Benjamin Callis
Founder at KenshoCollective
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Callis is a founder and impact venture leader with 11 years of experience building mission-driven companies and studios from Salt Lake City. He leads Kenshō Collective and previously co-founded Ivy Stone Capital and ivy house, combining capital, co-creation, and long-horizon stewardship to build ventures that prioritize measurable, lasting impact alongside returns. Trained in design strategy and human-centered design at Stanford and MIT and schooled in executive leadership at Oxford Saïd, he blends product, strategy, and operational rigor to scale early ventures. Early career roles in product strategy and developer education (Devmountain) give him hands-on fluency in front-end development and team enablement, evidenced by contributions to a popular HTML/CSS practice repo. He is notable for reframing impact questions from "does this do good?" to "what does this set in motion?" and for prioritizing responsibility for unseen consequences. His background reflects a rare mix of design-driven product craft, venture-building experience, and educator mindset.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Executive Leadership, Postgraduate Degree, Executive Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordHuman Centered Design Certificate, Human Centered Design, Human Centered Design Certificate, Human Centered Design at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBusiness Management , Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Business Management , Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services at MIT Sloan School of ManagementSoftware Engineer, Web and app development, Software Engineer, Web and app development at DevmountainPostgraduate Degree, Design Strategy, Postgraduate Degree, Design Strategy at Stanford University
Chinese
Github Skills (5)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
website-design9
site-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DevMountain/HTML-CSS-Practice-Problems
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 11 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily worked on front-end development tasks, focusing on building the user interface for a web-based practice project. They implemented HTML and CSS to structure and style the UI, creating different levels of challenges and solutions. The user made several commits, which included adding HTML structure, CSS styling, and arranging elements. These commits demonstrate a focus on creating a responsive and visually appealing user interface.
bencallis1/MeanStack-CRM
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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