Charles ‘Wick’ Johnson is the retired President of Kennebec Technologies in Augusta. After graduating from Lafayette College in 1970 he moved to Maine, taught 6th grade for 5 years. Charles also ran a construction company he founded for another 5 years. In 1982 he joined Kennebec Technologies and was the owner from 1984 until 2016, when the company was sold to the employees through the creation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
Charles Wick has been involved in both local and statewide activities. He is a long-term member of the Augusta Board of Trade and chaired the Lithgow Library Capital Campaign. He was a long-serving member of both the University of Maine System Board of Trustees and the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and was chair of each of those Boards. He has served under five Governors in initiatives ranging from Governor King’s Lap Top Task Force to the 10 Year Strategic Plan Committee and the Governor’s Covid Recovery Committee under Governor Mills.
Wick has received much recognition for his work. In 2002 he was named the Maine SBA Small Business Person of the Year and in 2023 he was awarded the Peter G. Thompson Lifetime Achievement Award by the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce. Charles ‘Wick’ Johnson is currently Chair of the Augusta Homelessness Task Force, a member of the Thomas College Board of Trustees and an active member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church in Augusta.
