John Barone is the Founder and President of Market Vision, Inc. It is Market Vision’s mission to foster and support a community of supply chain professionals in the foodservice industry. That is accomplished primarily through Market Vision’s Supply Chain Conferences and the west-coast Chain Gang Meetings. John is also an advisory board member of the National Restaurant Association’s Supply Chain Expert Exchange.

John has been highly active in speaking, presenting, and educating within the foodservice industry for over 35 years. He specializes in “connecting the dots” – distilling complex economic, market, and commodity data down to actionable information. His focus on macroeconomics has helped restaurateurs understand the new and dramatic global forces that are affecting their businesses and helped them reformulate risk management solutions.

John holds a BA in Mathematics and an MBA in Quantitative Analysis from Rutgers University. His passions include mountain biking, road cycling, books, and music. He is finally retired from 18 years of youth soccer and basketball coaching. His favorite charities include: CORE (Children of Restaurant Employees), CASA of Essex Co (NJ), No Kid Hungry, St Jude’s, the New Community Foundation (Newark, NJ) and the Community FoodBank of NJ.