John Riley, Chairman
John Riley
Chairman
John Riley has served on The Geneva School Board of Governors since 2003 and currently serves as board chair. He also serves on the boards of several other private, public, and non-profit organizations.
Mr. Riley founded Legacy Fund in 2006 for the purpose of investing in privately held businesses and commercial real estate. Prior to Legacy Fund, Mr. Riley enjoyed a twenty-year career in the human resource industry co-founding Transworld Services Group, one of the largest independent staffing companies in the US; Co-Advantage, one of the country’s largest PEO’s (employee leasing firms); ZeroChaos a $3.8B vendor management solution and PlanSource, a benefits administration technology company serving over 4.5 million consumers in the US. All of these companies had successful exits over that time.
Mr. Riley earned a BA in Liberal Arts from Rollins College in 1982 and in 1984 a BS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech. He and his wife Laura met at Rollins College and have two children who attended Geneva beginning in kindergarten: Shannon (TGS Class of 2013, Furman University) and Brooke (TGS Class of 2015, Davidson College). The Riley family lives in Winter Park and they are members of Willow Creek Presbyterian Church in Winter Springs.
