Bennett Johnston; Director of Strategic Joint Ventures

Bennett Johnston has ten years of experience as an entrepreneur and business consultant focusing on strategic partnering and financing for early stage companies. He has been an adviser to businesses and environmental programs in North America, Japan, China, South East Asia and Europe. Mr. Johnston was a founder of Skytech Internet Services, Inc., which recently completed a successful strategic partnership between AOL-Japan and the largest direct-marketing company in Japan. Mr. Johnston is also a co-founder and Principal officer at AYE, Inc. a real estate investment and development firm.

From 1992 to 1995 Mr. Johnston was Director of Strategic Business Development for U.S. Electric Car. Mr. Johnston was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. From 1984 to 1991, he worked for the Trust for Public Land, an environmental organization dedicated to the protection of land and natural resources throughout the United States, where he served as National Director of Land Conservation. Mr. Johnston has also worked as a consultant to the Close Up Educational Foundation in Washington D.C. and the State of the World Forum in San Francisco. He has served on the Board of San Francisco Baykeeper and the Friends of the Urban Forest.

Mr. Johnston has a Bachelor of Arts, cum laud. in Political Economics from Duke University.