John Henry Silva

John Henry Silva (born 1980, in Chicago, Illinois) is a Veteran, Entrepreneur and Humanist. He has been featured in the Boston Globe, MIT Entrepreneurship Review, Boston World Partnerships, Harvard Crimson and Bloomberg.

Family and Education

Silva was born November 17, 1980 and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. His maternal and paternal family are political refugees from Gdansk, Poland and Havana, Cuba respectively. His mother, Barbara Dworzycki, toured the Soviet Union in 1964 with the Oberlin College Choir. His grandfather, Manuel Silva, was a friend of Ernest Hemingway. His cousin, Al Montoya, is the first Cuban American in the National Hockey League. Silva graduated from Hawthorne Scholastic Academy, New Trier High School and Harvard University.

The White House

Silva enlisted as a US Marine rifleman and served on Yankee White Duty at The White House 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 also served in Washington, DC during 9/11 and was deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Entrepreneurship

Silva is a serial entrepreneur and was Founder of QuorumPR, TechPolitique , Incunation , Planetary Emissions Management, and Boston Life International School. He has published academic research at iRobot and Harvard Business School in human-robot interaction and marketing psychology.

Humanism

While at Harvard University, Silva became an agnostic humanist He served on the Board of Directors for the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University and wrote and edited works on Humanism including Humanism and Business published by Cambridge University Press.

See also

• Agnosticism
• Harvard University
• Socrates

External links

• John Henry Silva, MIT Entrepreneurship Review
• John Henry Silva, Interview with Boston World Partnerships
• John Henry Silva, Interview with Tim Rowe, CEO of Cambridge Innovation Center
• John Henry Silva, Neo-Humanist Statement of Secular Principles and Values
• John Henry Silva, Harvard Crimson
• John Henry Silva, Cambridge University Press
• John Henry Silva, Facebook
• John Henry Silva, Twitter