John MacBain

John H. McCall MacBain, OC (born c. 1958), a Canadian citizen, is the founder of the McCall MacBain Foundation and Pamoja Capital SA, its investment arm. Prior to founding the McCall MacBain Foundation, he studied at Harvard and Oxford University, as well as developing an entrepreneurial career as the founder of Trader Classified Media.

McCall MacBain is a Rhodes Scholar and received an MBA from Harvard Business School (1984), an MA in Law from Oxford University and an Honours BA in Economics from McGill University (1980) as well as an hLD from Dalhousie University in Canada (2010). He was president of the McGill Students' Society, as well as valedictorian. While at Oxford, he was co-captain of the university ice hockey team.

From 1987 to 2006, McCall MacBain was the founder, president and CEO of Trader Classified Media, the world's leading classified advertising company. Starting with his purchase of three small publications in Montreal in 1987 when he was 29 years old, he developed the classified business to include 500 print titles and 57 internet sites in over 20 countries, including in Argentina, Australia, China, France, Hungary, Italy, Russia and Spain. After its IPO in 2000, Trader Classified Media was publicly traded on NASDAQ and the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange. In 2006, McCall MacBain sold Trader Classified Media and set up the McCall MacBain Foundation.

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