Meet the Team!
Brandon Johnson, Chief Executive Officer
Ohm Vyas, Chief Operating Officer
Ohm Vyas, Chief Operating Officer
Brandon has followed in his father's footsteps by becoming an engineer, educated at Bradley University in Peoria, IL, and has held positions at both Caterpillar and the Eaton Corporation. As Brandon learned from playing basketball, baseball, and cross country growing up, "a team can only be as strong as its weakest link", which is why Sho
Brandon has followed in his father's footsteps by becoming an engineer, educated at Bradley University in Peoria, IL, and has held positions at both Caterpillar and the Eaton Corporation. As Brandon learned from playing basketball, baseball, and cross country growing up, "a team can only be as strong as its weakest link", which is why ShotHawk has set out to form the best team possible to mitigate the impact of active shootings.
Ohm Vyas, Chief Operating Officer
Ohm Vyas, Chief Operating Officer
Ohm Vyas, Chief Operating Officer
Ohm's role in the company is to oversee all operations and ensure the company is headed in the right direction from a project management perspective. The current departments he oversees include the AI Integration and R&D, Marketing, and Finance. A fun fact about Ohm is that he speaks over 5 different languages! He looks forward to working with the team!
Nate Grove, Chief Design Officer
Ohm Vyas, Chief Operating Officer
Nate Grove, Chief Design Officer
Nate joined the ShotHawk team in late 2022 where he quickly found a place as founding member and Chief Technology Officer. Nate continues to play an integral role in the design, system integration, and manufacturing of ShotHawk products, as well as intellectual capital management. Outside of work, Nate enjoys tinkering in the garage and c
Nate joined the ShotHawk team in late 2022 where he quickly found a place as founding member and Chief Technology Officer. Nate continues to play an integral role in the design, system integration, and manufacturing of ShotHawk products, as well as intellectual capital management. Outside of work, Nate enjoys tinkering in the garage and cruising with a family heirloom, his grandma's '64 Thunderbird, as well as other outdoor hobbies including mountain biking, RC trucks, and 4 wheeling.
Ved Vyas, Chief Technology Officer
Ved Vyas, Chief Technology Officer
Ved Vyas, Chief Technology Officer
Ved Vyas, is a rising computer engineering second-year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been affiliated with ShotHawk since 2022 as the head of computing, meaning he works to create the AI solutions that run this product, and enable the computer hardware backend of the project.
Graci Graves, Chief Marketing Officer
Ved Vyas, Chief Technology Officer
Ved Vyas, Chief Technology Officer
Graci joined the team in the fall of 2023 as a marketing member. At ShotHawk she creates social posts and newsletters, as well as works on customer discovery. In her free time she enjoys spending time at her lake house, being around friends and family, as well as cooking and baking.
Protecting the Future
Our Journey is Just Beginning
Our journey started in the September of 2022, when we first came together as a team to work towards a solution that could mitigate the impact of active shootings. Since becoming a business in February of 2023, we have made it our mission to see that our concept for an active shooter response system becomes a reality. We are readily working towards the development of our system, with in-house prototyping, machine learning program development, and have filled for our provisional patent.
CEO, Brandon Johnson and his family were 7 feet under the largest tornado ever recorded in the month of November in 2013. The devastation, generosity, and unity of people from around the community, the surrounding Central Illinois area, and even the nation following the tragedy inspired what has become ShotHawk's mission today: Reduce the impact left by disasters, starting with one that is man-made and plaguing society, active shootings.
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