John Adams
Senior Manager
John Adams has almost 25 years of financial services industry experience, having worked in public accounting, investment banking and more recently as a Chief Financial Officer in the insurance industry. In his role as Senior Manager at Cendrowski Corporate Advisors, Mr. Adams will focus on business development activities with insurance companies, private equity funds, public and private companies, and law firms.
An East Coast transplant to the Chicagoland area in 1981, Mr. Adams was formerly Chief Financial Officer and held other senior financial positions at Old Republic International Corporation, one of the nation’s 50 largest publicly owned insurance organizations. At Old Republic, Mr. Adams was responsible for SEC and statutory filings, internal audit, investor relations, capital raising, rating agency relationships, internal control and risk management policies, credit analysis on large accounts, and reviewing investments and reserves.
Prior to joining Old Republic, Mr. Adams spent ten years as an investment banker primarily for Prudential Securities in Chicago, working on private placements, initial public offerings, acquisitions and divestitures, public offerings of debt and equity securities. He began his business career at Touche Ross & Co. (now Deloitte) in New York, where he was licensed as a CPA.
Mr. Adams holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics degree from Williams College in Massachusetts as well as a Master of Science in Accounting degree from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He later earned a Masters in Management degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School Of Management at Northwestern University in Illinois. Mr. Adams is a former Scoutmaster and an active current Assistant Scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts of America.
