John Henry Silva

John Henry Silva, speaking at Harvard University

John Henry Silva, speaking at the Consulate of Switzerland

John Henry Silva with President Bush, The White House

John Henry Silva with President Clinton, The White House

John Henry Silva (born 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and Veteran.

Government Service

Silva served in the USMC and served on Yankee White Duty at The White House during the Administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He served in over 25 domestic and international trips supporting Presidential Travel Operations. He is a recipient of the Presidential Service Badge.^[1]

Entrepreneurship

Silva is a serial entrepreneur,^[2]^[3]^[4] and is the co-founder of Tufts Health Ventures^[5] at Tufts Health Plan, rated the leading private health plan in the United States in 2015.^[6]

Previously, he worked with ReMed Life Sciences, a Shanghai-based regenerative medicine company,^[5] Otsuki Consulting International ( 大槻コンサルティングインターナショナル ), a Tokyo-based strategy consulting firm, iRobot, a US-based robotics firm, Aga Khan Foundation, an international economic development organization, and Millhouse Capital, a London-based multi-family office.

He was named 40 Under 40 in Healthcare Innovation by Medtech Boston.^[5]

Academia and Media

Silva has written and been featured in the Boston Globe,^[7] ^[8]^[9] Le Courrier,^[10] MIT Entrepreneurship Review,^[11] Boston World Partnerships,^[12] Harvard Crimson^[1] and Bloomberg.^[11]^[13]^[14] Previously he was a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has published academic research at iRobot and Harvard Business School,.^[15]^[16] He also was an editor for Humanism and Business, published by Cambridge University Press.^[17]

Family and Education

Silva was born November 17, 1980 and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. His maternal and paternal family are political refugees from Gdańsk, Poland and Havana, Cuba respectively. His mother, Barbara Dworzycki, toured the Soviet Union in 1964 with the Oberlin College Choir.^[18] His grandfather, Manuel Silva, was a friend of Ernest Hemingway.^[19] His cousin, Al Montoya, is the first Cuban American in the National Hockey League.^[20]^[21] Silva graduated from Hawthorne Scholastic Academy, New Trier High School and Harvard University, where he studied Classics.

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