Perry Johnson

About the Author

Perry Johnson is the founder and owner of over 70 companies that

operate worldwide. These companies include Perry Johnson

Registrars, Inc., and Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation, which do

business in 61 countries around the world. Perry Johnson Registrars is

currently one of the largest ISO 9001 Certification Bodies in the United States.

Mr. Johnson is considered a foremost authority in the field of quality

and wrote what is considered the definitive book on ISO 9000: ISO

9000: Meeting the International Standards (McGraw-Hill, 1993), which

is currently in its third edition. He is also the author of Keeping Score:

Strategies and Tactics for Winning the Quality War (Harper Collins,

1989), ISO 14000 Road Map to Registration (McGraw-Hill, 1997), ISO

14000: The Business Manager’s Complete Guide to Environmental

Management (John Wiley & Sons, 1997), and the ISO/QS-9000

Yearbook: 1998 (McGraw-Hill, 1998).

Mr. Johnson holds a degree in mathematics from the University of

Illinois at Champagne-Urbana with a minor in economics and

completed work in the graduate program for psychology at the

University of Detroit.

Now residing in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Mr.

Johnson is married and has three sons. He serves as president for Perry

Johnson International Holdings and a number of his other companies.

Outside of his daily responsibilities with his various businesses, Mr.

Johnson is highly involved in the day-to-day lives of his children and is

an avid golfer and bridge player. He has won not only five National

Bridge Championships, but has participated in the World

Championships six times, with an eighth-place overall finish in the 1998

Championship in Lille, France.