Matt has spent the last 26 years in the industrial automation space holding various leadership positions in operations, sales and business development. He began his career in on-site repair program management in 1996 for an industrial electronic repair company as an on-site agent at InternationalPaper, spending nearly ten years developing high performance teams serving numerous industries including specialties in Paper and Pulp, Tire and Rubber and Automotive. In 2005, Matt took an opportunity to move to a competing organization in a sales role and never looked back, holding positions of progressive responsibility including key executive roles responsible for leadership in sales and marketing.Ready for a new challenge, Matt joined T.I.E. Industrial, an unrivaled supplier of aftermarket parts for Fanuc CNC and robotics, in 2016. Prior to his arrival, the company had no sales effort in place, which was a large part of the attraction. Matt went on to build a national sales team which helped propelT.I.E. from a lesser-known provider to a nationally recognized leader in the space of repair, aftermarket part sales and robot services supporting manufacturers using metal removal and metal fabrication technologies.