Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> March 23, 2009
JONATHAN E. JOHNSON III is the President of Overstock.com, and former General
Counsel. He joined Overstock.com in 2002 as the company's General Counsel and
has also served as its Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Legal. Prior
to joining Overstock.com, he was with TenFold Corporation in various positions,
including General Counsel, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Before that, Mr. Johnson practiced law in the Los Angeles offices of the New
York-based law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and the San Francisco-
based law firm of Graham & James. His practice focused on mergers and
acquisitions, securities offerings, international transactions and general
corporate work. He was a judicial clerk at the Utah Court of Appeals and the
Utah Supreme Court for Justice Leonard H. Russon. Mr. Johnson received a
Bachelor's degree in Japanese from Brigham Young University, studied for a year
at Osaka University of Foreign Studies in Japan, and received his Law degree
from the J. Reuben Clark Jr. Law School at Brigham Young University. Profile
us a sense of what's happening in 2009.
Mr. Johnson: Overstock.com is an online retailer. We started out as a
