Graeme Johnson

Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute

Class of 1988

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Graeme Johnson - Class of 1988 - Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute

First Name	Graeme
Last Name	Johnson
Graduation Year	Class of 1988
Gender	Male
Current Location	Montreal, Quebec
Hometown	Scarborough, Ontario
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	Graeme Johnson, CFA, is active internationally in investments and investment development. A “Connector” across continents and cultures with a global network and varied skills, Graeme leads business, sells complicated ideas, conducts due diligence and negotiates across language and culture. He is able to take on unique challenges with perspective and courage. Graeme is President of Granite & Pine Investments, a private investment company. Graeme is a member of the Board of Directors of the Quebec City Conference as well as Chairman of its Family Offices Forum. A citizen of Canada and the U.K., Graeme began his career at age 22 by moving to Germany after the fall of the Berlin wall where he was able to join KPMG and became a junior auditor, auditing west and east German companies. Subsequently, at 26 years of age Graeme ran the treasury operations for Argentina’s third-largest export group, a large Lebanese-Argentine family-owned agribusiness and agricultural trading house. Subsequently, Graeme spent more than ten years in financial services firms from the mid-90s through 2008. At 32 years of age he was Managing Director, Head of Europe, in the Private Equity Funds Group at Deutsche Bank Group, in London. While at Deutsche Bank, in addition to serving on the Global Private Equity Investment Committee for the bank, Graeme was responsible for private equity investing and fundraising in Europe and the Middle East. Prior to being recruited to Deutsche, Graeme worked in a similar capacity for other private equity fund investment houses within Europe, including for several years as a member of the Management Committee at LGT Capital Partners, belonging to the family office for the Princely Family of Lichtenstein. Graeme has closed on over $2bn of funding commitments from institutional and high net worth investors and participated in a similar amount of fund, direct and co-investments in companies. He has served on the Advisory Committees of numerous funds around the world, including with the Jordan Fund (dedicated to making buyout investments in the Levant) and with the Advent and Hicks Muse (together with former Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney) funds. Acting as a principal investor, Graeme has also been CEO of a publicly-listed oil company, trading on the senior exchange in Canada, with oil and gas deposits under development in Kazakhstan. Graeme is active in environmentally progressive causes and is a member of the Harvard Business School Clubs of Montreal, Toronto and London, England, as well as the CFA Institute. Graeme is also a former corporate-sponsored windsurfer and carded Canadian amateur athlete with government support. He won the Freestyle Exhibition at the Canadian Funboard (Windsurfing) Championship in 1988. Graeme earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School; a BA, Scholars Electives, from the University of Western Ontario; and holds the CFA designation. He has worked and lived on five continents and has business fluency in French, English, German and Spanish. He speaks conversational Russian and is a member of the Travelers’ Century Club (for travel to 100+ countries). He is husband to his Rus...(read more)