Brian Johnson is the co-founder and CEO of Gozynta, the company behind Gozynta Mobius (an accounting integration trusted by over 1,000 MSPs) and Tixt (a texting to ticket solution).
Brian is a self-taught computer geek and business owner. He grew up in a small business household (family business is electricians), running a BBS in middle school, to installing Novell Netware networks (from cabling up) in high school. He has been using Linux as his primary OS at home since ‘99, built and hand-tweaked his own spam filtering boxes for businesses for about 10 years, was a one-man IT shop for a manufacturing company, computer programming on Linux, Windows, Mac, PalmOS, and other embedded systems all the way down to assembly. He also learned to operate a 70’s scanning electron microscope.
Prior to founding Gozynta, Brian was part of a small MSP that grew through the 2008 recession. Brian was hired as the 5th employee to do server support, but his responsibilities quickly grew as did the company. Including several years of travel doing software consulting for manufacturing companies, built and led a custom development arm of the business, and finally spent 2 years as CEO and co-owner. His drive for excellence led to Gozynta’s motto, “All software sucks, we’re just trying to make it suck less."