After receiving his MBA he went to work as a junior executive at PepsiCo.
Graduated from Harvard in 1980 where he was an editor for The Harvard Lampoon.
Chairman of the negotiating committee for the WGA during the 2007-08 writers strike.
In 1985 he received his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Attended White Fish Bay High School.
Survived by his wife, one daughter, Courtney four sons, Nicholas, Alec, Jesse, and John, Jr. one sister, Susan Bowman, and two brothers, William and James.