Bill Johnson, Board of Directors, Site Acquisition Committee

 
Bill’s background is in sales, distribution and project management. Bill worked for seventeen years for Olympic Boat Centers, the world’s largest recreational boat dealership in the Seattle area. He started in sales and became the company’s first Parts Manager, then on to the position of General Parts & Service Manager of seven locations. In his early thirties he was the General Manager of the flagship #1 store managing a ten million dollar a year budget. He then set up and managed the Force Outboard Northwest distributorship in Kent, Washington as the General Manager. He became the Inventory Control Manager for seventeen locations in Washington, California and Minnesota and finally as the General Manager of the Spokane dealership. Bill became a real estate agent for John L Scott in Kent in the late nineties and renewed his license on Lopez Island as a Broker for Lopez Village Properties. He retired from his seasonal job after fourteen seasons from managing the care and display of 300,000 Christmas trees annually at The Home Depots in Southern and Central California for the Oregon based Christmas tree farm: Holiday Tree Farms. Bill worked for Sunset Builders Supply in sales and inventory control for over eight years before going full time in real estate in 2019.
In addition to his experience in the business world, he is a guitarist, composer, music instructor, event organizer, wedding DJ, artist, actor, photographer, gardener and an author of two books. Bill has been a volunteer on Lopez Island since 2010 when he and his wife moved there. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Chamber of Commerce. Bill has been married to Karen since 1994 and is a stepfather to five adults and a grandfather to their five children.