Benjamin Sehl is an entrepreneur, business executive, and design strategist.

He is a co-founder of Kotn, a company that sells ethically-sourced, direct-to-consumer essentials from Egyptian cotton.

Sehl grew up in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

^[1]He attended Wilfrid Laurier University, graduating in 2010 with a degree in Communication Studies.

He also attended University of Waterloo, studying Fine Arts and Digital Media.

In addition, he went to Humber College for a year to study Graphic Design and WordPress development.

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Sehl's professional background is in product development.

He has worked at BlackBerry and Apple, as well as provide product design foundations for startups as a consultant.

In September 2014, Benjamin Sehl co-founded Kotn, a company that creates and sells essentials ethically sourced from Egyptian cotton.

His focuses entails improving end-to-end customer experience, partaking in roles involving research, designing screens, writing code, providing support, working on our communications strategy, and packaging deliveries.

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In March 2015, Sehl helped launch Ordinary Studios through Kotn to help other small businesses build their brands.

This allowed him to work on graphic design and web projects for a number of local, national, and global brands.

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Sehl, along with his two co-founders Rami Helali and Mackenzie Yeates, were recognized in 'Retail & ECommerce' sublist in Forbes' 30 Under 30 for 2018.

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Sehl is married to one of the co-founders of Kotn, Mackenzie Yeates; the third co-founder, Rami Helali was his best man at the wedding.

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