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James B. Johnson,
Business & Civic Entrepreneur
 

In May 2005 after 3 years of retirement, the prefect opportunity emerged and James B Johnson became the President and CEO of Tripwire.  Tripwire is the leader in Configuration Auditing and Control software that reduces operational risk and ensures the security and availability of your IT applications which increase uptime, reduce firefighting, enforces compliance, and improves your bottom line.

In his free time, Jim is a business and civic entrepreneur and an angel investor.  He works closely with other High Tech and Business leaders, Legislative leaders and the Oregon University System to educate Oregonians on the long term economic benefits of investing in Oregon's universities.  One of his top priorities is to make Oregon's first Signature Research Center, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnology Institute (ONAMI) a success.  The ONAMI Research Center is a joint collaboration between several Oregon University System campuses – led by Oregon State University (OSU) and University of Oregon (UO) – the private sector, including Hewlett Packard, and the Pacific Northwest National Labs (PNNL). The ONAMI Center will put nanotechnology to work in real microscale devices. This new technology will revolutionize energy, medical and chemical devices by miniaturizing the size of everything from medical pumps in the human body to heat pumps in homes, bringing unprecedented levels of performance to such things HVAC systems and semiconductor interfaces. For example, matchbook-size microreactors might operate a laptop computer for weeks rather than using short-lived batteries; and micro medical devices would manufacture chemicals such as insulin right inside the human body

His civic entrepreneurial interest is involves Social Venture Partners Portland (SVPP) a new non-profit organization where he's a founding partner and board member. Its goal is to develop philanthropy and volunteerism to achieve positive social change in our community. Using the venture capital approach as a model, SVPP is committed to giving time, money and expertise to create partnerships with not-for-profit organizations.  During it's first three years of operation, SVPP has given out almost $500,000.

Jim is an angel investor having invested in over a dozen start-ups and currently sits on the board of EasyStreet: an online service.  

He was a member of the Oregon Growth Account (OGA) board from 2001-2006.  The Oregon Growth Account was created, within the Education Stability Fund, during the 1995 Legislative Session.   The goal of OGA is to make investments in or providing seed capital for emerging growth businesses in key industries in Oregon while making a reasonable return for the State by investing in funds that focus on Oregon opportunities.  He was a member of the Oregon's Engineering and Technology Industry Council (ETIC) from 1996 - 2001 and was the chairman from 1998 to 2001.  Under ETIC's leadership during it's first 6 years, Oregon has increased it's investment in Engineering education from $0 to over $37M and industrial support has increased to over $50M.  Jim also was a member of the Oregon Council on Knowledge and Economic Development (OCKED), and was chair of the technology transfer sub-committee which drove the successful establishment of Oregon's first signature research center which leads the country in the area of Nanoscience and Microtechnology interactions with funding of over $21M.

Jim currently serves on the OSU Foundation's Presidents Campaign, the OSU advisory board, and chairs the OSU Engineer College advisory board.  For his work in the community, he received the OSU Distinguished Citizen Award at the June 2001 Commencement.  He also does Angel flights for Angel Flight West who provides free transportation to medical treatment for people who cannot afford public transportation, or who cannot tolerate it for health reasons.

Before retiring from Intel Corporate (INTC) in 2001, Jim was formerly an Intel Vice President in the Technology and Manufacturing Group, and Oregon Site Manager.  He held a variety of positions in his 27 year career at Intel. Jim was the general manager of Intel's Internet Service Operation.  In 1994, he became the Director of Marketing for Intel's Internet and Communications Group in Hillsboro, Oregon.  Before that, Johnson served as general manager of Intel's PC Enhancement Division, Intel's retail products group, he co-founded in 1983 which grew to over $500M in sales. Prior to that, he was an engineering manager and a design engineer.  For a more detailed version of my Intel career.

Jim earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (Go Bears!) in 1973 and a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1974. He's married with four grown daughters (one of which graduated from Oregon State University), 3 grandkids and lives in Portland, Oregon. He loves skiing, running, Ballroom dancing and is an instrument rated private pilot.

email: jbj@easystreet.com

Website: www.jbj-oregon.com