John is a businessman in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He owns 2 small businesses a) 'Cretan Plants' (production and trade of herbs and plants) and b) 'mlc' (business consultancy). He holds a) a BA (Hon's) in Business Studies, b) an MBA in Marketing and c) an MSc in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management from Coventry University (UK) and the University of Leicester (UK). He has medium and senior management work experiences to local and multinational companies such as Threshers Group in UK, TNT Express in Greece and The Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Messara in Greece. He also has teaching experiences a) in marketing at higher education in UK at Coventry University and b) in economics and business to adults in Greece.