Presently, James A. Johnson occupies the position of Chief Information Officer for James Hardie Industries Plc. Mr. Johnson is also on the board of Americas' SAP Users' Group and Secretary & Director at The Tech Impact.

In the past he was Chief Information Officer & Vice President of Carpenter Technology Corp., Chief Information Officer & Vice President at Durafiber Technologies (DFT), Inc., Director-Information Technology at Honeywell, Inc., Chief Information Officer & Vice President for Trinseo LLC, Programmer at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and Information Technology Consultant at Renaissance Worldwide, Inc.

He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of Maryland.