John Burbank III
John Burbank III
John Burbank III is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Passport Capital.[1]
Career
John is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Passport Capital, a San Francisco based hedge fund. Burbank has over a decade of experience investing in global equity markets. Prior to founding the firm in 2000, he was a consultant to JMG Triton Offshore, Ltd. From 1996 to 1998, John was the director of research at ValueVest Management.[1]
Education
John holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University and earned an Master of Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[1]
Early Years
By age 13, John was already working his first job - as a handy man at a school where he studied.
The first job hehad during college was responding to an advertisement that turned out to be selling cookware door to door.[undefined]
John's father was a school teacher.[undefined]