Enterprise Growth & Transformation Executive
A dual-threat executive: deep technology fluency — including the latest in GenAI, Copilot, and agents — paired with three decades of P&L leadership, market expansion, and team building. Now advising Fortune 500 leaders on AI-enabled transformation.
Currently: Senior Enterprise AI Business Process Solution Specialist · Microsoft Corporation
Selected boardroom-level outcomes from a career building, scaling, and turning around technology businesses.
I am a technology executive who builds and scales businesses. The combination of deep technology fluency — including the latest in GenAI and agentic capabilities — with three decades of executive business acumen makes me a dual threat: someone who can move from a CFO ROI conversation to a live agent demo in the same meeting and translate either into measurable enterprise outcomes.
Built and grown organizations from start-up and turn-around situations through senior leadership roles spanning consulting services, cloud, healthcare SaaS, and AI.
Hands-on with Copilot, agents, Power Platform, and the broader Microsoft AI stack. Translate emerging GenAI capabilities into ROI-grounded business cases for CXOs at Fortune 500 enterprises — moving organizations from AI experimentation to operational adoption.
Hands-on operator and people leader — from launching new geographies and turning around under-performing offices to attracting, building, and retaining high-performing delivery teams.
“John's first major assignment was in Nashville, Tennessee where he started a new office and grew it into one of the most profitable offices in our 14-location operation. He showed himself to be a competent, creative, and knowledgeable executive.”
— Randy Schilling, President & CEO, Quilogy
Senior Enterprise AI Business Process Solution Specialist
Trusted advisor to enterprise executives on AI-enabled transformation. The dual-threat combination of deep technology fluency (Copilot, agents, Power Platform, Azure) and executive business acumen lets me move CXOs from AI curiosity to operational adoption — orchestrating cross-functional Microsoft, partner, and customer teams to translate emerging GenAI capability into ROI-grounded business cases.
Vice President
Owned multi-state P&L for the Capgemini-owned global engineering services brand — a 25,000-professional, 15-country firm delivering Cloud, Cybersecurity, Digital Manufacturing, and QA solutions.
Director, Cloud Integration Services
Led Cloud Integration Services for an enterprise-grade cloud, colocation, and consulting provider serving customers with sophisticated, mission-critical IT requirements.
VP of Innovation / National Director — Professional Services
Senior Leadership Team member for a precision medicine SaaS company — led the journey from product to first revenue and first enterprise clients across the U.S. healthcare market.
Vice President and Key Member of Business Leadership Team, Reporting to President and CEO
Six progressive executive roles — Senior Consultant → VP, CRM and ERP National Practice
Helped scale Quilogy from $7M to $40M in revenue over a decade, progressing through six executive leadership roles and reporting directly to the President & CEO for nine of the ten years.
"There are few technology professionals I've worked with who displayed such a complete mastery of their craft. John's ability to discern the why and the how, along with his ability to vision an outcome made him an ideal innovator and technologist. While he has worked for several companies operating at scale, John also displayed the ideal temperament and approach with me at HOS, helping bring a product to market, first revenue and its first tranche of clients. Ultimately, John helped prove the efficacy of our particular precision medicine approach through his thoughtful design of a services model which returned client feedback to the innovation process. Finally, John was a consummate team member and contributor to our early stage company."
— Matt Wilson, President and Chief Commercial Officer, SparkChange
"John McCartan was an employee at Quilogy from 1996 through 2006. Originally hired as a consultant in our Des Moines, Iowa office, John's talent and skill at understanding technology, client needs, and business leadership resulted in rapid and successful professional growth at our company.
John's first major assignment was in Nashville, Tennessee where he started a new office and grew it into one of the most profitable offices in our 14-location operation. He showed himself to be a competent, creative, and knowledgeable executive. He played a significant role in Quilogy's success over the past 10 years."
— Randy Schilling, President & CEO, Quilogy
"I wanted to take a moment to personally thank you for the exceptional impact you’ve had as part of the AI Transformation Insiders Community this fiscal year … Insiders bring forward real-world, valuable insights that shape our priorities and decisions …
Of our 800+ person global community, your individual contributions truly stood out and deserve special recognition. You’ve earned the #1 ranking across the entire Insiders community … With consistent attendance at our live bi-weekly sessions and feedback shared throughout, you’ve been one of the most consistent and vocal voices helping us shape the direction of AI transformation …
You’ve helped raise the bar for what’s possible when we co-create with our field, and your leadership within the Insiders community has not gone unnoticed."
— Pam Maynard, Corporate Vice President, AI Transformation Office, Microsoft
Executive Perspective
"We are living through the most rapid technological transformation in history. AI isn't coming — it's here, and it's reshaping every industry, every workflow, every assumption about how work gets done. The key isn't whether to use AI, but how to use it wisely — to treat it as a co-intelligence that amplifies human judgment rather than replacing it.
I believe our greatest challenge isn't the technology itself — it's ensuring we apply and manage AI so that it serves us, not the other way around. That means keeping humans in the loop, leading with curiosity, and grounding every AI initiative in real business value. I've spent my career bridging technology and business, and I've never been more energized. The potential for AI to help businesses — and humanity — accomplish things we once thought impossible is extraordinary. The future belongs to those who lean in thoughtfully."
Washington University — Olin Business School
Executive MBA Program
Global Tycoon Business Strategy Winner
Fudan University — School of Management
Doing Business in China
Morningside College
Double Major · Summa Cum Laude
Scholarship Baseball Player
Academic All-Conference Honors
Hands-on technical depth combined with executive business acumen — a deliberate combination cultivated across 30+ years to translate technology into business outcomes.
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