Toys “R” Us Jeremy Johnston, Saudi CEO

He has gained an immense knowledge of the Middle East retail business, holding executive positions across Gulf states and near fluent in Arabic. Jeremy Johnston has a lean athletic ‘Power House’ build more akin to a manikin. He is known for getting what he wants and taking no prisoners. That’s his management style and he is proud of it! Not adverse to wearing the traditional Arab jubba robe dishdash on dress-down Thursdays. He cut’s a rather eccentric nubile figure wafting through the office, to the amusement of his expat colleges and somewhat bewilderment with Arab staff. Others call him ‘ JJ Cool’, (reference to the American rapper, actor, author and entrepreneur from Queens, New York! Jeremy is deeply interested in Arab history and culture, some may say he epitomizes the dashing charismatic figure of a latter-day Laurence of Arabia! That sums up our British Knight in the Middle East; ‘With over 20 years in the Middle East Jeremy Johnston is a retail entrepre...