John Buchanan

Portfolio Manager
PAR Capital Management

2023 Phocuswright Conference speaker

John Buchanan Portfolio Manager
John is a portfolio manager at PAR Capital, a Boston based hedge fund focused primarily on public equities in the travel sector. At PAR, John is responsible for overseeing the firm’s digital media investments and also helps lead its early stage private investment practice. Prior to joining PAR, John co-founded Signpost, a cloud-based marketing platform for SMBs that raised over $60mm in venture capital from Spark Capital, Georgian Partners, Google Ventures and others and was recently acquired by Hibu, Inc.

John received his undergraduate degree in Finance from Lehigh University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Startup Program Mentor:
Areas of expertise: Early stage start-ups, raising capital, strategy in the travel sector.