Harris SBSB Team



Mark E. Johannessen, CFP®

Managing Director

mark.johannessen@harris-sbsb.com



Mark Johannessen is one of the founding professionals of Harris SBSB, a service of Harris Private Bank. Specializing in retirement planning and asset management, he advises individuals, businesses and associations on a variety of financial planning issues.

Mr. Johannessen currently serves as volunteer President for the 28,500-member Financial Planning Association (FPA). He was the 2005 recipient of the Financial Planner of the Year Award from the FPA - National Capital Chapter.

From 2003 through 2005 Mark served on the Board of Directors of FPA and has been active in FPA for over ten years. At the local level, he served as chapter president of the FPA-National Capital Chapter and held a variety of other leadership positions. Previously, Mark served on FPA’s Chapter Leadership Resource Council (CLRC), and as facilitator for FPA’s Regional Workshops for Chapter Leaders.

After the September 11, 2001 tragedy, Mark initiated the design and implementation of FPA’s pro-bono financial planning relief effort for victims’ families. In 2002 he was recognized by Financial Advisor magazine as one of the “Future Stars of Financial Planning” and Washingtonian magazine’s Money Matters List of Financial Professionals. He is often quoted in the press on a variety of financial planning issues.

Mark received a BS in Economics and Political Science from the University of Utah in 1985, and has been a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM professional since 1991. Mark was an adjunct professor of financial planning for the Florida Institute of Technology (Alexandria, Virginia campus) from 1999 through 2002, where he taught retirement planning to CFP candidates.

Mark is active in his local community, having served as president and board member of the University of Utah Alumni Chapter of Washington, DC and as president of the Catholic Business Network of Montgomery County (MD).


Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, Certified Financial Planner™ and federally registered CFP (with flame design) in the U.S., which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements.


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