John Anderson began his career in banking in 1970 with The First National Bank of Cincinnati in their Management Training Program. Subsequently, as Vice President and Eastern Regional Manager of Chemical Bank’s real estate subsidiary, he specialized in real estate lending and investment banking. In 1978, John formed his own development company to develop a new concept of Marriott Resorts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with Marriott Hotels and Aetna Life & Casualty as partners.

Since 1979, he has been a full member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI.org) where he is a Governor of the ULI Foundation and a frequent participant in the Advisory Service Panels (most recently for Bayou La Batre, Alabama; helping city leaders with post-Katrina building ideas), the Advisory Board for the College of Landscape Architecture at the University of Florida and the International Advisory Board of the Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard University.