John Henry Silva

John Henry Silva (born 1980) is an Entrepreneur and Investor in life-saving solutions.
 

Silva has executed transactions including venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and divestments at Tufts Health Plan, ReMed Life Sciences, Partners Healthcare, Aga Khan Foundation, iRobot, and Millhouse Capital. In 2015, he was named 40 Under 40 in Healthcare Leadership by Medtech Boston.

Silva has written and been featured in the Boston Globe,

Le Courrier, MIT Entrepreneurship Review, Boston World Partnerships, Harvard Crimson and Bloomberg. Previously he was a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has published academic research at iRobot and Harvard Business School,. He also was an editor for Humanism and Business, published by Cambridge University Press.

Silva served in the US Marine Corps and served at The White House Duty during the Administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He served in over 25 domestic and international trips supporting Presidential Travel Operations. He is a recipient of the Presidential Service Badge.

Silva's maternal and paternal family are political refugees from Gdańsk, Poland and Havana, Cuba respectively. His mother, Barbara Dworzycki, toured the Soviet Union in 1964 with the Oberlin College Choir.

• “Ask the Experts: Startup Advice” Medtech Boston, 2015
• “A Guide to Innovation Diplomacy” Boston Globe, 2013
• “Boston Startup Musters $5M in Venture Capital” (Quoted) Boston Herald, 2013
• “Innovation and Cross-Pollination Networking” Boston Globe, 2012
• “Social Fortress, the First Privacy Protection for Facebook and Email” (Quoted) Bloomberg News, 2011
• "Building a Better America - One Wealth Quintile at a Time", Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2011
• “Investigating Urbanism and Entrepreneurship” MIT Entrepreneurship Review, 2010
• Editor, Humanism and Business. Cambridge University Press, 2009
• “Soldiers Discuss Military Service” (Quoted) Harvard Crimson, 2006