Chad Johnson

Chad Johnson is a Managing Partner at Cherry Tree & Associates, where he leads their education practice and spends a considerable amount of time working with high growth technology companies on M&A engagements. Chad has been an investment banker since 2006, and prior to that led the language technology company Ultralingua, and did corporate development and strategy at PLATO Learning (now Edmentum). Chad's mother was an elementary school teacher, and in his personal life he has continued to invest in education companies including Early Learning Labs where he served on the Board of Directors prior to its sale to Renaissance Learning in 2019.