Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Jonathan Johnson has been the chairman of Overstock's board of directors since April 2014, transitioning to the position after five years as the company's president and later the acting CEO and executive vice chairman of the board. Johnson joined Overstock in 2002 as the company's general counsel, and has held various business and legal related positions within the company prior being named president. During this time, he has been an integral part of Overstock's meteoric growth from a small start-up to a publicly-traded company with $1.3 billion in sales and over 1,500 employees.

In addition to his duties at Overstock, Johnson is a member of the Better Business Bureau's National Partner Leadership Circle, the executive committee of the Board of Trustees of the Utah Technology Council, the board of directors of the Utah Foundation and the Board of Governors of the Salt Lake Chamber. He was also the founding chairman of the Salt Lake Chamber's Clean Air Task Force, a group dedicated to protecting and improving Utah's air quality.

Prior to joining Overstock, Johnson was with TenFold Corporation in various positions, including CFO and General Counsel. Before that, he practiced corporate law in Los Angeles with two international law firms. He also served as a judicial clerk at the Utah Supreme Court.

Johnson received a Bachelor's Degree in Japanese from Brigham Young University, studied at Osaka University of Foreign Studies in Japan as a Ministry of Education Scholar, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the J. Ruben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.