Kevin D. Johnson, founder and president of Johnson Media, has over eight years of experience leading his company as a successful marketing and communications company that serves many of the most notable Fortune 100 businesses today.

Before incorporating his company in 2000, he engineered web applications and produced computer software for leading companies. He was a software programmer for IBM and a webmaster for CNN Interactive. Also, he worked for Arthur Andersen Worldwide as a business consultant and lead software developer.

Kevin attended Morehouse College on a full academic scholarship as a NASA scholar studying computer science. He graduated with honors. While in college, he founded an on-line college community that is still popular today. He later launched a spin-off magazine that in its first year was declared one of the best college magazines in the country. Realizing that his passion was producing media, he decided to focus his business on all aspects of media, not just computer technology. Currently, his goal is to grow Johnson Media into an international media conglomerate and marketing company, further enabling him to support altruistic causes dear to his heart.

In his spare time, Kevin enjoys doing community service as a volunteer for the Boys & Girls Club of America and Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America, listening to salsa and jazz, playing piano in his Latin band, reading, golfing, and traveling. Kevin is a member of the Apex Society, the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the One Ninety One Club of Atlanta, and a former board member of the ABL (Atlanta Business League). He is also a member of the 2008 L.E.A.D. Atlanta Class of Leadership Atlanta.

Russell Griffin recently served as Director of eBusiness for a Fortune 500 Insurance company, where he had strategic and day-to-day operations responsibility for all eBusiness initiatives. He has also served with KeyCorp, Wachovia, and MetLife over the span of his career.

Prior to joining those companies, he was chief executive of Griffin MarCom Inc., the strategic marketing and communications firm he started in 2001, and through which he held the working title of Chief Marketing Officer for a number of dotcom and post-dotcom era startups. He also served as VP of Marketing and Corporate Communications for Edaflow Corporation, a B2B startup providing software and service to the apparel industry. Prior to that, served as officer, or director for market leading companies since the early 90's.

Russell received his Bachelor of Arts in Public Communication and Public Relations from State University of New York College at Buffalo. He is a past Board Member of the Electronic Banking Association, and past Adjunct Lecturer and Coach at SUNY Albany. Through his career, he has served as advisor to multiple Atlanta, GA area start-ups and mature companies. He served a 3-year term as Executive Director of MiTE (Minority Technology Entrepreneurs), a non-profit technology think-tank and launch-pad. Russell currently works with the State of Rhode Economic Development Corporation, through involvement with two business leaders' development associations.

He is a 2003 MOBE award winner - for Internet Innovation and Marketing, and has completed Executive coursework in Enterprenuerial Stdies, through Babson College. He is also a graduate of the prestigious Harvard Business School Program for Leadership Development.

Michael Q. Parker began his career as a packaged goods marketer at General Mills in Minneapolis where he worked on well-known brands such as Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn and Yoplait Yogurt. Following his tenure at General Mills, Parker marketed a variety of consumer products ranging from spices to floor care products, before making the transition to mass media.

In 1993, Michael joined Cox Enterprises as director of circulation sales and marketing for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In that role, he focused on growing both single copy sales and enhancing subscriber acquisition and retention using consumer goods marketing principles

When Cox created a separate business unit to capitalize on the growing interactive media area, Michael was tapped as one of the founding directors. At Cox Interactive Media, Michael served as vice president of marketing, and group vice president with P&L responsibility for ten sites including its flagship, AccessAtlanta.com.

Michael was named vice president/Internet Strategy and Solutions for Cox Newspapers in August, 2000 and served in that role until July, 2005. During this time he was responsible for directing the development and implementation of Internet efforts for all Cox newspaper's and related properties.

Michael is a board member of the National Association of Minority Media Executives. He and his wife Gail are the proud parents of two sons, Brandon and Jared.