Herbert Fisk Johnson III

American businessman

Herbert Fisk Johnson III (born May 19, 1958), known as Fisk, is an American billionaire businessman. He is the fifth generation of his family to lead S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc of Racine, Wisconsin, as chairman and CEO. As of February 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$4.5 billion.2

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Born May 19, 1957.1

Net worth $4.7B (as of 2025, per forbes.com).15 Richest people

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedSamuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management3
  • Date not recordedCornell University College of Engineering3
  • Date not recordedCornell University3

He is the son of the late Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr. (1928–2004) and Imogene Powers Johnson, and the great-great-grandson of company founder Samuel Curtis Johnson. His three siblings and mother each had a net worth of $3 billion as of May 2015.

He received five degrees from Cornell University and Cornell's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, a BA in chemistry and physics in 1979, a Master of Engineering in 1980, an MS in applied physics in 1982, an MBA in marketing and finance in 1984, and a PhD in applied physics in 1986.

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Career

Occupation: inventor, businessperson, chief executive officer.6

He joined the family business in 1987 as a marketing associate and served in a number of roles. He was appointed chairman in 2000, and CEO in 2004.

On behalf of the company, he accepted a 2006 Ron Brown Award, a presidential award for corporate leadership.

Public policy work

He has served as a:

member of President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation

member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development

director on the board of Conservation International

member of the executive board of CI's Center for Environmental Leadership in business

trustee emeritus of Cornell University

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Personal life

  • BornMay 19, 1957, Racine7
  • CitizenshipUnited States8
  • Children19

Johnson was married to Dr. Susan Lochhead, a former emergency room physician, for 13 months. Johnson and Lochhead have a daughter. Their divorce proceeding went for three years. He lives in Racine, Wisconsin.

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Philanthropy

His extended family is the named benefactor of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He has supported Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. On 28 January 2017, he and the SC Johnson company donated $150 million to Cornell to name the SC Johnson College of Business, which comprises the previously endowed Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics, and the School of Hotel Administration.

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