Edward A. Johnson

Managing Director, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, DLJ Growth Capital Partners

Edward Johnson is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Asset Management division, based in New York. He has responsibility for DLJ Growth Capital Partners I, a mid-market leveraged buyout fund and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners. He is a member of the management and investment committees for DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and DLJ Growth Capital Partners. Mr. Johnson joined Credit Suisse First Boston in September 1998 from E.M. Warburg Pincus, LLC where he worked for four years as a generalist in the private equity area, and for two years as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. Prior to that, he spent six years at Chevron as a refinery planner. Mr. Johnson holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering with Honors from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar.