Zomeworks current leadership — Benjamin Rodefer, Mike Elliston, David Nevin (research, fetched 2026-07-19)

Fetched: 2026-07-19 Reliability: mixed. Wikipedia’s ownership claim is itself uncited (the adjacent citation covers only Steve Baer’s death date, not the ownership transfer) — confirmed by direct inspection of the article’s citation structure. Business-directory profiles (LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, RocketReach) could not be fetched directly (403/999 blocks); details rest on search-result snippets.

Benjamin Rodefer (sole owner)

Wikipedia’s “Steve Baer” article states: “Zomeworks Corporation is now solely owned by Benjamin Rodefer.” This sentence is uncited in the article. Via Wikipedia edit history: the ownership paragraph was written by editor “Joel Russ” (December 2025) and most recently revised 2026-07-06 by an editor named “JoseBaer” (edit summary: “fixed confusion over ownership and governance history of Zomeworks”) — plausibly Jose Baer himself, though Wikipedia usernames are unverified.

Biography (rodefer.com, The Openness Project): grew up in Corrales, NM — the same town as the Baer family; father was a UNM professor. Attended Sandoval Elementary and Cibola High School, then Cornell University (Government and Physics). Interned for Senator Jeff Bingaman. Founded two companies, GoBox Software and ModernArts. Elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives, 2008. Served as President, New Mexico Renewable Energy Industries Association. Also a jazz guitarist, with an album titled “Bent to Be.”

No independent New Mexico corporate filing or business directory record naming Rodefer as a Zomeworks officer was located.

Relationship to Jesse Rodefer

Benjamin Rodefer’s own biography page lists Jesse Rodefer by name among musicians he has “performed and recorded with” — confirming a personal/professional acquaintance through the New Mexico music scene. This does not confirm a family relationship, but given the rarity of the Rodefer surname in New Mexico and Benjamin’s Corrales upbringing, a family connection is plausible though unconfirmed. This is the first concrete lead this archive has found on a question flagged as entirely unknown in earlier research passes.

Mike Elliston (Director)

LinkedIn lists him as “Director – Zomeworks Corp.” Prior roles: Elliston Development Inc., Carrizo Solar Corp., Grant Thornton LLP. MBA (Accounting/Finance/Statistics), University of Chicago. A Michael Elliston was a co-owner of Carrizo Solar Corp. when it bought ARCO’s Carrizo Plains PV plant in 1990 (per a 1991 UPI wire story) — consistent with, but not independently proven to be, the same person as the current Zomeworks Director.

Separately, this archive’s 2009 AIA passive solar slideshow credits a “Mike Elliston passive solar house” with drum doors (c. 1980, updated to plastic barrels 1991) — whether this is the same Mike Elliston is not confirmed.

David Nevin (Vice President)

LinkedIn/ZoomInfo list him as “Vice President at Zomeworks Corporation.” No further career or education detail was findable — both profiles blocked direct fetch, and web searches for “David Nevin” plus Albuquerque/solar returned only unrelated same-name people. The thinnest-documented of the three current leadership figures.

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Source: web research compiled 2026-07-19 for missing-concept-page creation.