Meet John

As our Founder and Wealth Advisor, John has provided the financial advice, education, and services that have earned his clients’ trust and friendship since entering the financial planning profession in 1980. Over nearly four decades, he has proven the value of strong ethics, personal service, and honest relationships. The passion that continues to drive John is the desire to help his clients make wise financial decisions that enable them to pursue their life goals. He is very interested in the rapid development of technology that has improved the ability to project the effects of decisions into the future and make planning decisions much more accurate than at any time in the past.

John founded Granite Wealth Strategies in 2010 and partnered with Carson in 2015 to further enhance the firm’s ability to provide the highest quality service, advice, and resources to his clients. The financial planning business is not just about money or taxes or investing. It is really all about people and their dreams. The desire to help people pursue those dreams has been, and continues to be, the driving force behind John’s career.

John is a Washington State native. He had the great privilege of growing up on the shores of Puget Sound and spent as much time on the water as possible, instilling a life-long love of boating. John graduated from Seattle Pacific College with a BA in Philosophy and earned a MDiv degree from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. John received the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® designation in 1984 from the College for Financial Planning in Denver, Colorado. Vancouver has been home since 1974.

John’s interests revolve around his family and include hunting, fishing, boating, and just enjoying the gifts of God, every day. John and his wife, Rhonda, have been married over 50 years and have three sons and a daughter and eight grandchildren.