Brett M. Johnson is an American businessman, founder and CEO of Benevolent Capital, which invests in professional sports, real estate, private equity, and venture capital. He is also the founder and partner of Fortuitous Partners.
Johnson owns or invests in several football clubs, including
Ipswich Town F.C.
Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. They play in EFL League One, League One, the third tier of the English football league system.
The club was founded in 1878 but did not ...
,
Phoenix Rising FC., and
Rhode Island FC
Rhode Island FC is an upcoming American professional soccer club located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The club is planned to debut in the USL Championship in 2024.
History
On December 2, 2019, it was announced that a new soccer-specific stadiu ...
.
Brett Johnson received his Undergraduate Degree from
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
and MBA from
Pepperdine University.
Johnson began his professional career as an associate at
Montgomery Securities
Montgomery Securities was an investment bank based in San Francisco, California, that specialized in high technology and health care sectors. The firm was founded in 1978 by Thom Weisel.
The bank was acquired by NationsBank Corporation on Jun ...
in 1994, where he worked for one year. He then joined Targus, a global mobile computing accessories company, where he held several positions over ten years, including sales director, managing director for Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, and president.
Brett Johnson founded Benevolent Capital in 2005, a private equity fund with investments in real estate, manufacturing, and consumer brands, and has been serving as CEO since its inception.
In August 2010, Johnson became CEO of Forward Industries, a NASDAQ-listed company that designs and markets accessories for consumer electronics, where he served until August 2012. He then joined
Greenwood & Hall
Greenwood Hall was a publicly traded educational technology company that provided cloud-based people and technology-enabled solutions designed to help post-secondary institutions better manage the student lifecycle. Greenwood Hall was headquarte ...
, an education management company, serving as president from 2013 to 2015. Concurrently, from 2012 to 2015, Johnson was a board member at
Blyth Inc., a multichannel direct selling company.
In 2014, he graduated from the
Harvard Business School's President's Leadership Program.
In 2015, he cofounded and became president and co-chairman of
Phoenix Rising Football Club (then known as Arizona United SC).
In 2018, Johnson founded Fortuitous Partners, that invests in sports related real estate developments, including Tidewater Landing stadium and development in
Rhode Island.
He was the director of the Danish football club
Helsingør from 2019 until August 2022.
Johnson became director and shareholder of the professional English football club Ipswich Town FC in 2021.
In 2022, he co-founded and became chairman of the Rhode Island FC. Johnson is a member of the board of trustees for Choate Rosemary Hall. He is also a Senior Fellow in Entrepreneurship and sits on the Board of Visitors for the
Graziadio School of Business at Pepperdine University. He is an active member of the
Young Presidents' Organization.
Private life
Brett M. Johnson is married and has three children.
He resides in
Los Angeles.
References
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Living people
American businesspeople
American investors
Brown University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)