Jeff Johnston

Jeff Johnston is the Executive Vice President, Group Head – Asset-Backed Finance for EverBank. Prior to joining the bank, Mr. Johnston was a Managing Director and the Head of Asset Management within Wells Fargo’s Corporate & Investment Banking group, with oversight of a nearly $100 billion portfolio of bank commitments.

Before founding the Subscription Finance business at Wells Fargo in 2010, Mr. Johnston was responsible for the portfolio and workout of over $10 billion of legacy structured products for the bank, including cash and synthetic ABS and CRE CDO’s, total return swaps and RMBS positions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Johnston worked at Bank of America in their Global Structured Products group working on securitizations and financings for a variety of different asset classes.

Mr. Johnston is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board for the Fund Finance Association, a global industry organization for constituents in the fund finance space. He is considered an original thought leader of fund finance and a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Mr. Johnston is a CFA charter holder and received a BA in Physics from the University of South Florida.