Candidate Biography (submitted by candidate):

John Aneralla moved to Mecklenburg County in 1986 to begin his career in the financial services industry. He and his wife of over 21 years Nancy and their children have lived in Huntersville since 1997.
He is a 1984 graduate of the University of Georgia, attending on a full athletic swimming scholarship and earned his MBA in management from Hofstra University in 1986.

John has been in the financial services industry for 24 years. In 1997, he established an investor relations consulting firm for small publicly traded and private companies. In the fall of 2004, he established Bulldog Asset Management, Inc., an investment advisory firm specializing in asset allocation to achieve individual client needs.

Through his membership at Davidson United Methodist Church, John teaches Sunday school and volunteers for a variety of charities. In 2008, he received the Empowerment Community Award from the Westside Organization for his charity work with New Outreach Ministry.

A lifelong competitive swimmer, John has been active in coaching swimming at all levels of competition as well as coaching youth basketball and soccer.

He was the Mecklenburg County Republican Party Chairman from 2004-2007 and recently served as the 9th Congressional District Republican Chairman from 2007-2010.

I am running to preserve North Carolina's status as one of the best places to live, work, play and raise a family in the United States. This can be achieved with common sense solutions and by lowering taxes, cutting wasteful government spending, less regulations, improving education and roads and a State government that is 'of the people, by the people and for the people'.