John Ferry is Founder/CEO of Prosperity Earth, a vertically-integrated mining and gem-cutting company. His company is a world leader in traceable and sustainable colored gemstone mining bringing world-class products to market and prosperity to communities through full-time on-the-ground presence with professionalized mining. In Madagascar since 2008, a Harvard graduate – BA cum laude ’98 – and alum of Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development ‘12 – John proudly introduces this incomparable, beautiful gemstone – Prosperity DEMANTOID. John was CEO of an award-winning Madagascar chocolate and vanilla company, and prior spent a decade on Wall St notably as Managing Director at Merrill Lynch.