Ben works at the intersection of cloud security, infrastructure, risk, and delivery. His background spans VMware environments, private cloud platforms, datacenter operations, product management, and the practical work of translating between engineers, developers, and sponsors.
Cloud security / technology leadership / resilient operations
Cloud security, resilient systems, and leadership that keeps work moving.
Ben Horton is a San Luis Obispo-based technology leader whose work spans cloud security, infrastructure, operational resilience, and team leadership. At EY, he helps complex organizations make clearer decisions, manage risk, and build systems people can trust. His community and theatre work reflect the same discipline: organize the moving parts, support the team, and make the result reliable.
About
Technical leadership with an operator's sense of systems, risk, and people.
Theatre production is part of that story. Lighting, timing, cues, and backstage coordination all reward the same habits: prepare carefully, communicate clearly, and make the whole production work when it matters.
Work
Technology work grounded in cloud, security, execution, and team trust.
Technology Leadership
At EY, Ben works where cloud platforms, security, risk, delivery, and execution meet. He is most effective in environments where stakes are real, ownership matters, and teams need calm, practical leadership.
Practical Security
Ben approaches cybersecurity as an operational discipline: reduce risk, strengthen resilience, and help teams make sound decisions under real conditions, especially around cloud and infrastructure.
Team Builder
Complex organizations need people who can translate between technical detail, product needs, and executive priorities. Ben helps teams align around what matters and move with less friction.
Community
Service and leadership beyond the office.
Firstfruits Farm SLO
Volunteer leadership rooted in food, dignity, and local care.
Ben serves as Board President of Firstfruits Farm SLO, supporting a volunteer-led farm that provides fresh produce to neighbors facing food insecurity across San Luis Obispo County. The work is practical leadership: organize well, show up consistently, and help good people do useful work.
Learn about the organizationStewardship
Work that helps other people do their part well.
Whether the setting is enterprise technology, a volunteer farm, or a theatre booth, Ben tends to take on work that supports the team, clarifies the path, and makes the outcome stronger.
Throughline
Tech, service, and stewardship.
Firstfruits makes the value concrete: strategy has to become service. The same habits that support resilient technology teams also support board work, volunteer coordination, and durable community commitments.
Trajectory
A path through theatre, infrastructure, security, leadership, and service.
Education
Theatre, technology, and travel
Ben's early path moved through theatre, technical production, computer information systems, business, and management, including Spring 2004 at Harlaxton College for British Studies.
Craft
Theatre keeps the backstage instincts sharp
Theatre remains a useful lens: timing, preparation, technical craft, and coordination all matter most when the audience only sees the result.
Now
Technology leadership with real-world stakes
Today that background shows up in cloud security, resilient infrastructure, trusted teams, and community commitments built on practical follow-through.
"Engineer, architect, stakeholder: the work often starts
with helping them understand each other."
A practical summary of how Ben approaches cloud security, infrastructure, and team leadership.
Contact
Connect with Ben.
Reach out about cloud security, technology leadership, community work, or projects that need careful, durable execution.