John Goense Bio

John Goense is a Partner of Goense & Company and is responsible for the overall leadership of the Partnership. He also leads individual investments on behalf of the Partnership. Goense & Company is the fourth private equity group Mr. Goense has led and the third which he has founded. He has been responsible for the management of more than $1 billion of private equity investments.Prior to entering private equity investing, Mr. Goense held positions in investment banking and commercial banking and managed a successful start-up company. From 1977 to 1980, he was employed by Harris Bank. He then co-founded and managed American Paging, Inc., a telecommunications company which eventually was publicly traded. In 1984, Mr. Goense joined Kidder Peabody & Company?s investment banking group, where he concentrated on mergers and acquisitions and financing activities until leaving to found HECC. Mr. Goense graduated magna cum laude from Aquinas College with a BS degree in Accounting and Business Administration and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago.