Prior to forming Bott-Anderson Partners, John K. Anderson Jr., was Executive Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Financial Officer for American Heritage Life Investment Company of Jacksonville, Florida from 1996-2002. American Heritage is a former NYSE listed group of life insurance companies now owned by Allstate, offering a full-line of life and voluntary health, disability and accident products, marketed primarily at the workplace.

From 1993 through 1995, Mr. Anderson was the Chief Executive Officer at E.G. Baldwin & Associates, Inc. in Cleveland, OH.. Baldwin is the dominant regional distributor of medical imaging products and services to hospitals and other medical providers in the six-state region from central Michigan to New Jersey.

From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Anderson was President and Chief Executive Officer at Capitol American Financial Corporation in Cleveland. Capitol American was a life and supplemental health insurance company whose products consisted primarily of cancer, accident, and heart insurance. It had 300 home office employees and over 2,000 producing agents in 47 states and two U.S. territories. Mr. Anderson took Capitol American public in 1992 through an initial public offering of stock which traded on the NYSE.

Mr. Anderson served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Baptist Health Systems, Inc. of Jacksonville from 1984 to 1990. Baptist Health Systems at that time was a $400 million healthcare system, which included three not-for-profit hospitals, a diversified for-profit health products and services company and an active foundation.

From 1982 to 1984, Mr. Anderson held the position of Senior Vice President and co-manager of all healthcare investment banking activities for the southeastern United States for Underwood, Neuhaus & Company, Inc. of Jacksonville, FL. From 1976 to 1982, Mr. Anderson served as Senior Vice President/manager of William G. Ceas & Company, a healthcare investment banking firm in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Prior to that, Mr. Anderson was a certified public accountant and senior auditor and consultant with Ernst & Ernst of Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. Anderson is a registered financial principal with the National Association of Security Dealers, a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), and a past certified public accountant. He is also Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the board of directors of FPIC Insurance Group (FPIC), a Jacksonville-based publicly traded medical malpractice insurance company and CNL Bank-First Coast, a Jacksonville based commercial bank. Also, John is a principal of Heritage Capital Group, a Jacksonville based middle market investment banking organization.

Mr. Anderson serves in leadership positions in a number of civic organizations. He is chairman of the board of Baptist Beaches Medical Center. He is a past treasurer of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, past member of the board of directors for the American Cancer Society of Jacksonville Beach, past member of the board of directors for the Catholic Foundation of the Diocese of St. Augustine and past treasurer of the board of directors of the MS Society of North Florida.

Mr. Anderson graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1970 with a degree in Business Administration/Accounting followed by a Masters Degree (Double Major) in Finance/Industrial Relations from Northwestern University in 1971.