# Ben Van Roo CEO and Founder Ben is the CEO/Co-Founder of Legion. Ben served as the EVP of National Security at Primer AI, VP of Data Science at Chegg, and was a Researcher at RAND working with the DOD. Ben has spent his career building technology companies serving the Public and the Private sector. ## Ben Van Roo’s Blogs [**You Are More Than a Prompt, and Your Company Needs More Than a LLM**](/content/blog/you-are-more-than-a-prompt-and-your-company-needs-more-than-a-llm/index.html) 4 Minute Read [**Unlocking the Power of Generative AI: Why Enterprises Need a Comprehensive Platform**](/content/blog/unlocking-the-power-of-generative-ai-why-enterprises-need-a-comprehensive-platform/index.html) 3 minute read [**Fueling the Future of Mission-Critical AI: Announcing Legion's $40M Series B**](/content/blog/fueling-the-future-of-mission-critical-ai-announcing-legion-40m-series-b/index.html) 3 minute read [**From Yurts to Legion: The Next Chapter in Mission-Critical AI**](/content/blog/legion-the-next-chapter-in-mission-critical-ai/index.html) 2 minute read [**From GPT to GDP: AI won’t change the world until we do the dirty, unsexy work**](/content/blog/conecting-genai-to-mission-critical-systems/index.html) 4 minute read ## Ben Van Roo In The News [**Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthropic-ai-iran-campaign/) [The Washington Post] [**Anthropic’s Feud With Pentagon Earns It Fans Amid the Blowback**](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropics-feud-with-pentagon-earns-it-fans-amid-the-blowback-f7e2bb83) [The Wall Street Journal] [**Agentic AI and the Pentagon’s Integration Challenge**](https://warontherocks.com/2026/02/agentic-ai-and-the-pentagons-integration-challenge/) [Cogs of War]