John has extensive experience in Asia, Arabian Gulf, and Islamic capital markets, spanning over 25 years. He has raised capital using different financing modalities like equity, bonds, Islamic finance, and cash flow-backed financing, among others. John is fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Indonesian, and commands a smidgen of Arabic due to his past work experience in the Arabian Gulf region. Although John hasn't worked for major investment banks and global banks, he has successfully originated, structured and financially closed fund raising deals that have won numerous awards, and some of the structures used in these deals are still being emulated, such as the Islamic endowment backed development financing structure which John originated and structured and which Singapore has applied and hailed as the benchmark for others to follow.