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Steve Johnson
S. Carlisle Johnson


Steve Johnson is a principal and founding member of Thames Street Capital Group. In addition to capital and deal sourcing, origination and due diligence, Steve is the primary representative of TSCG at real estate development sites. Since the company’s inception, Steve has acted as TSCG’s principal in more than 20 transactions, ranging in size from several hundred thousand dollars to more than $40 million and has acted as the principal investor and lead dealmaker in non-real estate ventures. Mr. Johnson has cultivated both personal and business relationships with key principals at major and boutique debt and equity sources, and continues to expand the scope of the business both geographically and within established markets.

Prior to founding Thames Street Capital, Mr. Johnson was an associate at MCG Capital, a mid-market investment firm with approximately $1.4 billion invested. At MCG Mr. Johnson was instrumental in analyzing and underwriting various tranches of private debt, equity, and mezzanine funding in industries ranging from telecommunications to print media. Prior to MCG, Mr. Johnson was a consultant with Kaiser Associates, a global management consulting firm with offices in Washington, San Francisco, Sao Paolo, London, and Cape Town, where he analyzed global and specific markets to produce detailed overviews of industries, competitive forces and potential strategies for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Johnson received BA from Colgate University and an MBA from the University of Maryland, and has also studied at university in Budapest, Hungary and St. Andrews, Scotland. Steve has extensive business experience in Latin America, Europe, and the former Eastern Bloc and currently resides in Washington, DC

S. “Carlisle” Johnson is a principal with Thames Street Capital and uniquely positioned to expand the company’s business into the rapidly growing markets of Central America. Over a lengthy banking and entrepreneurial career Carlisle has been a Director of over 50 corporations, chiefly banks and financial institutions, covering most of the world. These have included companies in Australia, Singapore, Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, USA, France, Malaysia, Italy, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Austria, South Africa, Denmark, Japan, Hong Kong, among others. Carlisle is a former CEO of two investment banks, one now part of Citigroup and another of Japan ’s largest banking organization.

In addition to a distinguished banking career, Carlisle is the former publisher of the Guatemala Post and the host of the radio program Good Morning Guatemala, which has included interviews with many world figures, among them Dick Armey, Jose Maria Aznar, Michael Deaver, John Stossel, and Robert Barro. Carlisle is a 2005 winner of the Golden Circle award in 2005 for outstanding reporting, one of 50+ journalists in 40+ countries to receive the honor.

Carlisle holds a BA with honors from and an MBA from Harvard Business School top tier of class and currently resides in Guatemala.