Bryon Kroger

Founder & CEO

Bryon Kroger is the Founder and CEO of Rise8, spearheading initiatives to deliver software solutions 25x faster than traditional methods. A former US Air Force targeteer with firsthand experience of the devastating impact inadequate software has on mission success, Bryon co-founded Kessel Run, the DOD’s first software factory, where he served as COO leading acquisitions, development, and operations for the enterprise-scale software lab that defined DOD DevOps. While there, he pioneered the first continuous Authority to Operate (cATO). Frustrated with the lack of industry partners capable of leading defense digital transformation, Bryon founded Rise8 to fill that gap. Today he is the leading expert on cATO and the bureaucracy hacking necessary to continuously deliver valuable software users love.