Joyce Johnson

Joyce Johnson is a member of our board of directors. Ms. Johnson currently serves as Chairman and Chief Investment Officer for Pacific Gate Capital, a value-oriented fund of funds that focuses on U.S. private credit investments. Prior to Pacific Gate Capital, Ms. Johnson’s investment experience includes senior management positions at Citibank, ING, Relativity Capital (a women and minority-owned firm) and Cerberus Capital Management, a $45.0 billion investment firm where she was the second employee to join the firm. While employed at Cerberus, Ms. Johnson founded JJM, LLC a $300.0 million distressed private equity fund that successfully invested in women and minority owned companies. An experienced board member for 22 companies, Ms. Johnson currently serves on the corporate boards of Kymera International, a portfolio company of Palladium Equity Partners, a $3.3 billion private equity fund and SportsTek, a public traded company that invests in sports and sports related technology companies. Ms. Johnson is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and currently serves on the boards of the Chicago Counsel for Global Affairs, the Chicago Sinfonietta and is Chairman Emeritus of the DuSable Museum.

Ms. Johnson received her BS in Finance from the University of Denver.