Dr. Philip Johnston is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Enable-USA. Prior to starting Enable-USA Dr. Johnston was the President and CEO of Alternative Fuels International, Inc. headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to founding AFI, Dr. Johnston worked for 33 years with CARE, 15 as its President and CEO. Upon retiring in December 1996, the Board of Directors elected Dr. Johnston President Emeritus of CARE.

In 1963, Dr. Johnston's career with CARE began in Greece, where he spent two years helping develop a nationwide school nutrition program. In Madras, India he again supervised a school feeding program in which USAID food commodities were provided to 1.6 million primary school students in over 24,000 schools. Promoted in 1970, he was transferred to Sierra Leone as Country Director. During his five year tenure in the West African country he developed an extensive farm-to-market road project that won financial support from the World Bank, the African Development Bank and USAID. His next assignment was in New Delhi, India where he served for two years as the Director of Development Programs.

In 1976 Dr. Johnston was selected to establish and manage CARE's first European fundraising office, which was responsible for soliciting funds for development and relief programs from individuals and governments. This work contributed to the establishment of CARE International, a federation of CARE fundraising and planning offices in eleven countries, Dr. Johnston served as its first Executive Director. In 1980, Dr. Johnston was elected as Executive Director of CARE USA and transferred to New York. In 1989 he was elected by the Board of Directors to be CARE's President.

From October 1992 through March 1993, Dr. Johnston served as Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance for the United Nations in Somalia (UNOSOM) at the request on the UN Secretary General. Stationed in Mogadishu, he directed the integration of all humanitarian organizations with the military in the wake of civil war and famine. Dr. Johnston was received at the White House by President Bush and thanked for his accomplishments.

Upon retirement in December of 1996, Dr. Johnston established Alternative Fuels International, Inc. (AFI) to continue his interest in helping people in lesser developed countries. Dr. Johnston feels that the best assistance is the type that helps people empower themselves. The work that AFI was doing in Colombia led to the establishment of Enable-USA, a not-for-profit organization that works with former child soldiers.

Enable-USA works with three Colombian organizations that are involved with the rehabilitation of former child soldiers. In addition to helping the former child soldiers, the group, know as the Support Group for the Re-insertion Program, trains and employs former soldiers and policemen who have stepped on land mines and lost one or both legs. The veterans and former child soldiers work in the rehabilitation program producing quilled greetings cards and wall hangings, which Enable-USA markets in the USA.

The marketing involves providing the quilled materials to high schools in the Jobs for America's Graduates Program (JAG) that operates in 27 states and in more than 1,000 high schools. The JAG program's primary focus is to help students remain in school until they graduate. Enable-USA provides the students with quilled products they can sell and through their earnings they can relieve the pressure for money that many feel and some acquiesce to and leave school to try and earn money.

A native of Wellesley, Massachusetts, Dr. Johnston earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Northeastern University of Boston. He later earned his Ph. D. from the University of Madras, India and has received an Honorary Ph. D. from Northeastern University. Dr. Johnston served as a Trustee of Northeastern University for 15 years.