Anthony Johnson is a communications and media consultant with over twenty-five years of creative and management experience in television, film and print media. He has successfully created media campaigns and programs for ABC-News, The World Bank, Merck, Greenpeace, IBM, Motorola, Abbott Laboratories and other Fortune 500 companies.
Mr. Johnson is formerly the General Manager of Henninger Media, one of the largest hi-end post-production facilities in the country. Here he was responsible for over eighty employees and annual sales of $14 million dollars. Presently, he is CEO of Anthony N. Johnson and Associates and currently launching their first feature film, “Initiation”, based upon the award-winning autobiography “Of Water and the Spirit”, by Malidoma Some.
Mr. Johnson has held media positions including Director Production and Operations for Black Entertainment Television, post-production Project Manager on “Tiananmen Square”, “Revolution In A Box” and three other nationally televised ABC-NEWS/ Ted Koppel Specials, Executive Producer Computer Animation for Optimus, where the Levis 501 Jeans and Bud-Lite, ”Give-Me-A-Lite” spots were produced; Executive Producer National Media Campaign for the National Fair Housing Alliance; print and radio ads featuring Ed Asner, Rita Moreno and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
He has been awarded The Silver Medal from The New York International Television and Film Festival and is a former Vice president of the International Teleproduction Society.
Mr. Johnson holds a BA in Radio-TV-Film from Northern Illinois University and a MA from Governors State University, Park Forest, Illinois and is a former United States Army Captain.