About Us

John Caslione is the founder and President & CEO of GCS Business Capital LLC (GCS), with offices in Chicago, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Milan. Founded in 2005, GCS is a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisor to US, European, Chinese and other Asian middle market companies seeking to globalize their businesses through mergers, acquisitions and strategic equity joint ventures.

Prior to his founding of GCS, Mr. Caslione founded (1991) and served as President and CEO of Andrew-Ward International, Inc., an international management consulting firm specializing on assisting many US and Europe firms to globalize their businesses. 

Mr. Caslione has personally executed business development strategies in 87 countries on six continents including the US, Europe, China, India, Russia and CIS, Central Asia, the Middle East, Australia, SE Asia, South America and Africa for many companies, including ABB, Becton-Dickenson Biosciences, Caltex Lubricants, ExxonMobil Chemical Films, GE, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Philips N.V., RJ Reynolds Nabisco, Sandoz, and many more large and middle market firms.

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Caslione and Kotler collaborate on their first book-

“Chaotics™ :

The Business of Managing and Marketing in

The Age of Turbulence.”

A personal message from John Caslione:

Turbulence, risk and uncertainty are now the more normal condition of industries, markets and companies—the new normality, punctuated by periodic and intermittent spurts of prosperity and downturn.  And turbulence has two major effects.  One is Vulnerability, and it is against this that companies need defensive armor.  The other is Opportunity. 

Bad times are bad for many and good for some. Opportunity occurs when a strong company can take away a weaker competitor’s business or even to acquire a weakened competitor at a bargain price.  Opportunity is present when your company doesn’t cut critical costs—when all the other competitors do.

To counter the effects of turbulence and chaos in 2009, companies need a Chaotics management system—a system of new strategic behaviors—for dealing with the uncertainty that comes from turbulence’s chaos.  Dealing effectively with uncertainty now becomes an inescapable imperative in 2009.

Caslione speaks on Chaotics and helps business leaders better understand how to maneuver through turbulence, avoid chaos and exploit both to their advantage in this new age in which we’ve now entered—The Age of Turbulence