Rob Johnson
Department of Entrepreneurship
University of Navarra
Spain
Biography
Rob Johnson is visiting professor in the Entrepreneurship Department. Rob is a successful entrepreneur and venture capital investor. From 1990 he was on the faculty of London Business School for ten years, where he designed and taught a course on entrepreneurial finance and founded the European Business Plan of the Year Competition. He also founded the International Search Fund Center at IESE. He has served as a director, and in several cases as chairman, of many private companies and has been actively involved in those companies from their early financings through to successful trade sales and IPOs. Rob serves on the advisory board of Palamon Capital Partners in London, the investment committee of the Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar Development Fund, and the boards of several search fund companies. His areas of specialization include financing new ventures, the private equity industry, and search funds.
Research Interest
Search funds
Publications
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Johnson RL, Tratnyek PG, Johnson RO. Persulfate persistence under thermal activation conditions. Environmental science & technology. 2008 Nov 14;42(24):9350-6.
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McArdle P, Wiegersma A, Gilvarry E, Kolte B, McCarthy S, Fitzgerald M, Brinkley A, Blom M, Stoeckel I, Pierolini A, Michels I. European adolescent substance use: the roles of family structure, function and gender. Addiction. 2002 Mar 1;97(3):329-36.
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Cichanowski HR, Schmitt JS, Johnson RJ, Niemuth PE. Hip strength in collegiate female athletes with patellofemoral pain. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 2007 Aug 1;39(8):1227-32.
