Guy Johnson is an English businessman, the former third business partner in

Carphone Warehouse The Carphone Warehouse Limited was a mobile phone retailer based in London, United Kingdom. In August 2014 the company became a subsidiary of Currys plc (previously named "Dixons Carphone"), which was formed by the merger of its former parent Ca ...

. He is estimated to have a fortune of £156 million, ranking him 546 in the

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of 2008. After the business was founded by

Charles Dunstone Sir Charles William Dunstone (born 21 November 1964) is the British co-founder and former chairman of mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse, former chairman of multinational electrical and telecommunications retailer and services company Dix ...

with £6,000 savings, he asked Johnson to join him as the second partner. Johnson, a former customer of Dunstone's at

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UK, became the second partner when he joined the fledgling business, taking up the role of Logistics and Distribution director. When David Ross lead the

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of Carphone Warehouse in 2000, it had been so successful that the partners had not needed to borrow or involve outsiders: Dunstone owned half, Johnson a third, and Ross most of the rest. However, only Johnson of the three partners had a family, and having according to media reports becoming less enamoured by the Ross-led European expansion of the organisation, sold the majority of his stake in 2001 and retired with his young family to his holiday home in

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. He now lives with his family in Kent.

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