John's love affair with business began when he was just 15 years old and working part time as a "sanitizing engineer" for a company in the rolling hills of East Tennessee. His parents instilled in him beliefs in the value of hard work, honesty, and integrity. He truly believes in the old saying, "The harder I work, the luckier I get!"

After earning an MBA from the University of Tennessee, John spent eight years on active duty with the Air Force. His last assignment was as a Missile Combat Crew Commander for the Titan II, ICBM system at Little Rock, AFB. It was while in the Air Force, that John bought his first computer and began teaching himself the fundamentals of computer systems and basic programming. He went on to author two DOS based business software programs (The Managers Toolbox and EZ SPC) in the late 1980's.

Upon leaving the Air Force in 1984, John began the path that would eventually lead him to the creation of Quest Enterprises. According to John, "As a leader I can't motivate anyone; all I can do is help remove the organizational and self-imposed limitations that exist, empowering them to motivate themselves and others."

John founded the original company in 1987 as a professional development training company specializing in the custom creation of programs on quality, team building, leadership, customer service, and motivation. Training Solutions of Tennessee continued to expand, and began marketing on the internet in 1995. This marketing effort brought worldwide exposure to the rapidly growing company and Training Solutions of Tennessee soon developed business relationships in many nations including: Canada, South America, Russia, and several European countries.

In 1998 SpeakersQuest was created to promote professional speakers and entertainers using the latest in streaming video and CD-ROM technology. We soon saw the need to provide a host of readily accessible and easy to use services to professional speakers and meeting planners world wide.

To satisfy these needs, Quest Enterprises was born. Through a series of strategic business initiatives, Quest Enterprises, moved rapidly into video production and multimedia CD-ROM mastering, web hosting and site design, meeting planning services, travel services, and retail. Quest Enterprises originally provided custom services primarily to the professional speaking and meeting planning industry. However, we recognized that many of these services were of great value to business in general.

According to John, "The strength of our company lies in the belief that we can combine the 'old world' values of building lasting relationships with our partners in commerce; with the 'new world' of technology and provide our services and information at the speed of thought".

John presently resides on Cherokee Lake, in East Tennessee. He lives in a passive solar, earth sheltered home, of his own design.