John Abele is the co-founder and chairman of Boston Scientific, a medical device company.
His father, LCDR Mannert Lincoln Abele, USN was Commanding Officer of the submarine USS Grunion when she was lost in the Aleutians on July 31, 1942 presumably to enemy action. He funded research to locate it, which may have been found in the Bering Sea.

Abele co-founded Boston Scientific with Peter Nicholas.

He is a graduate of Amherst College.