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I’m Mason Hensley. I live in Richmond, Virginia, where I build, build, build...
I’ve loved making things for as long as I can remember, and could be found disassembling toys as soon as I could hold a screwdriver. As a child of the 90's, I remember the numerous mac-clones rocking Mac OS 7 (pre-Steve return) that my family acquired - and our first dialup connection.
I went on to undergrad at Vanderbilt University's school of Engineering where I received a B.E. in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Financial Economics. During my junior year, I was exposed to just the right kind software development that finally clicked with me that software was the future.
After undergrad, I attempted to build a startup with a couple classmates - it failed in spectacular fashion; however, it gave me the confidence to double down on software development. I shortly landed a role at a PE media rollup on a lean & mean entreprenureal team building new product lines to support revenue expansion. IPO'd.
I then joined a startup pre-close of acquisition at a Fortune50, where I ended up focused on frontend engineering architecture & integration efforts for our group. After a few years, I moved on to a seed stage healthcare startup to lead their technology efforts from zero to one and multiple VC funding rounds.
I left the healthcare startup to start my own business based on problems I saw in the Fortune50 company. Ended up shutting it down after about a year and joining a Life Sciences Company in Texas to help them build their first API's and Physician focused mobile app experience. That grew into two successive promotions - first to VP Engineering, then CTO where I led a team of 100, and supported approximately 2000 team members. You can see a cool talk I did at re:invent about one of the problems we solved here.
Now I'm helping various startups scale, and exploring reindustrialization, deep-tech and bio-defense startup opportunities of my own when I can find spare time.