John Duckworth is the president and managing partner of True Title Company, LLC. In addition, Duckworth serves as president of Title Exchange Services, LLC, a 1031 Exchange Accommodation firm, as well as vice president of QDraw, Inc., a construction disbursing agency. In recognition of the rapid growth and success of True Title, John was recognized by the St. Louis Business Journal as a “40-Under-40” in 2016.

He received a BS in Marketing and BA in Spanish from the University of Missouri. Mr. Duckworth is a distinguished veteran of the title insurance industry; he has served on the education committees for both the Missouri and Kansas land title associations and served on the Board of Directors for the MLTA. He is a regular instructor for continuing education programs in the real estate & title industry, and he also prepared the Study Guide for the Missouri Department of Insurance Title Insurance Producer’s Examination, the accepted study guide for new title professionals across the state of Missouri. Mr. Duckworth began his career in the title industry in 2002 as a title examiner and policy department manager, and before leaving to build True Title, he served as president for a large title agency based in St. Louis, Missouri with operations in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois & New York. Prior to his beginnings in the title industry, Mr. Duckworth worked in Prague, Czech Republic as a global networking consultant for a venture capital firm. In that position, he helped locate start-up software firms for investment, and manage these firms’ entries into foreign markets around the world.