As an award-winning prospector with 35 years experience in professional geology, John is a steward of the junior mining industry and the co-founder and principal of Discovery Group. His entrepreneurship has created over $2.6 billion in M&A activity and generated over $1 billion in direct and indirect expenditures.

He was involved in several monumental discoveries including the Yukon's 5 million oz Coffee Gold deposit, Ontario's Great Bear Project, the Three Bluffs gold deposit in the Committee Bay greenstone belt, and the Aviat/Churchill diamond districts of Nunavut.

John holds many leadership positions in the industry including Chairman of Fireweed Metals, a Director at Elemental Altus Royalties and Gold Basin Resources, and acts as a Strategic Advisor to Kodiak Copper, Prospector Metals, and ValOre Metals.