Mr. Johnson works closely with the company's senior leadership to develop and implement local, regional and global growth strategies. He is a seasoned, senior strategist who plays a key role in acquiring major new clients and expanding existing client relationships. He also serves on the company's International Advisory Council (IAC).

Mr. Johnson served as President and CEO of SP Consulting, the Strategic Communications and Public Affairs division of Strategic Partnerships LLC, a DC-headquartered business consulting firm serving the Fortune 500, as well as healthcare, technology, leading higher education, energy, and nonprofit organizations for over three decades. As President and CEO, Mr. Johnson is responsible for all of SP Consulting’s business operations, including client relationship management, business and talent acquisition, as well as formulating and executing the company’s strategic growth plans.

Mr. Johnson founded kglobal an international business consultancy with offices in Washington, DC, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Brussels. The firm specializes in public affairs, grassroots marketing and advocacy, social and digital media, branding, and international political campaigns. In 2011, under Mr. Johnson’s leadership, kglobal was named the industry’s “Best New Agency” by The Holmes Report.

Mr. Johnson served as Vice Chairman of Interpoint Group, a Pegasus Capital portfolio company. In this position he identified strategic acquisitions and built-out an organic hub-and-spoke operation with key services and geographies.

From 1986 to 2009, Mr. Johnson served as Vice Chairman, Global Growth and President of Public Affairs, at FleishmanHillard (FH), a division of Omnicom. During his 23-year career at FH, one of the world’s largest strategic communication companies, Mr. Johnson held several key leadership positions at the highly respected firm, which included management responsibility for the campaign firms GMMB and Mercury – companies that played central roles in both Democratic and Republican Presidential races over the last six election cycles. Additional highlights of his portfolio of positions and responsibilities at FH included: co-chair of the firm’s executive management committee; leader of the company’s 32 diverse practice groups; and director of the firm’s external growth drivers. While at FH, Mr. Johnson was also responsible for the selection, vetting and management of the firm’s strategic acquisitions in addition to the creation of the company’s highly regarded international advisory board, whose distinguished members included Secretary Leon Panetta, Secretary Mickey Kantor, Secretary Louis Sullivan, Secretary Andy Card, Secretary Tom Ridge, Commissioner David Kessler, and Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Mr. Johnson began his career as a senior staff executive for U.S. Congressman Gene Chappie (R-CA). From 1980 to 1986, Mr. Johnson was responsible for managing the Congressman’s legislative activities and Congressional committee assignments as the Congressman’s Chief of Staff.