John is the founder and Executive Chairman of Forbright Bank, and the Chairman and CEO of Forbright, Inc.

By the age of 40, John had founded and led two New York Stock Exchange listed financial services companies. In 1993, he founded HealthCare Financial Partners Inc., which provided loans to small to mid-sized healthcare service companies. The company completed its initial public offering in 1996 and was sold in 1999 for 3X its IPO price. HealthCare Financial Partners made over 1,000 loans and experienced no credit losses. In 2000, John founded CapitalSource Inc., which at the time was the most highly capitalized private equity-backed start-up in history.  CapitalSource operated several specialty commercial lending businesses, became a public company in 2003, and John served as Chairman and CEO until his decision to pursue public office in 2012. All told, Delaney’s companies made over $30 billion of loans to over 5,000 small to mid-sized companies and outperformed their peers in total shareholder return.

In 2012, John was elected to represent Maryland’s Sixth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. During his six years in Congress, he earned praise for his bipartisan approach to economic, trade, foreign, housing and environmental policy. He was a member of the Financial Services Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, and he co-founded the Artificial Intelligence Caucus. In 2013, he was elected co-president of his freshman class of 85 new members of Congress. In 2019, John stepped down from Congress to pursue an unsuccessful run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

John is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Geographic Society and the Bipartisan Policy Center, he is a Senior Advisor to Galvanize LLC and Revolution LLC and was a past member of the Board of Directors of Georgetown University, the Board of Trustees of the Potomac School, and past Chairman of the Board of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School.

John received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and in 1988 his law degree from Georgetown Law Center. John and his wife, Congresswoman April McClain-Delaney, met as law students at Georgetown. Representative McClain-Delaney has been serving in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2025 and has more than 25 years of communications law and child advocacy experience in both private sector and non-profit engagements. John and April have four daughters and one grandson.