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Ray O. Johnson is an American business executive. Johnson is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, an American venture capital firm with over $20 billion under management and the oldest venture capital firm in the United States. He recently served as the chief executive officer of the Technology Innovation Institute and of ASPIRE, both based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Before that, he served as the Lockheed Martin Corporation's chief technology officer and corporate senior vice president for engineering, technology, and operations.
Early life and education
Johnson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. In 2010, the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology presented him with a Hall of Fame award.
He went on to study at the Air Force Institute of Technology, where he earned a Master of Science in electrical engineering in 1987, and in 1993, he received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He received the Distinguished Alumni award from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 2010.
Career
Johnson joined the U.S. Air Force in 1975. He served in several Major Commands including the Tactical Air Command, Electronic Security Command, Strategic Air Command, and Air Force Materiel Command. He retired from the Air Force in 1996.
Johnson has experience in a variety of executive positions, including the senior vice president and business unit general manager at SAIC, senior vice president and chief operating officer at Modern Technology Solutions, Inc, and corporate senior vice president for engineering, technology, and operations and chief technology officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. In this role, Johnson was responsible for more than 72,000 people and 4,000 programs.
Other activities
Johnson is a Full Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi.
Johnson served on the Department of the Air Force's Scientific Advisory Board from 2001 till 2005. He was a member of the governing board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative. In 2014, Johnson received the Maurice Holland Award for the article "Tools for Managing Early-Stage Business Model Innovation," which he co-authored with Lockheed's VP of international engineering and technology, John D. Evans, and published in Research-Technology Management in late-2013.
From 2009 to 2014, Johnson attended the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. In 2009, he served on the New Frontiers of Conflict panel. In 2010, he served on the Rethinking the Global Commons: Space panel and the Space Security Council. He served on The Science Agenda session at the 2011 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting as the industry's representative.
For the 2012 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, he was a member of the Davos Open Forum panel, A Day Without Satellites. In 2013, Johnson participated in four World Economic Forum Annual Meeting sessions: Manufacturing for Growth – Strategies for Driving Growth and Employment; Cyber Resilience, where he led a Critical Infrastructure Protection group; Hyperconnected World Cross-Industry CEO Session; and Future of Space session.
References
External links
Ray_O_Johnson on Twitter
Ray_O_Johnson on LinkedIn
United States Naval Academy Forrestal Lecture
Visit with Fabien Cousteau inside of Aquarius Reef Base during Mission 31
Climate Week NYC 2014
Engineering.com interview at the USA Science and Engineering Festival
Ray Johnson on 2010 USA Science and Engineering Festival
United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Report on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Perspective: Effects, Capabilities, and Technologies
Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
DST - Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program
USA Science and Engineering Festival
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