John Abbott, age 48, is an entrepreneur and investor with a background in Mergers & Acquisitions. John is chairman of Boom Credit Inc., a consumer online lending platform focused on Latin America markets. Between 2007 and 2016, John served as CEO and later as Chairman of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET), a consumer internet company. Under John's tenure, MEET consolidated a series of 'meet new people' social networking properties, including MyYearbook for $100MM and Skout for $55MM, resulting in market capitalization increase from approximately $13MM to $325MM. John began his career at JP Morgan, where he worked in the Latin America Mergers & Acquisitions area between 1992 and 2005 in New York and São Paulo. John holds an AB from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard University. John is the Technology Advisor to Belvedere Capital Advisor and it is the Investment manager of the Belvedere Fintech Fund.