Primary Job Title Co-Founder, Director & President Primary Organization 
American Clean Coal Fuels
Location White Salmon, Washington, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Johnson has been an outspoken proponent of the environmentally responsible development of a domestic synthetic fuels industry. Prior to his co-founding of ACCF, through Stonebridge Asset Management, the hedge fund company he owned and operated, Johnson acted for a time as the only financial analyst publicly covering domestic US FT technology and
the early stages of development of a domestic US Coal To Liquids industry.
Using his own unique investment philosophy, his hedge fund achieved excellent returns, his strategy yielding a return of 327.84% net of fees between the start of 2002 and the end of 2006 (5 years), or 33.73% annualized, dramatically out-performing the market averages, and all applicable benchmark indexes.
Applying the industry knowledge and contacts acquired through his investment research, he then went on to spearhead the development of American Clean Coal Fuels, growing it from bare concept to become one of the country's leading synthetic fuels project development companies.
He possesses a strong knowledge of a diverse array of fields including finance, oil and energy markets, gasification and Fischer Tropsch process technologies, general alternative fuels processes and technologies.
Johnson was homeschooled, and began taking college courses at age 14. His initial focus was on computers, but it shifted to business and finance on the beginning of his study of the stock market. He graduated from Portland State University where he earned a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration: Finance at age 20, the university's youngest graduating student that term.
In addition to his focus within the synthetic fuels space, Johnson has strong interests in the area of sustainability, having been involved early in the grassroots community effort Portland Peak Oil Awareness, which resulted in the Portland City Council appointing a peak oil taskforce and study group to aid and inform local and regional planning. That task force's work succeeded in motivating the city council to adopt a resolution to cut the Portland metro area's oil consumption dramatically.
Johnson has also assisted in capital raising and led buy-side Due Diligence efforts in the early financing rounds for Lightfleet, a Camas Washington based company developing optical interconnect technologies for dense computer server environments, leading to major efficiency gains and reduction of power use in computer server farms.
