Experience

Black Capital

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Partner

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  Serves as Managing Partner of the Black Capital Fund, an early stage venture capital fund focused on investing in black and underrepresented founders. Serves as Managing Partner of the Black Capital Fund, an early stage venture capital fund focused on investing in black and underrepresented founders.



City of Sacramento

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mayor

  • Dec 2008 - Dec 2016

  Kevin Johnson was elected as two-term Mayor of the capital of California, a city with 479,686 residents, an annual budget of $951.6M and 4,500 employees. As the first African American Mayor elected, he worked to successfully prevent the relocation of the city’s only professional sports franchise (the Sacramento Kings) leading to an agreement between a new ownership group and the City to value the team at $535M and build a new downtown sports and entertainment complex for a total deal of nearly $1B. The new arena and surrounding development will create 4,100 permanent jobs and create $11.5B in regional economic activity over the next 35 years with no new taxes and no net impact to the City’s general fund. Johnson also led the city to secure hundreds of millions in federal grants, cut more than $234M from the city’s structural budget imbalance while more than doubling the budget reserve, reduce homelessness by 16% while assisting 2,500 households into permanent housing and launch the “Greenwise Sacramento” initiative in 2010, which resulted in the city having the state’s second highest clean tech job growth, the nation’s third highest concentration of green jobs and the naming of Sacramento as one of the first five cities in the President’s Better Buildings Challenge. While serving as Mayor, Kevin Johnson led several national organizations representing mayors nationally. As President of the US Conference of Mayors Johnson was responsible for setting a national vision for member Mayors, a non-partisan organization of cities whose Mayors represent approximately 50% of the nation’s population. As Founding President of the African American Mayors Association, he led a comprehensive national effort to create a new nonprofit organization representing African American Mayors, established a “Business Council” to further private sector partnerships, led membership recruitment efforts, and presided over the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the organization.



St. HOPE

• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Jul 1989 - Feb 2008

  In 1989, Kevin Johnson founded St. HOPE, a community development corporation focused on public education, economic development, civic leadership and the arts in Oak Park, one of the most troubled communities in Sacramento. Through his leadership, Sacramento High School became one of the highest performing high schools in California that serves a population of more than 50% African American students and PS7 K-8 School was named California Charter School of the Year in 2012. St. HOPE also catalyzed the development of 210 new housing units and 220 permanent jobs in the Oak Park community.



National Basketball Association (NBA)

• United States
• Spectator Sports
• 700 & Above Employee

• Phoenix Suns All-Star

  • Jun 1987 - May 2000

  Drafted as the 7th overall pick in the 1987 NBA draft, Kevin Johnson played with the Cleveland Cavaliers until traded mid-season rookie year to the Phoenix Suns. There, he played in the position of point guard for the team for 12 years garnering significant awards and honors including being named an NBA All-Star for three years, becoming Phoenix Suns’ all-time leader in assists (6,518), free-throws made (3,851) and free-throws attempted (4,579) and receiving a gold medal in the 1994 World Championship games with the “Dream Team II”.