OUR TEAM

Lorica's founders began their careers leading teams and managing high-risk operations in the U.S. military. We met as business school classmates and are assembling a team that will reshape private security for the benefit of security professionals, employers, and end users.

Jonathan Lee

CO-FOUNDER & CEO

Jonathan commissioned as an aviation officer in the U.S. Army, flying the AH-64D/E Apache helicopter. He was stationed at Wheeler Army Airfield, HI, where he led the first port operations of the unit's newly fielded attack helicopters and eventually published on the subject matter and edited Army Doctrine impacting future logistics ops. After Hawaii, he was selected to re-establish and take command of Alpha Troop 1-17 CAV and led the training, logistics, and administrative requirements to deploy to Afghanistan during the retrograde in 2021, flying 20+ missions as an air mission commander.

He most recently served in a business development role at Sky Harbour Group, experiencing first hand the security needs of business jet owners.

Jonathan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy.

Ben Kallas

CO-FOUNDER & COO

Ben commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps after college and was selected to become a ground intelligence officer. In that capacity, he deployed with the first Marine unit to re-enter Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2017. He developed the task force's intelligence architecture from scratch and developed intelligence-sharing relationships with units across the country.

He then transitioned to Marine reconnaissance and led a new, multidisciplinary intelligence collection team for the Marine Corps' experimental task force for island warfare in the western Pacific.

Ben holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College.