David Johnson

Our newly created team, headed by my colleague Philippe d'Hémery, provides liquidity solutions to private equity investors and managers. We are active in the three principal segments of the private equity secondary market: 1) the sale of limited partnership interests in one or more private equity funds, 2) the sale of portfolios of underlying private equity fund investments, and 3) "stapled" operations combining a secondary market sale with a new subscription to a successor fund managed by the same team. With more than 12 years of experience in private equity secondaries,the new Tradition Private Equity team offers its clients the benefit of an entrepreneurial culture combined with the institutional support of the Tradition group - a global broker of financial and non-financial products with offices in 27 countries, more than 3000 institutional clients and 2200 employees, and revenues in excess of €1 billion.

Carta Diem is a Paris based boutique M&A and consulting firm active in the secondary market for private equity investments.

Todosport was an Internet start-up company which grew rapidly to become the leading network of professional sports team and player/athlete websites in Latin America with offices in 5 countries; principal assets sold to Umbro.com in September 2000. • Raised $1.7 million in seed financing from leading Latin American private equity investors, and secured $6.5 million in second round financing commitments from Citicorp Venture Capital and Grupo Pegaso. • Closed exclusive Internet content and marketing agreements with more than 40 professional sports teams, associations and players in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. • Led design, development and launch of a network of more than 30 customized, data-base supported sports franchise web-sites in English, Spanish and Portuguese • Built and managed a team of over 90 Internet content & sports marketing professionals in 5 offices across the region.

As a founding executive of this leading pan-European Internet sports portal, • Drafted company's business plan used to raise first round of capital from Europ@Web, Nomura, Andell, Global Retail Partners, and 3i • Led sports club negotiations and strategic business partner relationship development in key markets of France, Spain and Italy, leading to signature of the company's first major sports club contract, with the Paris Saint-Germain soccer team. • Developed strategy for and hired country management for France and Spain.

Spearheaded Canal ’s development and pre-launch operations in Latin America until strategic challenges in core European businesses led to a decision to discontinue all extra-European expansion efforts. • Negotiated over $30 million in development capital for the Latin American start-up from US, European and Latin American private equity investors. • Recruited a highly talented and motivated multi-national senior management team, and worked with them to define and implement strategies for programming, production, marketing & promotion, subscription sales and administration, technical support (transmission, studio facilities, encryption/conditional access), finance and administration, and general business development. • Lobbied for and obtained necessary municipal and national governmental approvals. • Negotiated key contracts for broadcast frequencies and tower transmission facilities, program broadcast rights, encryption and access control technology, and studio facilities.

Reporting to the Group’s CFO with a dotted line to the Group’s Vice-Chairman for International Development, held overall responsibility for financial control, reporting, treasury, tax and all other financial functions of the Group’s foreign subsidiaries and affiliates. Managed relations and communications with foreign analysts and investors. Researched, analyzed, structured and negotiated cross-border financing and strategic partnership agreements totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in multiple sectors of the Group’s business, including television & film production and distribution and ad-supported and subscription TV broadcasting.

Latin American Corporate Finance, New York, NY Country Lead - Central America & Caribbean • Negotiated and structured numerous debt-for-equity (and other local resources) exchange transactions in Honduras, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Guatemala. • Maintained a market for the tradable debt instruments of these countries. • Solicited, negotiated and executed mandates for mergers and acquisitions, debt restructurings and project finance for clients in the region.

Consumer Banking Group, Milan, Italy • Analyzed and recommended action on acquisition and joint venture opportunities to supplement the Bank's acquisition of the leading consumer bank in southern Italy. • Supported management of the newly acquired bank with balance sheet and product profitability analyses and recommendations for pricing, product design and general resource allocation priorities.

Concerto Solutions is a real-estate marketing solutions company that builds and designs web-based marketing tools for real estate professionals.

Rotary Scholarship