About Us

David S. Johnson

David began his career with major consumer products companies. He was with Avon for 12 years where he pioneered the use of testing and in-depth interviewing techniques to select and train the nationwide Avon sales management team.

In 1985, he entered the executive search field with McManners Associates. His clients were Fortune 100 companies such as General Instrument, Rockwell, and UTC. In 1990, he became part of the start-up of Imcor, the interim management recruiting company.

In the early 90's with Imcor, his work focused on turnaround and crisis management for clients such as GE Capital and several New York area private equity firms. In the late 90's, he continued working with private equity and venture capital firms focused on evaluating and recruiting executors for early stage growth companies as well as basic industrial companies. He worked with HR Consulting companies to develop metrics for predicting success of executives in highly leveraged, growth companies. This work is the basis of the assessment tools used by DSJ today.

In 2000 he established D.S. Johnson & Associates with the sponsorship of his long-term client, Hampshire Equity Partners.

In addition to Hampshire, he has on-going client relationships with several middle-market private equity funds and turnaround management firms.

Susan Ward

Susan Ward's association with D.S. Johnson & Associates began in 2001. Working independently since 1993, she did identification and candidate development projects for several retained search firms.

Her prior experience was in the computer industry where she was responsible for financial leasing and brokerage for Itel, Amdahl and Storagetek.

Susan has a BS Degree from Wesley College.