Vice Chairman Global Growth And President Of Public Affairs
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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.