John Crary, Secretary

John Crary began his career in venture finance and management forty years ago. Today, he sees his evolving mission as being one who promotes self-empowerment so that people may prosper and thrive. Accordingly, he now devotes his energy to work with and support non-profit organizations aligning with this mission to promote personal and social healing, skill development, self-empowerment, individual sovereignty, and freedom. He currently serves as Founding Board Chair of Veteran Rites, which aims to help Veterans find their whole identity, purpose and belonging after military service. In addition, he serves on the board of The Escala Initiative which provides basic business education to small-scale entrepreneurs and artisans living in poor communities in the developing world.