Today we’d like to introduce you to Ben Cahoon.
Hi Ben, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
Ben Cahoon is a serial entrepreneur, operator, and product strategist who has spent his career building, scaling, and exiting technology companies across healthcare, enterprise software, education, automotive performance, real estate, and financial services.
He currently serves as CEO of Techcyte, where he leads the company’s mission to positively impact the health of humans, animals, and the environment by becoming the preferred digital pathology and diagnostics platform across those industries. Under his leadership, Techcyte is transforming the practice of pathology with a unified platform that digitizes laboratory workflows and deploys AI tools to improve the efficiency, accessibility, and accuracy of diagnostic testing.
Ben’s career reflects a consistent pattern: join early, build the foundation, scale the business, and create meaningful exits.
He began at Intel Corporation, where he progressed from tester to technical program manager, business development manager, and product line manager—developing deep experience in product strategy, cross-functional execution, and enterprise-scale operations. Intel spun out there division where he was LANDesk Software’s Director of Product Management, owning product strategy and leading product teams.
As Vice President of LanSchool, Ben was the company’s second employee and helped scale it from startup to more than $3M in revenue and 20 employees.
He went on to serve as President of Stoneware, where he merged two organizations, rebuilt operations across 75 employees, and led the company through its acquisition by Lenovo. That transaction became the foundation of Lenovo’s software division.
Ben has also demonstrated entrepreneurial range outside enterprise software. He served as President of Squires Turbo Systems, scaling it from early-stage startup to multi-million-dollar revenue. He raised $2 million and relocated to Europe to launch AssetLogic in Luxembourg, building the product, marketing, sales, and operational systems from the ground up. He also co-developed Entrada at Moab, a 45-unit real estate project in Utah.
Throughout his career, Ben has built organizations by installing scalable systems—implementing ERP and CRM platforms such as NetSuite, Salesforce, QuickBooks, HubSpot, and Pardot, and applying disciplined product management frameworks including Agile development methologies.
He earned both a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA from Brigham Young University.
Beyond business, Ben is a lifelong leader and mentor. An Eagle Scout and long-time Scout leader, he has served for decades in volunteer and church leadership roles, including two years living in Brazil as a church representative. He is fluent in Portuguese and American Sign Language and enjoys wing foiling, backcountry snowboarding, mountain biking, and canyoneering.
Across every venture, Ben’s leadership is defined by a simple pattern: build strong foundations, align teams around mission, execute with discipline, and create durable value.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Being an entrepreneur is never a smooth road. From partner issues, team member issues, investor issues, competition, product challenges, etc. There is a super fine line between believing in your strategy and keeping at it vs. pursuing a failing strategy.
I’ve found that in most cases, if you focus on the right principles, stay close to your customers and take care of them that sticking with that eventually works out.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
Techcyte is Saas-based digital pathology and digital diagnostics company. Our platform combines workflow with AI to help pathologists, veterinarians, food safety and environmental labs improve the efficiency and accuracy of their labs or clinics.
We’re unique in that we’ve taken a single platform to address multiple markets and we’ve partnered to get commercial scale.
On the veterinary side we partnered with Zoetis and over 8 million AI diagnoses have gone through our system.
On the human side we partnered with ARUP, Mayo Clinic, BD and Copan to develop and sell our digital pathology platform. It covers everything from parasitology, to bacteriology to all of the anatomic pathology sub-specialties.
We have one of the largest mold labs in the country where we analyze mold samples for home inspectors and industrial hygenists using AI.
We’re launching a new food safety solution that detects mold, yeast and bacteria in 15 minutes, vs. the traditional test which takes 2-5 days.
Techcyte is virtual company with 144 people across 5 countries and 28 states.
How do you think about happiness?
I really enjoy aligning all of the levers of a corporate strategy to create commercial success. That results in fulfilling careers for our team members and software that customers absolutely love because it improves their life and gives better results to their patients and customers.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.techcyte.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TechcyteAI
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techcyte
- Twitter: @techcyte
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@techcyteAI
