John H. Glanville currently serves as General Manager of Beyond Ideas, a Strategy/Solutions/Learning platform for organizations (for profit, not for profit, and institutional). Previously, John served as Chairman, CEO, and President of Maps.com and affiliated subsidiaries and as General Manager of Benchmark Maps (2010 to 2024); both companies have seen recent exits.
John serves as Managing Director of Athenaeum Capital Partners, an evergreen early stage technology investment fund operating and with investments in Southern California. John manages fund raising, due diligence, investment, board, and exit responsibilities for multiple investments during a twenty-five-year investment period. The current portfolio mix focuses on sustainable impact investing including renewable energy, agriculture, and environment.
John has a long history of founding and growing organizations, both for profit and not for profit. These include Sustainable Change Alliance (impact investing), Social Venture Partners (chapters in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara), Pasadena Angels, Tech Coast Angels ACE Funds, and the Los Angeles Business Technology Center. John has been involved with numerous entrepreneurship programs as a mentor and coach at UCSB TMP and New Ventures Competition, Caltech, Art Center College of Design, Harvey Mudd, Lehigh, UT Austin, Keck Graduate School, USC, UCLA, and other universities and programs.
John has served Lehigh University in various roles including Board of Trustees (2004 to 2010), College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Board, Global Lehigh Committee of the Board of Trustees, and Lehigh Leadership Council.
John has extensive non-profit leadership experience serving in a variety of officer, board, committee, and operational roles with Shelterbox USA, Rotary (Pasadena, Montecito, Goleta Clubs), the Caltech Associates, Caltech SURF, Pasadena Symphony, A Noise Within Theatre Company, and Sustainable Change Alliance Foundation.
Prior to his entrepreneur, investment and coaching careers, John worked for fifteen years as a construction manager for Turner Construction in Texas and Connecticut, and for five years as a construction manager for California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
John earned his BA degree in Fine Arts/Architecture from Lehigh University and his MS degree in Civil Engineering/Project Management from University of Texas at Austin. John earned his coaching certificate from Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara.
John resides outside of Olympia, Washington with his two labradors Chidi and Ellie.