John Lynch is an American entrepreneur, author and TEDx speaker who resides in Poland.  He arrived in 1991 as a volunteer to help rebuild the nation after fifty years of economic malpractice.  He was one of the first expatriates to launch a start-up in Poland in the aftermath of the fall of communism. John has travelled the former East Bloc countries extensively, and knows the region and its peoples intimately.  John has Polish roots – his great-grandmother was from Białystok.  He is fluent in Polish.

In 2014, John was awarded the highest civilian honor, the Presidential Order of the Gold Cross from the President of Poland, for his contributions to building Poland’s free market economy.  John is former Entrepreneur of the Year.   

John has an engineering degree from Lehigh University and an MBA from The Wharton School.   John was a regular columnist for The Warsaw Business Journal and Images – a UK apparel magazine. 

He lives with his wife Kasia, and two children Jakub and Zofia outside Krakow. The Ark is his literary debut.