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Having lived and worked in the Mercer County area since 1993, John has served the banking and business community in the following roles:
Residential Mortgage Loan Officer and Market Manager for Chemical Bank NJ which became PNC Mortgage later to become Washington Mutual mortgage. John left Washington Mutual in 2004 to join Chase Manhatten and retuned to PNC in 2009 and stayed to celebrate 25 years of overall service. With another round of industry mergers, John was recruited to work at Citizens Bank as a lending officer in 2022.
Board memberships and leadership positions at Princeton Child Development Institute, (Chair of the Board), Princeton Mercer Chamber of Commerce (Board member and Chair), and the Princeton Chamber Foundation (President). During his tenure as Chair, John and the Chamber Executive team helped to merge two former competing Chambers together in 2019. During the pandemic, John and the Foundation teamed up with Princeton University to provide relief grants to the Princeton Merchant business community.
John currently resides in Princeton and enjoys golf, hiking and horseback riding at Hunt Farms.
Mike and Gabi Johnson have an extensive multi-media background and are the Creators and Owners of YourTownTube.com (the 1st all-video all-local website) and FitFabAndWellTube.com – now the largest all-local social media broadcasting websites and all-local social video networks in New Jersey. These all-video websites average over 3.4 million hits per month and feature over 22,000 videos of the people, businesses, places, events, charities, economy, education, and culture of the Princeton and Mercer County areas.
In addition to the websites, which include the ‘Independent Businesses’; and ‘Central NJ Real Estate’ pages of the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, Mike and Gabi also created two hugely distributed online social networking/sharing video newsletters: The Princeton Mercer Local Influencers™ and The Princeton Mercer Buy Local Connection™, which is co-presented and promoted by the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Those two ‘VPods’ promote everything Princeton-Mercer and spawned the creation of the two shows on CNJN: Mercer Local Influencers™ and Mercer Buy Local Connection™. The 2 shows are currently Sponsored by the Mercer County Office of Economic Development.
Gabi is Co-Host of two CNJN TV shows, TheGab TV Show and Mercer Buy Local Connection™. She is also Correspondent and Producer/Editor for Mercer Local Influencers™ and Mercer Buy Local Connection™. Gabi serves on the Board of CNJN and as Chair of the CNJN Programming Committee.
Mike is the Executive Producer/Director of both CNJN shows, along with Tom McManimon of StimulusBrand.
Mike and Gabi have also filmed, directed, and produced hundreds of videos for merchants, businesses, and events in our local communities, including over 70 in the Zoom-filmed popular video series during the height of the Pandemic shutdown: ‘The Show Must Go On’.
