The Insider advantage

Strategy from one firm, execution from another, and what falls in the middle is, unfortunately, your problem.

There’s a better way. GrayMatter’s leaders have run plants, commissioned systems, and answered for both. The advice you get sounds like it came from inside your operation, because it did.

Our Leadership

Paul Galeski Chief Executive Officer

As Chairman & CEO of GrayMatter, Paul oversees all aspects for the company’s operations and strategic business outlook.

Alan Hinchman Chief Revenue Officer

Alan is the Chief Revenue Officer and sets the tone for GrayMatter’s commercial strategy. The GrayMatter Effect – how great people achieve great results together is Alan’s theme song.

Nancy Lux VP, Human Resources

Nancy leads the team's People Operations – supporting the team working at GrayMatter through benefits, Launch Labs, performance reviews and other people-centric initiatives.

Larry Ray

Larry Ray Chief Operations Officer

Larry is the Chief Operations Officer at GrayMatter and leads operations and services. He makes sure big thinking becomes real‑world doing – through strong operations and execution. Larry focuses on building business systems and aligning teams internally and externally for our clients.

Nathan Barker Partner & Chief Operating Officer, GrayMatter Factory Advisors

Nathan is Partner and Chief Operations Officer of GrayMatter's Factory Advisors. He brings more than 20 years of industry and consulting experience, providing program management and operational support to clients.

Kerry McQuone Chief Marketing Officer

Kerry is the Chief Marketing Officer who leads GrayMatter’s internal and external brand strategy, storytelling, communications and business development functions to define the company story and make sure the world knows why GrayMatter is the best.

James Terrell Chief Financial Officer

As the Chief Financial Officer, Jim oversees all budgeting, contracting, auditing, M&A and other financial aspects of GrayMatter’s fast-growing business.

Derek Hawkins Chief of Staff

Derek is the Chief of Staff at GrayMatter. He leads our integrations and has a pulse on answering questions big and small about joining GrayMatter.

Welcome Factory Advisors Practitioners

Alec Lucci Managing Director

Ben Amell Project Manager

Brandon Miller Marketing Manager

Chase Hernandez Advisor

Darby Perkinson Project Manager

Dave Boissonneault Partner and CFO

Dave Chisholm Project Manager

David Reid Project Manager

Drexel Forbes Project Manager

Jill Glinka Director of Recruitment & Talent

Josh Biggart Managing Director

Marianna Cunningham Human Resources, Business Partner

Michael Phelps Senior Advisor

Mike Brewer Managing Director

Nick Howell Director

Noman Husain Managing Director

Patrick Reeder Project Manager

Paul Dunn Managing Director

Paul Heasman Managing Director

Paul Slater VP of Operations

Ryan Sassi Project Manager

Saloni Saraf AI Systems Engineer

Sam Shafer Director

Sarah Frazier Digital Content Learning Specialist

Our purpose

We exist to break industrial operations out of silos and stagnation, and ignite progress from the inside out.

GrayMatter isn’t built on expertise alone. We’re purpose-built on beliefs and values that shape how we think, how we act and how we move industrial organizations forward.

Explore our beliefs and values

Do you have a Thinkers+Doers mindset?

We’re searching for experts with experience building novel solutions to the toughest
problems on the floor. Is that you?