# Brian Price

> Brian Price is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Kion, the cloud governance and financial management software company formerly known as cloudtamer.io. Raised in Crisfield, Maryland, he studied computer science at Salisbury University and built software at organizations including Northrop Grumman and Booz Allen Hamilton before co-founding Kion. He moved from CEO to CPO in October 2025 to focus on customer discovery, product vision, and innovation.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Kion
- **Organizations:** Kion, Stratus Solutions, Van Dyke Technology Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, Northrop Grumman, Jacobs Engineering, Forbes Technology Council, Fast Company Executive Board
- **Education:** B.S. in Computer Science; minor in Mathematics and Information Systems, Salisbury University
- **Known for:** High-school valedictorian., First person in his extended family to graduate from college., Helped introduce Booz Allen Hamilton’s first internal self-service cloud provisioning platform using AWS and VMware vSphere.

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Graduated from Salisbury University with a B.S. in Computer Science.
- **After college; exact date unverified** — Began his career at Northrop Grumman as a Java developer.
- **Before 2014** — Built software and led software teams at employers including Booz Allen Hamilton and Jacobs Engineering; precise dates not confirmed.
- **2014–2016** — Cyber Solutions Manager at Van Dyke Technology Group.
- **2016–2018** — Vice President at Stratus Solutions.
- **2018** — Co-founded cloudtamer.io; described its Stratus Solutions origins and planned June general availability, later recalling the company’s September start.
- **2021** — Announced a $9.5 million Series A in October; introduced the Kion rebrand on November 1.
- **2023** — Finalist for WashingtonExec’s Cloud Executive of the Year, Private & Public Companies.
- **2025** — Moved from CEO to Chief Product Officer when Kion appointed Brian Wilson CEO on October 7.

## Achievements

- High-school valedictorian.
- First person in his extended family to graduate from college.
- Helped introduce Booz Allen Hamilton’s first internal self-service cloud provisioning platform using AWS and VMware vSphere.
- Co-founded cloudtamer.io, later Kion.
- Led Kion through its 2021 $9.5 million Series A and rebrand.
- 2023 WashingtonExec Pinnacle Awards Cloud Executive of the Year finalist.
- Reported 70+ customers and over $10 million in annual recurring revenue at the October 2025 CEO transition.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Company context: Kion announced FinOps Foundation Premier membership, Tokenomics Foundation founding membership, and FinOps Certified Platform status; these are organizational milestones, not personal awards.
- **2026-06** — Company context during Price’s CPO tenure: Kion announced v3.16 with Anthropic token-spend integration and expanded automation policies.
- **2026-03** — Kion’s author archive dates Price’s article Achieving Public Sector Efficiency Through The Cloud to March 17; the page contains conflicting original-publication metadata.
- **2025-10** — Kion appointed Brian Wilson CEO on October 7, while Price became Chief Product Officer.

## Links

- Website: https://kion.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianeprice

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Last updated: 2026-10-14