John A. Caslione (born Buffalo, NY, USA) is an American Entrepreneur, Management Consultant, Mergers and Acquisitions, Author, Adjunct Professor and Public Speaker. Caslione is widely recognized and a global business strategy expert and highly respected thought leader in the global economy and business globalization. Having personally executed on-the-ground business strategies in 99 countries on six continents over the past 25 years, Caslione serves as director and/or adviser for North American, European, Asian and North African firms to globalize their businesses.
Caslione is Co-Founder (2013) and current Member of the Board of Directors of MidEast Gateway, LLC, an international business and financial advisory and financial placement firm that facilitates cross-border business alliances and transactions between companies in North America and high-growth markets in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). MidEast Gateway has offices in Washington, DC (USA), Vienna (Austria) and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).
Caslione was Founder (2005) and is current President & CEO of GCS Business Capital, LLC, an Emerging Markets and Mergers and Acquisitions global business advisory firm with offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia (Chicago, Vienna, Shanghai and Hong Kong). The firm is focused on providing advisory services to companies engaged in internationalizing their business especially in high growth emerging markets, global marketing, sales and distribution alliances, cross-border mergers and acquisitions and international equity joint ventures between companies from North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, China and other markets in Asia.
Caslione previously was the founder and President & CEO of Andrew-Ward International, Inc. (1991), an international management consultancy assisting firms in developing global business strategies, which was merged into GCS Business Capital, LLC in 2007.
Caslione received his B.S. (1975) and MBA (1978) from the University of New York (Buffalo, NY, USA), and his Juris Doctor (1984) from the Chicago-Kent College of Law (Chicago, IL, USA).
In 2009, Caslione published his fifth book, co-authored with marketing guru and thought leader Philip Kotler, entitled, Chaotics: The Business of Managing and Marketing in The Age of Turbulence (AMACOM Publishing; May 2009)
Chaotics co-authors Caslione and Philip Kotler proclaim that companies must plan now for an economy that will no longer ebb and flow like the smooth upward rising sine waves of the past, but rather will look like the choppy spikes of a heartbeat in an EKG—the “new normality”. Their Chaotics Management System includes new Chaotics Strategies and Chaotics Strategic Behaviors for hedging risk and confronting uncertainty to help businesses navigate through turbulence rather than being caught up in it. In its first year of publication, Chaotics: The Business of Managing and Marketing in The Age of Turbulence is distributed in 78 countries and published in 38 languages.
Caslione has previously written four books: two English-language books on globalization and international business, Growing Your Business in Emerging Markets: Promise and Perils (Dearborn Publishing, 2002), and Global Manifest Destiny: Growing Your Business in a Borderless Economy (Greenwood Publishing, 2000); and two Chinese-language books, Going Global: How to Globalize Your Business (Economy & Management Publishing House, 2005), and Developing Successful Global Sales and Distribution Channel Strategy (Economy & Management Publishing House, 2005).
Caslione is Adjunct Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, Visiting Professor at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney, Australia, and guest lecturer at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (USA). Caslione is a recognized expert on the new global economy and global business strategy and speaks at many global business forums, including CNBC's Squawkbox and Morning Exchange programs as guest expert addressing critical issues in the global economy, global business and strategy, as well as on the Middle East, Africa, China, India and other parts of Asia.