John B. Vinturella

John B. Vinturella, PhD, has more than 40 years’ experience as an educator, manager, entrepreneur, and strategist. He is the author of The Entrepreneur’s Fieldbook and co-author of Raising Entrepreneurial Capital, now in its second edition. He earned a PhD from Tulane University in 1968.

John has taught Management and Entrepreneurship at Tulane and Dillard Universities, and as an adjunct at several universities. At Tulane, John also headed the “Family Business Forum.”

The company he founded in Covington, LA in 1978, Tammany Supply, Inc., was named a Blue-Chip Enterprise by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and was recognized for innovative use of technology (“The Wizardry of Tammany Supply”) in the trade journal, Supply House Times. The company was sold to a regional chain in 1998.