John Arundel is a born and raised Washingtonian, a graduate of Duke University, winning the Duke University Senior Leadership Award.  John did his graduate studies at Stanford and Johns Hopkins School in Advanced International Studies (SAIS). John has more than 30 years experience in media and investments, having written for The New York Times, Washington Post, and Miami Herald.  While working at The New York Times, John wrote for the National, Metro, Law, Science, and Business desks, and was mentored by Pullitzer Prize winning journalists Maureen Dowd and Thomas L. Friedman.  For the Washington Post Foreign Service, John was based in Cairo, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, where he covered the Persian Gulf War and its aftermath.  John worked for Citigroup Global Markets for 10 years as a Vice President of Investments, managing a $74 million portfolio.  He left Citigroup to launch and become Editor and Publisher of The Alexandria Times, a vibrant and up-market Metro Weekly that has won 54 first place awards from The Virginia Press Association.  For the past decade John was the Associate Publisher of Washington Life Magazine, the National Capitol Region's leading publication covering power, philanthropy and society, responsible for most of its integrated sales and marketing initiatives. In 2017, John launched Perdicus to better serve his clients.

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