John Karns is a lead technology partner for MailBanc, a service division of MarketCounsel, LLC.

John Karns spent over a decade in the financial services industry. While at Smith Barney, in New York City, John was first an institutional analyst; then he a co-managed both a small capitalization growth fund ($750M) and a large capitalization variable annuity product ($300M). In 1998 John moved to Denver, Colorado to join Denver Investment Advisors as a Portfolio Manager. In 2001 he became a partner. During his tenure at Denver Investment Advisors John managed the Westcore Small Cap Growth mutual fund. John left in 2003 to join Agger Capital, a hedge fund located in Englewood.

From 1986 through 1990 he managed computing and data center operations, first for Thomson McKinnon, LLC, a private investment bank, which subsequently sold its data operations in 1989; then for ADP's BIS Group, which was the acquirer.

John is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the CFA Institute.  He earned his MBA in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business and his Bachelor's degrees in both Computer Science and Economics from Iowa State University.