Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson

Chief Executive Officer @ Orion Business Advisors

About

I love to build and grow companies: - Proven executive leader with a track-record of delivering excellent results - Focused on growing new and existing businesses. - Deep experience across all facets of sports, entertainment, and esports / gaming - Strengths in strategy creation, strategic partnerships, media distribution, emerging areas, e.g. digital media, International expansion, betting strategy, and new tech ideas - Top 40 under 40 Sports Business Journal Award recipient - Leader of a team that won an Emmy - Executive leadership teams for the PGA TOUR and the EA Competitive Gaming (Esports) group - Managed P&L's over $200M in high-growth areas.

Country

United States

City

Ponte Vedra Beach

Industry

Management Consulting

Skill

Growth Strategies, P&L Management, Strategic Planning, Executive Management, Building Business Partnerships, New Business Development, Strategic Consulting, Start-ups Management, CEOs, International Business, Business Planning, Entrepreneurship, Golf, Operations Management, Project Management, Sales, Business, Management Consulting, Video Games, eSports

Experience

Orion Business Advisors

Chief Executive Officer

Orion Business Advisors

LinkedIn
2022-2 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Ponte Vedra Beach

Sports Fractional CxO, Advisory, Consulting and Board Director, with a focus on helping other companies grow. A partial list of key clients over time: - Amino Rewards - Acting President, Active fitness loyalty rewards - SimWin Sports - Advisor, a digital entertainment company creating virtual sports leagues and teams - VideoVerse - Advisor, AI driven content ingestion, tagging, usage and efficient distribution - TBG - Strategic Advisor, a leader in the NIL space - Twenty66.com - a company that helps others find strategic partners, M&A and/or fundraising - HypGames - mobile gaming company - Board member of digital media company Additional partners include: pro sports league rebuilding vision and relaunch strategy (World Arm Wrestling), an athlete fund-raising platform, a team-productivity company (WeThink), a video game video network aggregation, and being a judge and mentor with Stadia Ventures and more.

Electronic Arts (EA)

Head of Commercial and Partnerships, Competitive Gaming (Esports) Group

Electronic Arts (EA)

LinkedIn
2018-12 - 2022-2 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Redwood City, CA

Member of the CGE (Esports) Leadership team. Responsible for growing the global commercial, business and partnership aspects of the Competitive Gaming Entertainment team. Working with teams on media, sponsorships, partnerships, audience growth, strategy, competitive structures and other areas. Special strategy projects on Betting, Fantasy games and NFTs. Full emersion to in learnings from the esports world. Select partnerships formed: - Twitch - Several linear partners, including ESPN, Turner and Fox - Inner Circle Sports - SportFive - PGL (tournament operator) - Endeavor / IMG - Learfield - GLL (tournament operator)

PGA TOUR

EVP International

PGA TOUR

LinkedIn
2012-3 - 2018-10 · 6 yrs 8 mos

As member of PGA TOUR Executive Committee, was part of our leadership team and responsible for growing the PGA TOUR's international business. Worked across multiple teams to develop a new international strategy and rolled it out to accelerate international growth. Select accomplishments from the International teams: - Tripled the business in 5 years. Over $300M combined P&L - Opened 3 international business offices, London, Beijing and Tokyo - Delivered 5 PGA TOUR international tournaments annually, including 3 new ones - Launched 3 new international Tours with over 58 annual events - Created improvements and exceeded plans in media, sponsorship and audience development.

PGA TOUR

SVP Strategic Development, Digital and Entertainment

PGA TOUR

LinkedIn
2000-11 - 2012-3 · 11 yrs 5 mos

Leader for our PGA TOUR Digital and Entertainment business units and worked on TOUR-level Strategic Development. - Included full P&L and cross functional responsibility (e.g. content, infrastructure, sales / revenues, marketing, etc.) of over $60M/yr. and include around 150 team members - Drove substantial growth across all metrics, including >30X fan engagement, 20X profits, 5X revenues - Launched over 10 new products and business lines, e.g. mobile, PGA TOUR on Sirius XM, data and video syndication, ecommerce, international sites, all social media platforms and more - P&L owner for Digital Media, includes all of our non-linear media platforms, including web, mobile, social media, satellite radio, syndication, new products, ecommerce and video gaming. - P&L owner for Entertainment, our full-line video production entity, doing live, long-form, commercial, etc. video programming for TV and all platforms. - Led strategy work across the PGA TOUR to determine how to improve our products and grow the business

Homestead Websites

VP Business Development

Homestead Websites

LinkedIn
1998 - 2000 · 2 yrs

Menlo Park, California

Responsible for all revenues, business development, strategic partnerships, media sales and account management. - Effective in fast-moving, start-up environment - Formed over 150 partnerships - Grew revenues from $0 to $14M in 2 years - Grew team from 2 to 25

Kearney

Principal

Kearney

LinkedIn
1994 - 1998 · 4 yrs

Consulted on various projects from the Strategic phase, to the implementation and results phases. - Helped grow the Technology practice - Rated top of class - Selected to Global Leadership program

Education

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

LinkedIn

Strategy, Marketing, International

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

LinkedIn

Engineering

Paul Johnson's Contact Information

Email

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Phone

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