergers and acquisitions committees. Klinck serves as a director of Notarize, a Boston-based tech company bringing digital transaction expertise to the financial services industry.

Klinck has been active in the communities where he lives and works. He recently spent 10 years as a board member of the Boy Scouts of America for eastern Massachusetts, including 2.5 years as chair. He also serves on the advisory council of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and NACD.

Klinck has a master of business administration from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a bachelor of arts from Middlebury College where he earned honors on his senior thesis.