{"id":3757,"date":"2019-09-05T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itadsummit.com\/?page_id=3757"},"modified":"2021-07-15T07:19:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T11:19:44","slug":"john-shegerian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itadsummit.com\/index.php\/john-shegerian\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio: John Shegerian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h1 data-animate-in=\"up\">John Shegerian<\/h1>\n<h6 data-animate-in=\"up\" data-animate-in-delay=\"100\">KEYNOTE SPEAKER<br \/>Chairman &#038; CEO<br \/>ERI<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itadsummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/john-shegerian-bw.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John Shegerian&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;CEO&lt;br \/&gt;ERI Direct &lt;\/p&gt;\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"312\" width=\"312\" title=\"john-shegerian-bw\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<h1>John Shegerian<\/h1>\n<h3>Keynote Speaker<br \/>\nChairman &#038; CEO, ERI<\/h3>\n\t<h1><strong>ABOUT JOHN<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>John Shegerian is a serial social entrepreneur who focuses on solving global problems through game changing innovation to build successful, socially responsible impact companies.<\/p>\n<p>As cofounder and Executive Chairman of <a href=\"https:\/\/eridirect.com\/\">ERI<\/a>, he has played a significant role in paving the way for the electronic recycling and ITAD industries as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Building ERI from the ground up, Shegerian has helped lead ERI to its current standing as the largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company in the United States. Under his stewardship, ERI now has the capacity to process more than a billion pounds of electronic waste annually at its eight certified locations, serving every zip code in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Shegerian is also a sought-after speaker, panelist and electronic recycling and ITAD industry authority, presenting \u201cstate of the industry\u201d analyses at events all over the world, including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. He has also authored articles on the industry for Recycling Today, E-Scrap News and various business journals and regularly provides his expert knowledge to news media, including The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Newsweek, Forbes, Gizmodo and Wired, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Shegerian is currently a member of the University of Pennsylvania <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wharton.upenn.edu\/\">Wharton School of Business\u2019<\/a> Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) Advisory Board and was named the Clean Tech Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California by Ernst &amp; Young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\" class=\"post-excerpt\">John Shegerian KEYNOTE SPEAKERChairman &#038; CEOERI John Shegerian Keynote Speaker Chairman &#038;&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itadsummit.com\/index.php\/john-shegerian\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bio: John Shegerian&#8221;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itadsummit.com\/index.php\/john-shegerian\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Bio: John Shegerian\"<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3757","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bio: John Shegerian - ITAD Summit - Las Vegas - August 2026 - Conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itadsummit.com\/index.php\/john-shegerian\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bio: John Shegerian - ITAD Summit - Las Vegas - August 2026 - Conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Shegerian KEYNOTE SPEAKERChairman &#038; 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