Former CNPA President Bill Johnson to retire

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Bill Johnson, 2017-18 CNPA president, has announced that he will retire later this year as president and CEO of Embarcadero Media, which publishes the Palo Alto Weekly, The Almanac in Menlo Park, the online Mountain View Voice, the Pleasanton Weekly and DanvilleSanRamon.com, PaloAltoOnline reports. He founded Palo Alto Weekly in 1979 at age 26.

Succeeding him as president and CEO will be Adam Dawes, an Embarcadero board member of 10 years.

Johnson said will remain in his role as chairman of Embarcadero Media’s board of directors and president of the Embarcadero Media Foundation.

In 2019, the CNPA Board of Directors honored Johnson for his three decades of service to the board and to CNPA (below).

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