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Scott Johnson
Founder and CEO
Scott was trained as a securities analyst and has been a Wall Street equity research analyst. Scott's mentor was Jim Rogers, George Soros' original partner. Scott was a member of Institutional Investor rated teams at both Salomon Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch (Merrill team rated #2 on Wall Street, according to Institutional Investor). Transactions of note that he worked on included the landmark $89 billion acquisition of Warner Lambert, the $3 billion purchase of Saks Fifth Avenue by Saks Incorporated, and equity offerings by Estée Lauder and Gillette. Scott complements his financial orientation with operating experience, having served as CFO of an early stage in-store services company.
Scott completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Columbia University. He received an MBA in finance and MIA (Masters of International Affairs). He also holds a BA from Columbia where he was a Martin Fischbein Fellow. He has lectured on entrepreneurship and finance at New York University.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also affiliated with Lead21, The Atlantic Council, The Association for Corporate Growth, and The American Enterprise Institute. He is a co-author of the Atlantic Council Roundtable Study, "The Transatlantic Economy in 2020: A Partnership for the Future?”. He is listed in the 2004 Marquis' Who's Who of America.
He speaks fluent French and is conversant in Spanish and Italian. Scott lives in New York . He is a competitive marathon runner who runs for the Central Park Track Club and anchored the team that won the 2003 Montauk Sprint Triathlon and the 2005 New York City Triathlon.
To contact Scott, scott@sjpartners.com
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