As a humanitarian, John served as chairman of the world's largest Internet venture connecting diabetes information and research. The web site, www.childrenwithdiabetes.com, receives an average of 3 million hits per month. The organization he developed has a 14 member medical staff available to assist families with questions and coordinate research information with other doctors.

Combining his charitable endeavors with his sportsmanship, John drove his Harley Davidson cross-country from NY to Las Vegas to raise awareness for Juvenile Diabetes in 1998. In another fund-raiser in 1993, John rowed a boat nonstop for more than 36 miles around Vashon Island, off Washington State, to raise money for Special Olympics. John holds the record as the only person to ever make this 16-hour trip non-stop.

With a family including one son and one daughter, John is an advocate for other children's organizations. He has promoted literacy through Cities in Schools and established a library at a Los Angeles home for neglected and abused children. He takes pride in his board seat at Pepperdine University, one of the highest quality education universities in America. John is the founder of a private grade school in Washington State, named Harbor School. "The children are our world's future; anything I can do to help them, I'm in," John has been known to say. John sits on the board of Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport, Connecticut, his alma mater, and is also an Honorary Chairperson on the Board of Trustees at the Willie Ross School for the Deaf.