John Ziebarth is a semi-retired management consultant in the field of international financial management. He has served in this role for more than twenty-five years on projects in over a dozen countries on five continents. John is an alumnus of Hamilton College and the Thunderbird School of Global Management. His career after graduate school began with Procter & Gamble in Europe where he resided for more than a decade, enabling him to become fluent in French and other European languages. Subsequent management positions in manufacturing and capital project administration with international companies took him to Cincinnati, San Francisco and later back to Brussels, Belgium. In the early 1980's he returned to the United States, taking a position as Vice president/General Manager of a privately held surgical supplies manufacturer based in Westchester County.

In 1985, he co-founded Lexington Acquisition Associates, Ltd. in New York, a management consulting firm serving principally privately owned, middle-market companies. During this time he earned his management consulting certification from the Institute of Management Consultants, and frequently served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. The success of Lexington Associates led to a merger with a nationally affiliated accounting firm for which he became President of their management advisory services division. In 1990, he was seized by the entrepreneurial spirit and acquired Nationwide Shipping Services, a failing, New Jersey-based third party logistics services provider. After re-building the company and adding a host of national name accounts to the client roster, he sold it to a larger competitor and returned to consulting.

While still consulting to a limited number of European clients, he now continues pursuing his interests in travel, linguistics, history and writing. He has served as a Director and/or Officer on dozens of Boards of Directors in both the profit and non-profit sectors.