Bio

John Macaskill, Managing Director, joined Groton in March 2005 and focuses his efforts on alternative investments, including private equity. Mr. Macaskill is a General Partner in a number of private equity and real estate funds. Mr. Macaskill has spent the last thirty years in the financial services industry in New York and London, after starting his career as an accountant in Scotland. He spent a total of fourteen years at JP Morgan Chase and its predecessor firms. Mr. Macaskill joined Chemical Bank, a predecessor of JP Morgan Chase, in London in 1977 and was transferred to New York in 1982. He rejoined JP Morgan Chase as a Managing Director in 1993 and remained with the firm until 2000. During his time at JP Morgan Chase, he was responsible for a number of different activities, including their origination of Yankee bond issuers. From 1984 until 1993, Mr. Macaskill was employed at Bankers Trust Co. in New York where he was a Managing Director and held a number of additional roles, including heading the Commodity Finance Group, the Commodity Derivatives Group and the Insurance Derivatives Group. Mr. Macaskill serves as a Director to the National Museum of Scotland's American Board. Mr. Macaskill is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.