John Thomas Connor

Mr. Connor founded Third Millennium in October 1998.
In August 2003, and again in August 2006, he was ranked No.
1 Portfolio Manager in the U.S.
by the annual Barron’s/Value Line survey.
He is a member of the board of directors of Teton Energy, based in Denver Colorado.
He acts as Chairman of its Audit Committee.
During its start up year, he was the president of Mail.ru, Russia’s leading Internet portal with over 15 million registered users.
Earlier, he headed the Moscow office of the US-USSR Trade & Economic Council, having been deputy director of the US Commerce Dept.’s Bureau of East-West Trade.
Trained as a lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, he was a partner in leading law firms in New York, Washington, and New Jersey.
In the 1980’s he was a member of the Management Committee and general counsel of a New York Stock Exchange-listed company.
In the 1990’s he was general counsel to Micros Systems Inc., having been on its Board of Directors and Chairman of its Audit Committee for ten years.
Mr. Connor, member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1973, graduated from Williams College, Phi Beta Kappa, with highest honors, after which he taught on a Fulbright grant at Fergusson College in Pune, India, and from Harvard Law School.