John was born November 16, 1962, in Queens, New York. He is an entrepreneur, environmental and social issues activist, international public speaker and the Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International® (ERI). Established in 2002, ERI is an Electronic Waste collector and recycler, specializing in the environmentally safe and socially responsible dismantling of electronic items such as computers, televisions, monitors, cell phones, and other unwanted or obsolete electronic items. ERI is largely recognized as the leading recycler of electronics in the state of California and one of the largest in North America. John, like ERI, is based in Fresno, California.

Prior to his successful venture with ERI, Shegerian was co-founder and CMO of www.finanicialaid.com, one of the most successful student loan companies in the country. While at financialaid.com, Shegerian created www.rateyourcampus.com (a college student polling and feedback community) which then led to the creation of www.campusdirt.com (which evolved into the most trafficked college search engine). Later, www.campusclix.com was created and became one of the first college social networking properties on the web.

In October 2004 Shegerian and his partners sold financialaid.com and all the aforementioned affiliated properties to Education Lending Group, which was purchased for $400M in February 2005 by CIT (NYSE: CIT). In the website business sector, Shegerian went on to create and Addicted.com, a comprehensive, interactive website dedicated to helping those struggling with the disease of addiction.

For his work with ERI, Shegerian was named the Clean Tech Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California by Ernst & Young in 2008 and is a national finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year honors.

John is now working on 1800Recycling.com – a site where you can find the location near you to recycle anything you have.