Ben Johnson Location
- Newport Beach, CA, US
Ben Johnson Work
- 2017 -now Co-Founder @
- 2025 -now Minority Owner - Italian Serie A Football @
- 2025 -now Minority Owner - English Premier League Football @
- 2018 -now Technical Advisor to the US FISA Court @
- 2024 -now Managing Partner - National Security, Product Startups, Strategic Advisory @
- 2023 -now Board Director and Angel Investor - Industrial AI and Computer Vision for Factories @
- 2025 -now Angel Investor - Tactical Analytics (and more) for Football Clubs @
- 2023 -now Angel Investor - Enterprise Data Discovery, Classification, and Protection @
- 2024 -now Angel Investor - AWS and Azure Security Monitoring @
- 2025 -now Angel Investor - Dual-Use Drone and Spatial Analytics @
- 2025 -now Angel Investor - Invest in sports as an asset class @
- 2025 -now Angel Investor - AI-powered VIP Event Platform @
- 2025 -now Angel Investor - Hardware to Compute on Encrypted Data @
- 2025 -now Angel Investor - Governance and Security for AI Agents @
- 2024 -now Advisor - Platform for Countering Disinformation and Misinformation @
- 2025 -now Angel Investor - Software to Compute on Encrypted Data @
- 2023 -now Angel Investor - HealthTech Platform for Behavioral Health Clinics @
- 2023 -now Angel Investor - IT Automation @
- 2023 -now Angel Investor - Identity Automation @
- 2023 -now Angel Investor - Venture Studio: early-stage security, defence and resilience technology @
- 2025 -now Investor - Delicious Asian Fusion Restaurant in Scottsdale, Laguna and Newport @
- 2022 -now Founder and CEO @
- 2016 -now Advisor @
- 2016 -2025 Founder and CEO @
- 2017 -2023 Chief Technology Officer @
- 2016 -2021 Board Director @
- 2017 -2021 Advisor @
- 2011 -2019 Co-Founder @
- 2016 -2017 Lecturer - Entrepreneurship in Technology - Master's Level @
- 2011 -2017 Chief Technology Officer, Chief Evangelist, Chief Security Strategist @
- 2009 -2011 Principal Engineer @
- 2007 -2009 Associate Director | Trading Systems Engineering @
- 2000 -2007 Intrusion Engineer @ US Intelligence Community
Ben Johnson Education
- The Johns Hopkins University
M.S. (Computer Science)
2003-2006 - University of Chicago
B.S. (Computer Science (minor in economics))
Ben Johnson Skills
- Python
- C++
- Reverse Engineering
- Threads
- Computer Forensics
- Concurrency
- Network Programming
- System Administration
- Trading Systems
- Information Operations
- Linux
- Penetration Testing
- C#
- Malware Analysis
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- Windows
- Visual Studio
- C
- Network Security
- Computer Security
- Software Engineering
- Multithreading
- Software Development
- Distributed Systems
- Unix
- Programming
- Messaging Technologies
- Java
- Concurrent Programming
- Security
- Information Security
- Operating Systems
- System Architecture
- Incident Response
- TCP/IP
- Perl
- IM
- Enterprise Software
- Networking
- Information Security Management
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Cloud Computing
- Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)
- Project Management
- Startups
- Plpgsql
- Microsoft Excel
- Customer Service
- Ubuntu
- 64bit
- Internet Protocol Suite Tcp/Ip
- Management
- Carbon Black
- Foreign Keys
- MySQL
- Libpqxx
- Internet Protocol Suite
Ben Johnson Summary
- Ben Johnson, based in Newport Beach, CA, US, is currently a Co-Founder at Obsidian Security. Ben Johnson brings experience from previous roles at Cagliari Calcio, Leeds United, U.S. Department of Justice and WedgePoint Intel. Ben Johnson holds a 2003 - 2006 M.S. in Computer Science @ The Johns Hopkins University. With a robust skill set that includes Python, C++, Reverse Engineering, Threads, Computer Forensics and more. Ben Johnson has 2 emails and 2 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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