John Mckenna

Corporate and Philanthropic Board Service

📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 23 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2015
Angel investor🌍 United States
7
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23y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
May 2011
Beyond Capital Fund is an evergreen impact investment fund that invests in for-profit, early-stage companies throughout East Africa and India. The fund invests in businesses that are focused on greater access to health care, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture & food security, and financial inclusion, which can increase the quality of life for consumers living at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Though the fund seeks market-rate financial returns, Beyond Capital is structured as a nonprofit, which permits the organization to emphasize fidelity to its social mission alongside its financial mandate. Since its founding in 2009, Beyond Capital has reached a growing 8 million people, including 5.8 million women, living in underserved communities.
Board Member
2007
SecondMarket is wholly owned by Nasdaq Private Market. Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) is a mission-driven independent company which received strategic investments from SVB, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. NPM serves a large growing market for private company secondary liquidity by offering a trading venue for issuers, brokers, shareholders, and prospective investors of private company stock built from Nasdaq’s franchise technology and marketplace. NPM has facilitated more than $36 billion dollars in transactional volume and has worked with 375+ private companies and 60,000+ employees, stakeholders, and investors and we’re quickly growing. Today’s reality is that companies are choosing to stay private for longer. This is the new market standard. With leadership and expertise in the market, NPM’s vision is to further expand the liquidity landscape.
Board Member
2007
Gate Gourmet has been serving the airline industry for more than 70 years and has become the world’s largest independent provider of airline catering and logistics. We prepare tens of thousands of tasty, nutritious passenger meals and snacks daily and reliably service more than 2 million flights a year in “last mile” operations worldwide. Gate Gourmet is the core business behind gategroup, the leading independent global provider of products, services and solutions related to an airline passenger’s onboard experience. At Gate Gourmet our 27,000 employees work to serve people on the move with their expertise in catering and hospitality; provisioning and logistics; and onboard solutions. We serve over 250 carriers in more than 30 countries and provide our customers expertise and solutions tailored to their guests, service offerings and geographic regions.
Board Member
2003
To connect with us on LinkedIn, please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/company/american-airlines The integration of US Airways and American Airlines was completed on April 8, 2015 and officially formed American Airlines Group, which is now the largest airline in the world. To find out more about careers with us, please visit http://jobs.aa.com
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2015
Board Member
Oct 2015
CHC provides unmatched helicopter services that enable our customers to reach beyond – to work in remote and challenging destinations that limit others – and come home safely. We are dedicated to our purpose of getting our customers where they need to be, when they need to be there, anywhere in the world – safely and reliably. We are a trusted and reliable offshore transportation partner enabling oil and gas customers to safely reach beyond boundaries to explore and develop in some of the world’s most isolated, deep-water sites. We have decades of experience flying people to and from offshore platforms and vessels in challenging conditions in the remotest environments. For more than five decades, CHC has been providing Search and Rescue (SAR) in challenging and hostile environments – from remote, perilous, and extreme terrains to offshore rescues in the towering swells of the Arctic Circle and the North Sea, the vast Atlantic Ocean, the cyclone-prone tropical waters of the Timor Sea, both sides of the Indian Ocean, and the Caspian Sea. Heli-One, our maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) segment, is a global leader in providing these services in support of a range of helicopters. Decades of expertise and excellent, long-standing relationships with leading global helicopter manufacturers make Heli-One the premier rotor wing MRO solution. CHC is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and operates a fleet of aircraft in countries all around the world.
2011
Managing Director and Co-Head
Oct 2011
Miller Buckfire is an internationally recognized investment bank focused on helping clients address complex transformational issues—recapitalizations, acquisitions, sales and divestitures, and debt and equity financing transactions. Our comprehensive approach and thoughtful solutions, rooted in a proven record of success, ensure that our clients are able to execute on their strategies regardless of the economic or market environment.
Managing Director Miller Buckfire
Oct 2011
Established in 1890, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated is one of the nation’s premier full-service financial services firms, providing brokerage, trading, investment banking, investment advisory, and related services to individual investors, professional money managers, businesses, and municipalities through more than 400 locations across the U.S. Stifel ranks as the 7th largest brokerage firm in the country as measured by number of financial advisors, with approximately 2,300, and features a highly regarded equity research department that has earned numerous accolades from such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Financial Times. In 2023, 2024, and 2025 Stifel was recognized as the No. 1 wealth management firm for employee advisor satisfaction, based on the J.D. Power U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study*. Stifel is the principal subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial services holding company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Stifel Financial Corp.s other subsidiaries include Stifel Independent Advisors, LLC, an independent contractor broker-dealer firm; Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, the Company’s European subsidiary; Stifel Nicolaus Canada, Inc., our Canadian subsidiary; Stifel Bank and Trust and Stifel Bank, retail and commercial banks; and Stifel Trust Company, N.A. and Stifel Trust Company Delaware, N.A, our trust companies. *Based on the results of the J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study℠. For J.D. Power 2025 award information, visit jdpower.com/awards. Compensation provided for using, bot obtaining the award.
Board Member
May 2011
Beyond Capital Fund is an evergreen impact investment fund that invests in for-profit, early-stage companies throughout East Africa and India. The fund invests in businesses that are focused on greater access to health care, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture & food security, and financial inclusion, which can increase the quality of life for consumers living at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Though the fund seeks market-rate financial returns, Beyond Capital is structured as a nonprofit, which permits the organization to emphasize fidelity to its social mission alongside its financial mandate. Since its founding in 2009, Beyond Capital has reached a growing 8 million people, including 5.8 million women, living in underserved communities.
2007
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2003–2015 · 7 investments
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