About Monroe Street Group

John Nekus built Monroe Street Group to close the gap between the potential of AI and the reality of what most businesses actually get from it. His career spans 20+ years leading enterprise technology transformation at global scale, 13 years as a commercial real estate founder and operator, and a track record of deploying working systems that produce measurable outcomes across fintech, telecom, medical and dentistry, government, and professional services.

 Before founding MSG, John served as Chief Information Officer for TransUnion International, where he led IT operations across 11 countries and launched the company’s India offshore development center, reducing project costs and timelines by 50%. He orchestrated U.S. market entry for European IT firm CRIF through five strategic acquisitions, led the digital modernization of Ethiopia’s national credit reporting infrastructure under an IFC World Bank Group engagement, and directed the construction and operational launch of the Town of Chesterton’s municipal fiber optic broadband network. 

John is also the founding partner of Ascend Real Estate Advisors, a 13-year commercial real estate brokerage active in northwest Indiana and Chicago Metro, and host of The AREA Leaders Podcast, a short-format interview series with founders, operators, and CEOs about how they actually run their businesses. 

He is the author of Artificial Intelligence Made Easy published July 2024 under pen name                       N. Jonas Adam.

We do not sell generic AI frameworks. Every engagement starts with a structured executive discovery process that identifies exactly where applied AI will drive the most revenue and operational efficiency for your specific business.

MSG delivers deployed systems running in your environment, not reports and recommendations that leave implementation as your problem.

Our engagements are scoped to deliver operational value in weeks. We move fast because the business problems we solve cannot wait for multi-month enterprise timelines.

Every MSG engagement is backed by performance guarantees tied to measurable outcomes. We are accountable for what we deliver.

MSG was built by operators who have run businesses, closed deals, launched networks, integrated acquisitions, and deployed technology at scale. We bring operator judgment to every engagement.

If there is more growth and efficiency available in your business than you are currently capturing, we should start a conversation.

Every engagement starts with an executive discovery call. We use that conversation to understand your business, your operational context, and where applied AI might move the needle for you specifically. If there is a good fit, we move to a scoped engagement. If not, you still leave with a clearer view of where the opportunities are.

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