About Mason Hensley
Mason Hensley is the founder and chief executive officer of Gwaihir Robotics in Richmond, Virginia, and a director of the company. Gwaihir is building stators, rotor castings and motor-making machinery for U.S. drone makers, robotics actuator companies and defense primes.
He is a former vice president of engineering and chief technology officer at Caris Life Sciences (Nasdaq: CAI). He contributed to the S-1 ahead of the company's IPO and to the FDA submission for MI CancerSeq. MI CancerSeq has since been approved.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Mason Hensley in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Gwaihir Robotics, Corp. Current
Founder and director
2026 – Present · Richmond, VA
A Richmond, Virginia company building U.S.-made brushless motor components, plus the machinery to make motors, for drone, robotics and defense buyers.
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Caris Life Sciences
VP Engineering and CTO