Bulkley Capital, L.P.

John is a seasoned media executive, with over thirty years experience.  Most recently, John served as President and General Manager of KDFI-TV in Dallas, a station he launched through the founding of Dallas Media Investors Corporation with E.M. Warburg Pincus.  During his ten years at KDFI, John took the station from virtually no audience to a weekly average of 175,000 viewers (a five-share of the highly competitive

Dallas/Ft. Worth market).  By 1994, the station was generating $10 million in annual revenue and $3 million in operating cash flow.  In 1994, John sold KDFI-TV to Argyle Communications.Prior to the KDFI-TV venture, John spent three years as President and General Manager of KDFW-TV, the CBS affiliate in Dallas, where he was responsible for producing the highest yearly revenue and profit in the station's history, then and now.

John began his career with CBS as a sales traffic coordinator at KCBS-TV, Los Angeles. Over the next ten years, he progressed through a succession of sales and marketing positions at the CBS-owned stations before becoming General Manager of KMOX-TV in St. Louis.

Born and raised in San Francisco, John received his Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from the University of Oregon. 

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