Mr. Johnson is a shareholder with the Salt Lake City law firm of Kirton & McConkie. Prior to joining Kirton & McConkie, Mr. Johnson was Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Daw Technologies, an international company specializing in the design, fabrication and construction of clean rooms for the electronics and pharmaceutical industries. From May 1999 to November 2000, Mr. Johnson was Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Venturi Technologies, Inc., which was one of the nation's largest independent and only publicly traded carpet cleaning company. Prior to joining Venturi Technologies, Mr. Johnson was engaged in the private practice of law as "Of Counsel" with the Salt Lake City law firm of Mackey, Price & Williams from 1997 to 1999, and as a partner in the Salt Lake City law firm of Fabian & Clendenin from 1988 to 1997. During the period 1987 to 1988 he was associated with the San Jose, California, law firm of Rosenblum, Parish and Bacagalupi; from 1985 to 1987 he was Securities Counsel for the Fox Group of Companies in San Mateo, California; and from 1983 to 1985 he was an associate with the San Francisco law firm of Sedgwick, Detert Moran & Arnold. From 1980 to 1983 Mr. Johnson was an associate with Snow, Christensen and Martineau in Salt Lake City. Mr. Johnson is a member of the State Bar of California and the Utah State Bar. He received an A.B. from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. |