John Rovani

John Rovani, a Senior Managing Director in The McLean Group’s headquarters office, leads the Travel, Hospitality & Food Services investment banking practice. Mr. Rovani has more than 24 years’ global corporate development, operational and investment banking deal-making experience, including extensive cross-border deal experience with travel, hospitality and food service/retail companies in the US, UK, India, Spain and elsewhere.

Mr. Rovani is uniquely qualified to advise firms seeking growth and liquidity events.  He draws on prior efforts positioning, packaging, building and turning around small firms and units of larger companies. Bilingual in English and French and proficient in Spanish, he is a dual citizen of the US and Europe. Mr. Rovani has worked in 28 countries.

During his 9 years with AMR Corporation, Mr. Rovani pioneered international growth of both American Airlines and Sabre, opening a new city in Europe for the former and championing the sale of the latter’s passenger reservation and yield-management software to the French Railway. At AMR, Mr. Rovani rose to VP of AMR Training and Consulting Group where he won and led such consulting engagements as a comprehensive overview of the then third-largest African airline.

Mr. Rovani subsequently headed a leading travel agency’s strategic enterprise resource planning (ERP) travel management business initiative. He also was president and CEO of an airline revenue management provider, VP of Internet products and services for a leading hospitality/point-of-sale (POS) service and hardware manufacturer, and president and COO of a restaurant POS and back-office enterprise management solution provider.

Mr. Rovani writes frequently for industry magazines and speaks at industry events. He holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University, a Bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts, and a certificate in negotiations and influence from Georgetown University.

Professional Credentials

• FINRA Registered Representative (Series 7, 63, 79)