With a grandfather that played a pivotal role in Motorola's engineering force, and a Father that specialized in network administration, Ben comes from a long line of tech industry veterans. Growing up in that environment and then working in Technical Theater and large scale manufacturing. Since moving to DC to take over the Twitch Meetup group, Ben now works full time with Hashtag Studios, blazing a trail in the wild west of esports with a specialization in live media streaming. Ben oversees all esports and streaming product development and management at Hashtag Arena as well as their offsite activations.