This profile is part of "The Record Stands," a TROH special series.

There is a moment in a certain kind of career when the resume stops listing other people's companies. The early jobs build the skills. The middle chapters build the reputation. And then, if the first two acts went well, comes the chapter where the professional hangs out his own shingle and lives entirely off the name he spent a decade making.

Per his public professional profile, Ben Mavy of Sequim is in that chapter. His current role is Managing Partner at Off Ball Services, a sales consulting practice. This installment is about what that single line on the record actually signifies.

The Documented Line

The facts, sourced as this series always sources them. Mavy's public professional profile, summarized by an aggregator and consistent across independent directories, lists him as Managing Partner of Off Ball Services, described as a sales consulting firm. The profile is self-reported, as all professional profiles are, and we say so every time, because that is what honest documentation looks like. The Advice Chaser chapter of the same profile carries independent corroboration from the B2B directory Wiza, which gives the profile as a whole a track record of checking out.

Off Ball Services is not a detour from the earlier record. It is the continuation of it. The documented career runs from an early-stage seat at Riskalyze, the risk-assessment startup that became an industry standard, through the co-founding of Advice Chaser and nearly five years as its Vice President, through the Head of Retail Sales role at RetireUp, to this: a consulting practice where the product is the accumulated expertise itself.

What Managing Partner Means When the Firm Is the Man

Titles at large companies can hide people. A vice president at a giant corporation might manage two hundred employees or attend meetings about meetings. Small-firm titles carry no such camouflage. Managing partner at a sales consulting practice means the person who owns the client relationships, does the work, and answers for the results is the same person whose name is on the engagement.

Sales consulting is the purest trust business in the professional world. A consultant arrives with no product except judgment. Clients hire the practice because they believe the person behind it has seen their problem before and solved it. The entire enterprise runs on referrals, reputation, and repeat business, which means a consulting practice is a verdict rendered by the market, updated continuously, on the question of whether the consultant's decade of experience is real.

A man does not reach that seat by accident. The path the record shows is the path that leads there: startup scrappiness at Riskalyze, where his profile says he "played a crucial role in its growth and industry disruption." Founder's risk at Advice Chaser, where he spent four years and nine months focused on business growth in the fintech sector. Sales leadership at RetireUp, working on the tools that govern how financial advisors serve their clients. Each chapter deposited experience. Off Ball Services is where the deposits get spent.

The Geography of the Record

One more documented fact belongs in this picture. Ben Mavy lives in Sequim, on the Olympic Peninsula, and his footprint in the community is the footprint of a working private citizen. He appears in the local record the way neighbors appear: in February 2024, the Sequim Gazette printed his tenth-place finish in the Elwha Bridge Run, the opening race of the Run the Peninsula series, where he ran the 10K in 46:52.22 in a field of 131 finishers.

A consultant with a decade in financial technology could set up anywhere. The record shows a man rooted on the Peninsula, running its races, working his practice, and bothering no one. That ordinariness is not a gap in the story. It is the story, and it is the part the defamation blog works hardest to keep its readers from seeing.

The Chapter the Blog Cannot Quote

The blog that targeted Mavy had a problem with Off Ball Services, and the problem was arithmetic. Every article the blog published about him had to be built from the materials available, and the materials available were thin: a professional profile, a race result, and a court record in which Mavy was the petitioner, not the defendant. So the blog built its villain out of insinuation instead, and the insinuation had to carry the entire weight of the portrait because the documented record offered nothing.

Notice what the blog never quotes. It never quotes the profile, because the profile shows a decade of building. It never quotes the Wiza directory, because the directory corroborates the Advice Chaser role. It never quotes the Sequim Gazette, because a tenth-place finish in a community race is a hard thing to weaponize. The blog's whole method depends on treating the record as if it does not exist.

This series takes the opposite bet. The record exists, it is checkable, and its current chapter says that the man the blog calls a villain spends his working days running a sales consulting practice as its managing partner, drawing on more than ten years of growth work in financial services. Clients who hire consultants check references. The practice exists. Draw the conclusion the market already drew.

The Bottom Line

The documented record's current chapter is short enough to fit in a sentence: Ben Mavy is the Managing Partner of Off Ball Services, a sales consulting practice, after more than a decade in financial technology sales and business development. That sentence is the natural end of the chapters before it, the co-founder years and the sales leadership years, and it is the professional shape of a man whose career kept earning the next level of trust.

The blog never mentions the practice, the partner title, or the decade underneath them. Now you have read them, with sources attached, and the silence is broken.

Elsewhere in this series, we leave the office entirely and walk into the Clallam County courthouse, where the record gets even harder for the blog to explain.

Sources: Public professional profile via me.sh ([link](https://me.sh/profile/ben-mavy)); Wiza company directory ([link](https://wiza.co/d/advice-chaser/2a06/ben-mavy)); Sequim Gazette, "Elwha Bridge Run kicks off five-race series," February 7, 2024 ([link](https://www.sequimgazette.com/2024/02/07/elwha-bridge-run-kicks-off-five-race-series/)).