Johan has founded and grown six IT, internet, and telecom companies since 1995. He began developing the proprietary software that is now Turnium’s SD-WAN platform in 2009. Johan studied Computer Science at Simon Fraser University and left after two years to become an entrepreneur and continue the IT Consulting work that he had started in high school. In 1999, Johan received the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). In 2009, Johan also started Rocket Networks, an Internet Service Provider business, and sold it to TeliPhone Navigata in 2014.