John Lakian

John Lakian is a businessman and former gubernatorial candidate of Massachusetts. He has founded several businesses, and served on the board on many others. He had an unsuccessful run for governor that resulted in a high-profile lawsuit in 1982, and an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate in 1994. Lakian served in Vietnam and was awarded a Bronze Star.

Lakian is the founder and current board chairman of the Fort Hill Group, Inc., an investment banking and venture capital firm based in New York City. In 1986, he launched McKinley and Allsopp, a brokerage firm that provides investment-banking services. His financial service companies have served a number of high-profile Wall Street firms, including Paine Webber, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Solomon Smith Barney.

In 1994, Lakian led a group that founded First New England Dental, a dental practice holding company in New England. The Company attempted a public offering in 1997, but was unsuccessful and filed for bankruptcy the following year.

Lakian is the current CEO of Living Independently Group, a company which develops monitoring system to assist in the care of senior citizens. He has served on the boards of Merchants Capital, Mr. Coffee, JoS. A. Bank Clothiers, Peoples Department Stores, Apparel Marketing Corporation, FNEDC, Sheffield Medical Technologies, The Molloy Group, and Standard Life of Indiana.

In 1982, John Lakian ran for the Republican party nomination for governor. He was the early favorite after securing the party's endorsement. Lakian spent nearly $1 million on his failed bid. After a The Boston Globe story revealed that he had made several exaggerations about his background, he was forced to publicly confess and lost the nomination to John W. Sears. Supporters blamed the loss on The Globe, claiming it had unfairly defamed Lakian.

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