John Mack III

John E. Mack III is executive vice president, co-head of investment banking and head of mergers and acquisitions at Imperial Capital.

Based in the Los Angeles, California, office, Mack joined Imperial Capital in 2008 as part of the firm’s acquisition of certain assets of USBX Inc., an investment banking firm focused on mergers and acquisitions. He was the founder and CEO of USBX. Prior to USBX,  Mack served as the CEO and a member of the board of directors of Protection One, Inc. (Nasdaq: PONE), then the nation’s second-largest provider of life safety and property monitoring services. Prior to assuming the role of CEO, he held the positions of chief financial officer, chief strategy officer and executive vice president of business development, where he was involved in over 200 acquisitions and oversaw the company’s growth from approximately 30,000 subscribers and $17 million in revenue to more than 1.6 million subscribers, $600 million in revenue and an enterprise value of over $2 billion. Before joining Protection One, Mack was a senior executive officer with Westec Security, Inc., and prior to Westec he was a senior executive officer with MCM, Inc., dba FAFCO Solar of Northern California.

Mack earned a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A from the University of California at Los Angeles.