John Posavatz
Board Member
John Posavatz was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Croatian immigrant parents, both of whom served as early board members of the Croatian Fraternal Union of America (CFU) Lodge 1. Starting at age four, he spent much of his youth performing across the US and in Europe as a member of the Mladi Hrvati Tamburitzans. John went on to study Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and subsequently Economics at the The University of Texas.
He has spent the entirety of his career in the high tech field, serving in various leadership roles at several early-stage software startups, as Vice President of Product Management at The Neverfail Group, Senior Director of Business and Studio Operations at Electronic Arts (EA), and Senior Product Manager at Amazon. He is currently involved in cutting-edge Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (GenAI) technologies as a Senior Product Lead at Google.
John joined the Tamburitzans Board of Directors in 2019, and currently chairs the Technology committee.