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Safe Harbor Equity Appoints Michelle Russell Johnson as Principal & Head of Business Development and Investor Relations

Michelle Russell Johnson has joined Safe Harbor Equity as Principal and Head of Business Development and Investor Relations. Johnson will sit on the firm’s Investment Committee for the firm, which is preparing to launch a series of new funds. Safe Harbor Equity’s Fund IV is set to launch on June 1st with a $500M raise, half of which is already soft circled. 

“We welcome Michelle as a key member of our leadership team and, given her top-tier experience and track record, we are confident that she will strengthen our presence with investors,” Safe Harbor Founder Rafael Serrano said.

Johnson brings asset management experience in sales, marketing and investor relations. She was previously a Managing Director, Capital Markets, at Waypoint Real Estate Investments. She holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 

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Angela Noote is a native of Northern California and graduated from Chico State with a degree in public relations. After college she moved to the Central Coast and worked first in ad sales then in editorial, eventually spending more than a decade as a print reporter and editor. She detoured into design work at a printer/publisher, and with a partner eventually opened a boutique full-service marketing agency. Moving into corporate communications, she built and managed several successful marketing teams in the hospitality, financial services, and nonprofit industries. Most recently she was an internal comms manager in the tech sector. After a long stint spent in Georgia (Go Dawgs), she moved to Baton Rouge, LA and has written for clients in the financial, luxury imports, higher ed, commercial cleaning, and medical equipment industries. Her son is a media arts major at the University of South Carolina, and her husband owns a comedy theater in Baton Rouge, where you can often find Angi teaching improv classes, leading corporate training events, or doing an occasional stand up set.