An international team. The two founders of Consort Partners have an unparalled international perspective. Dominic is born and bred in London, while Kathy is a half-Japanese American who speaks decent German. Having lived and worked in the US, UK, Germany, Belgium, and Japan, the partners have built an impressive international network within technology and media markets.
Key Players:
Dominic Johnson
Dominic's record as a business innovator and marketer has been evidenced in a number of companies, from internationally renowned companies like News Corp, to technology darlings like Autonomy and Blinkx. Primarily working in the background to effect change in corporate revenues and profile, he took Autonomy from an obscure 4-person neural-networking startup to a global publicly-traded company generating over $60 million in annualized revenues in three years. His experience in the financial circles include public transactions on the LSE, Nasdaq and AIM, as well as serving as trendscouting and executive advisor to leading VC and hedge funds. Additionally, he has spearheaded several successful M&A projects with an impressive portfolio of US and European companies, both publicly and privately held.
Dominic has a long history in management, operations and marketing in media, technology and advertising companies. He was the youngest founder of multimedia divisions in both News Corp and the UK's leading Channel Four Television, responsible for generating incremental profits by monetizing existing titles and properties. Additionally, he guided companies from obscurity to international headlines, his PR and positioning work has garnered leading-story coverage in TV and print media venues, from the BBC, CBS, WSJ, FT, amongst others.
Kathy Johnson
Kathy's pioneering ventures include: Firefly, where she developed the international channel and distribution strategy before it was acquired by Microsoft; the introduction of online loyalty, where Kathy was pivotal in the creation of international strategies for companies including Bertelsmann, Vivendi-Universal, BT and Dentsu; and most recently, co-founded Blinkx, the world's first video search engine. Her evangelism of disruptive technologies has garnered unprecedented levels of media attention including international newspapers (WSJ, NYT, Guardian, The Times, Die Welt, Reuters, etc.), international TV and radio (BBC, CNN, CNBC, etc.), and business and lifestyle magazines (Fast Company, Red Herring, Real Business, PC Magazine, etc.).
Kathy is also actively involved with nation branding initiatives; including Japan's first inbound tourism campaign, "Yokoso Japan," with Prime Minister Koizumi's administration, "Invest Japan", Japan's first inbound FDI advertising and PR campaign, and "Germany in Japan 2005/2006" with the German government's Foreign Affairs Office.