Gregg C. Johnson, President and CEO

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Mr. Johnson comes to Summit Capital having had a distinguished career in law and business over the past 20 years. Mr. Johnson is a lawyer (not admitted in AZ) with extensive experience in management of entrepreneurial companies. He received his law degree in 1988 from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada and was admitted as a lawyer in Alberta Canada in 1989. His extensive legal career includes a private practice in Tokyo, Japan with Aoki, Christensen & Nomoto (now Baker & McKenzie), where his practice focused on Japanese securities regulation and international debt instruments, and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with the Law Offices of Dr. Mujahid M. Al-Sawwaf, where he acted as Outside Middle East Counsel to many fortune 500 companies. Mr. Johnson’s career has included experience in corporate finance, merchant banking and venture capital for emerging growth companies across Canada and the United State

Mr. Johnson has been instrumental in building and growing many successful companies over the past 20 years, and he has been an officer and director of numerous Canadian and U.S. public companies. Additionally, Mr. Johnson was elected as a Councillor, and later Mayor of Red Deer County, AB from October 1998 to October 2004. In October 2004, Mr. Johnson was appointed as  Appeals Commissioner (Administrative Law Judge) with the Alberta Appeals Commission where he served part-time until April 2007. Through Summit Capital, Mr. Johnson has been seconded to positions as an officer and director of numerous small to mid-sized public companies. He has held key executive management rolls in many high-growth enterprises across a wide variety of industries and in these roles Mr. Johnson has actively managed and guided the growth paths for many client companies, including the transition of many clients into the public domain through an IPO or reverse merger process.