Ben Mayberry has been involved in the technology industry in Houston for 50 years. For the past 25 years, Ben has focused on assisting smaller companies through his company Winston Sage Partners, and also making strategic investments. Winston Sage has assisted dozens of companies with M&A work, part time executive positions, and general consulting. In addition to investments in startups, they also acquired a sod farm in 2004 and grew it over a ten year period, and helped launch Winston Sage Custom Homes.

Co-owner/national distribution partner, Surgical Health Solutions /SurgiHeal PRO (sources/markets medical technologies to improve surgical outcomes and aid post-surgical wound recovery) Board of Advisory Member, Direct Biologics LLC (medical therapeutics) Board of Advisory Member, KindHealth (connects existing analytics platforms, dashboards, data warehouses) Board of Advisory Member, Monday Motorbikes (online electric bike retailer)

BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering (Computer Science Specialization), Rice University (a lifetime ago!) Developed computer systems to manage weapons systems at General Dynamics (1970’s) Led a team that developed ride control systems at Walt Disney Entertainment (1978-1980) Founded a company that developed custom ICs for disk and tape controllers (1980’s) Developed disk drive electronics and software for Quantum, Micropolis and Maxtor (1980’s)

Experienced engineering leader. 20+ years building and scaling backend infrastructure, data platforms and applications, and cross functional teams. 11 USPTO patents. A New Social / Bridgy Fed, 2017-present CTO bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse (eg Mastodon), Bluesky, the web, and more. As of April 2025, over 100k users. NCX, 2021 – 2024 Head of Data Led a team of machine learning engineers and data scientists to build a carbon exchange marketplace based on a detailed forest inventory of the entire continental US.