Jarrod Benson
Jarrod Benson is the Chief Information Officer of Koch Industries and also serves as Global CISO for the company. He joined Koch approximately 20 years ago without a college degree, starting with parking lot striping work before demonstrating data science skills that led him into the organization. He is best known for building Koch's cybersecurity capabilities from the ground up and subsequently rising to the CIO role.
“Our CIO today, his name's Jared Benson, his first interaction with Coke was based striping lines in our parking lot. So no college degree whatsoever... he saw the cybersecurity risk in that wave coming, built a whole capability to protect us from cyber attacks. And then now he's CIO of the company.”
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