R. Todd Johnson - Designing Business for Good
Channel: SOCAP Global
Date: 2013-09-06

Lawyer, counselor, advisor and mentor for small and large businesses, Todd works with renewable energy, sustainable growth and energy efficiency companies, and those using the internet and "for-benefit" models to ensure global, long-term, social, environmental and economic well-being.
Todd founded Jones Day's Northern California presence in 2000 by opening its Silicon Valley office, and today heads the Firm's Energy Practice where he leads its renewable energy and sustainability focus. Todd serves or has served as regular outside counsel for public companies and start-ups, and for venture capital funds, private equity funds, and investment bankers.
Todd's social entrepreurship and impact investing leadership dates back to 2003. Over the past decade, he has counseled, advised and represented dozens of organizations seeking to alleviate some of the world's most challenging problems, in some of the world's hardest places, including Ashoka, B Lab, D-REV, Ecotrust, Embrace Innovations, Fair Trade Pictures and their film, Call + Response, their social activism through "Slavery Footprint" and their supply chain transparency, through "Made in a Free World", GlobalGiving, Good Capital, Grameen Trust, Hattery, Inyenyeri, LawGives, Network for Good, Nuru International, Pura Vida Coffee, Roadtrip Nation, San Diego Zoo, Springhill Equity Partners, Trade As One, the founders of Verb (innovators of the Dell Social Innovation Challenge), and Uprising Capital (a new impact investing fund).
He has traveled extensively throughout the developing world, including eight trips to Ethiopia in the past seven years, where he and his family support a number of organizations, including the country's first private university.
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