John J. Ghaznavi is the Chairman and CEO of G & G Investments, Inc., the third largest glass container manufacturing company in the world with more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide. A graduate of the University of West Virginia in engineering, he has pursued a business career along with extensive charity work. In 1996, Ernst & Young, PNC Bank and USA Today named him Master Entrepreneur of the Year.

John Ghaznavi was named the Financial Times of Canada's No. 1 Investor Friendly CEO. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Glass Packaging Institute and is Chairman of the G.M.P. Employers Retiree Trust. Mr. Ghaznavi is a member of the  Board of Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society. For his charity works, Mr. Ghaznavi has received seven consecutive Gold Awards from the United Way.