- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Cognition
- Grafana LabsVice President, Global Partners
- Status
- Current
- Joined Cognition in Aug 2025 when Cognition acquired Windsurf (formerly Codeium); his own post on the deal said: 'Very excited to share Windsurf is joining forces with Cognition! For our partners and customers, this deal brings two world-class teams toward a shared vision, with massive momentum at our backs.'Jul 2025
- Gardner Johnson is VP Global Partnerships at Cognition.Jul 28, 2026
- Gardner Johnson is quoted in a Cognition announcement that LTM has partnered with Cognition to deploy Devin, the AI software engineer, across its global client base and cybersecurity practice serving over 260 clients, including 26 of the Fortune 500 and the top 5 global banks.Jul 28, 2026
- Gardner Johnson is quoted in the announcement of BlueVerse RightLogic, a managed, outcome-based service that clears a customer's vulnerability backlog by pairing Devin's autonomous engineering capacity with LTM's enterprise-grade security practice and delivery expertise.Jul 28, 2026
- Gardner Johnson is VP of Partnerships at Cognition.Jun 5, 2026
- Gardner Johnson stated that the Cognition AI Productivity Guarantee reflects where enterprise AI is headed: measurable outcomes, real productivity, and accountability.Jun 5, 2026
- Gardner Johnson expressed excitement to partner with customers and ecosystem partners to bring this standard to more engineering teams.Jun 5, 2026
- Gardner Johnson said enterprises need a new operating model for engineering, not just productivity gains, in connection with the Synechron-Cognition partnership announced Feb. 19, 2026.Feb 19, 2026
- Gardner Johnson is Global VP of Partnerships at Cognition.Feb 18, 2026
- Gardner Johnson is quoted in an Endava press release announcing a significant expansion of Endava's partnership with Cognition to help enterprises safely scale agentic software delivery.Feb 18, 2026
- Gardner Johnson is Cognition's global VP of partnerships.Feb 18, 2026
- Gardner Johnson said the Synechron Labs team quickly saw that Devin transforms how large systems can be understood, modernized, and evolved.Feb 18, 2026
Responsible for developing and driving Channel VAR business and incremental revenue in North America (NA). Develop and manage BMC channel sales team (partner managers and technical enablement) responsible for Elite and Premier partners. Drove 205% growth in Incremental Revenue in NA in FY14 and 90% growth in total Channel Revenue from FY12-FY14. Member of BMC Software and Bain Capital "Channel Transformation Initiative" (Post Privatization)
Will be in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent this week with a number of folks from the Codeium team. Would love to meet if you're also around! Also, join our evening event with Carahsoft on Wednesday: https://lnkd.in/gd5HfqSp
linkedin.com/posts/gardner-johnson-26283a1_codeium-at-aws-reinvent-activity-7268752321109544960-E6nqOur engineering team is at the cutting edge of AI. Check out our newest product, the Windsurf IDE, for free, at windsurf.ai. I myself, having never written a line of code built 7 applications over the weekend. Complete game changer! Available today for every individual developer (and coming to enterprises in the near future!) https://lnkd.in/ePSWr5Hb #windsurf @codeium
