Director


John Benitz brings over 15 years of experience as private equity investor, investment banker and entrepreneur to Crossbow Ventures. Prior to joining Crossbow Ventures, John was Managing Partner of Odyssey Venture Group / Odyssey Capital, Hong Kong where he led the strategy, management and deal sourcing of the firm. John originated, led, managed, and exited numerous private equity investments including Quicken Australia (ASX), and Linktone which recently listed on Nasdaq (LTON).

Previously, John was responsible for building and managing Prudential Securities institutional regional capital markets group in Asia (non-Japan) during which time he became the firm's youngest Senior Vice President. John also spent several years in London with Prudential. Following Prudential, John was a co-founder and Director of Ficon Capital a London based asset management firm. John received his MBA from Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from University of Western Ontario. Previous board positions held include Ficon Capital, Hospital Corp. of Asia, GlobalHealthcare, Myrice Holdings, DX Group, ECantata.