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Tom Wagner, Ph.D. - CEO

Tom Wagner, Ph.D.

CEO
Steve Johnson - President & COO

Steve Johnson

President & COO
Matt Mason, Ph.D. - Chief Scientist

Matt Mason, Ph.D.

Chief Scientist
Mark Fidler - Chief Financial Officer

Mark Fidler

Chief Financial Officer
Peter Van Alstine - SVP & General Manager, Retail

Peter Van Alstine

SVP & General Manager, Vertical Markets
Jessica Moran - SVP & General Manager, 3PL and Package Handling and Logistics

Jessica Moran

SVP & General Manager, Strategic Account Group
Pete Allen - VP and General Manager, Grocery and Convenience

Pete Allen

VP and General Manager, Grocery and Convenience
Craig Hattabaugh - VP and General Manager, SGC

Craig Hattabaugh

VP and General Manager, SGC
Christian Ehrbar - VP & General Counsel

Christian Ehrbar

VP & General Counsel
Chris Phaneuf - VP of Talent

Chris Phaneuf

VP of Talent
Kevin Ahearn - VP Strategy Packages and Logistics

Kevin Ahearn

VP Strategy Packages and Logistics
Gertjan Dekkers - Managing Director EMEA

Gertjan Dekkers

Managing Director EMEA
Tom Wagner, Ph.D. - CEO
Tom Wagner, Ph.D. - CEO

Tom Wagner, Ph.D.

CEO

Tom Wagner is the CEO at Berkshire Grey. Tom believes in delivering value to customers, integrity, hard work, and service to our customers, our team, and our investors. Tom also believes in pulling forward new technology to create customer value. Under his direction, these are the guiding principles for the company. Tom’s background includes career management of hundreds of millions in development dollars and a portfolio of business functions and roles. Between Tom’s efforts and those of the BG team, their work has resulted in billions in topline revenue associated with products that deliver value to customers. Previously, Tom had the privilege of serving as the Chief Technology Officer of iRobot. iRobot is a publicly traded company with a multi-billion dollar market capitalization and is recognized for shipping more robot products than any other company anywhere in the world. Today iRobot automates tasks around home. During Tom’s tenure, iRobot was also a recognized world leader in mobile robot products that grasped objects in unstructured and dynamic domains. Such systems were used effectively in the aftermath of the Fukushima meltdown and are in use today by the military and in other industrial settings.

Prior to joining iRobot, Tom served at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a technology arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, where he managed programs in artificial intelligence, integrated learning, robotics, logistics, communications, command and control, tele-health, connected devices, and connected intelligent assistants. Earlier in his career, Tom served as a principal lead at Honeywell, a professor at the University of Maine, and in leadership and advisory roles in small & startup companies. Early career positions include General Motors and other various and sundry places and functions from databases to manufacturing backpacks. He holds a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a M.S. from the University of New Hampshire, and a B.S. from Michigan State University.

Steve Johnson - President & COO
Steve Johnson - President & COO

Steve Johnson

President & COO

Steve Johnson is the President and COO at Berkshire Grey. Steve believes in purpose-driven organizations, focusing on customers, disruptive technologies, and making an impact on industries and markets. Steve’s background includes leading enterprise software organizations, scaling hyper-growth enterprise companies globally, helping raise over $850M in funding, and participating in the creation of billions in market value for these companies.

Previously, Steve served as the Chief Commercial Officer of Intelex, a global enterprise software company. Intelex was acquired for $570M in June 2019 by Industrial Scientific. Prior to joining Intelex, Steve served as President and COO for Vidyard, and CRO for Hootsuite, an enterprise software company now used by over 80% of the Fortune 100 companies. At Hootsuite he managed the growth of the company from 27 people to over 1,000 people around the world. Earlier in his career, Steve worked for a number of category-creating software companies in CRM, Database Management, Total Interaction Management, and other spaces. Steve holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Business School with an emphasis in Management, Marketing, and International Business and a B.S. in Accounting from Union College.

Matt Mason, Ph.D. - Chief Scientist
Matt Mason, Ph.D. - Chief Scientist

Matt Mason, Ph.D.

Chief Scientist

As director, Matt was responsible for supervising ~ $80 million dollars per year top line revenue largely for contract R&D from industry partners such as Walmart, ABB, Kuka, etc., and US technology organizations such as the Army, DARPA, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. During his career, Matt has contributed to more ideas and technologies in robotics and artificial intelligence than can easily be tabulated and has numerous awards from organizations such as the IEEE. Matt has Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in artificial intelligence and robotics from MIT.

Matt Mason is the Chief Scientist at Berkshire Grey. Matt has spent 40 professional years solving unsolvable problems in robotics and is an internationally recognized technology leader. Matt has more influential publications in the leading robotics journals than just about anyone, and he wrote ‘the’ book on how robots pick things up (manipulation). Matt is the former director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon where he supervised all the activities of the Robotics Institute and the National Robotics Engineering Consortium (NREC).

Mark Fidler - Chief Financial Officer
Mark Fidler - Chief Financial Officer

Mark Fidler

Chief Financial Officer

Mark Fidler is Chief Financial Officer at Berkshire Grey. He has more than 25 years of financial leadership experience, the last 20 in technology-based companies focusing on developing and implementing strategies driving their successful growth. Mark has extensive experience in all aspects of finance and accounting, capital raising, tax, audit, and strategic planning. He joins Berkshire Grey from NEC Energy Solutions, where he helped achieve a 15-fold increase in revenue in four years as CFO and a member of the Board of Directors. As CFO at ReEnergy Holdings, LLC, he secured $100 million in new financing to optimize the company’s capital structure and fund capital expansions.

Prior to that, Mark was CFO of Ambient Corporation (NASDAQ: AMBT), a leading provider of utility-scale smart grid solutions, where he led the company’s listing on the NASDAQ; and spent 10 years at Evergreen Solar, Inc., as corporate controller and later VP of Finance, where he helped lead the global growth of the company’s operations. Earlier in his career, Mark held senior finance roles at the Boston Consulting Group and Hampshire Chemical Corporation and worked in the audit practice of Coopers & Lybrand. A certified public accountant, he has a B.S. degree in Accounting from Syracuse University and an MBA from Northeastern University.

Peter Van Alstine - SVP & General Manager, Retail
Peter Van Alstine - SVP & General Manager, Retail

Peter Van Alstine

SVP & General Manager, Vertical Markets

Peter Van Alstine is the SVP and General Manager of Berkshire Grey’s Retail business unit. Peter has deep general management and go-to-market experience across multiple industry verticals that have resulted in rapid and profitable growth. His leadership experience includes building product, sales, business development, client management, and marketing teams in dynamic and expanding environments that require delivering customer-centric solutions.

Prior to joining Berkshire Grey, Peter served as the CEO of R.E.D.D. Inc., an emerging food company that successfully scaled and executed an omnichannel strategy. Earlier in his career, he led national retail teams for Procter & Gamble which included mass merchants, department stores, grocery, and drugstore chains. During his time at Agero, Peter led the telematics business which was subsequently sold to Sirius XM, and later, as General Manager of its Insurance business, he was accountable for the creation and implementation of a large tech-enabled service offering that aggressively scaled to become a core long-term growth area. After Agero, Peter led Global Sales & Marketing for Elmet Technologies where his team partnered with customers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia to manufacture and deliver differentiated and highly valued products & services resulting in a successful private equity exit. Peter holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Dartmouth College.

Jessica Moran - SVP & General Manager, 3PL and Package Handling and Logistics
Jessica Moran - SVP & General Manager, 3PL and Package Handling and Logistics

Jessica Moran

SVP & General Manager, Strategic Account Group

Jessica is a transformational general manager with more than 20 years of technology industry experience in sales, product management, and operations and a track-record in building high-performing teams, strategies, and operations for high-growth B2B technology businesses. Most recently, for Bottomline Technologies she managed a SaaS-based B2B payment network serving over 420,000 businesses and handling over $200 billion in annual transaction volume. As general manager, Jessica engineered programs to drive revenue growth and customer value, successfully extended Bottomline’s reach into new markets and broadened partnership ventures.

Prior to joining BG, she held leadership positions for global organizations including Microsoft, Computer Associates, and Enterasys Networks. Jessica is a graduate of the University of Maine. She was a member of the Class of 2011 of Leadership Seacoast, a local nonprofit organization committed to the development of informed and active community leaders in New Hampshire’s Seacoast Region.

Pete Allen - VP and General Manager, Grocery and Convenience
Pete Allen - VP and General Manager, Grocery and Convenience

Pete Allen

VP and General Manager, Grocery and Convenience

Pete Allen is VP and General Manager, Grocery and Convenience at Berkshire Grey. Pete has spent his career helping to launch and drive early-stage growth for tech companies serving many of the nation’s largest grocery, foodservice, and convenience store companies. He is a customer-focused technology leader with more than 25 years of sales, marketing, and customer success experience. He has a proven track record of building teams and developing strategic processes to create sustained revenue growth and improve customer satisfaction.

Prior to Berkshire Grey, Pete held executive leadership roles with AI, SaaS, IoT, and telematics companies. As CEO of Cadec Global, Chief Client Officer with MiX Telematics Americas, EVP of Sales at Inthinc, and GM/EVP of GreenRoad, Pete drove growth, profitability, and customer retention. He strategically focused on partnering with customers to understand the challenges they face in order to deliver solutions that provide true customer value.

Pete’s work experience coupled with his background as a student athlete, youth sports coach, and overall sports enthusiast fosters his competitive drive, commitment to team, and servant leader mentality. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Marietta College.

Craig Hattabaugh - VP and General Manager, SGC
Craig Hattabaugh - VP and General Manager, SGC

Craig Hattabaugh

VP and General Manager, SGC

Craig Hattabaugh is VP and General Manager, SGC at Berkshire Grey. Craig is a proven executive who specializes in accelerating growth in technology-based companies by turning strategy into action. During his career, Craig has served as CEO, founding executive, global head of sales, and advisory board member in start-ups as well as global 500 companies.

Prior to BG, Craig was CEO of CIMCON Software, a global leader in information security and end-user computing risk management solutions. Previously, Craig was SVP of Global Sales and Operations for the Analytics business of TIBCO Software. He has held leadership positions at multiple start-up companies including Open Ratings and Formation Systems. Before that, he was Deputy Managing Director of EMEA for Aspen Technology. He has also held management positions at Texas Instruments Semiconductor Group and currently serves on the Advisory Board for Cogito.

Craig earned his MBA from Boston University, his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and has completed executive education in entrepreneurship development at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Christian Ehrbar - VP & General Counsel
Christian Ehrbar - VP & General Counsel

Christian Ehrbar

VP & General Counsel
Christian Ehrbar is Vice President & General Counsel at Berkshire Grey. He has over twenty years of experience providing legal solutions to early-stage and growth-stage technology companies and their investors. Christian’s general counsel experience includes both private and public companies and all manner of transactions impacting these businesses. To round out his emerging and growth-company experience, most recently, he served as IBM’s Lead Counsel, Cloud & Cognitive, helping to IBM advance and grow its Cloud/SaaS and AI-driven businesses. He came to IBM when IBM acquired Meteorix, a boutique SaaS IT consulting firm, where Christian served as General Counsel. His first GC role was with Evergreen Solar, a Nasdaq-listed enterprise with worldwide manufacturing operations. He began his career working for ten years with several leading law firms, finishing his outside counsel career at Goodwin. Christian earned his JD from Boston College Law School and a BA in Political Science at Kenyon College.
Chris Phaneuf - VP of Talent
Chris Phaneuf - VP of Talent

Chris Phaneuf

VP of Talent

Chris Phaneuf is Vice President of Talent at Berkshire Grey. Chris has more than 20 years of progressive Human Resource and operational leadership experience, primarily in high growth technology companies. These companies include RSA Security, Tibco, Carbonite, and Gazelle. During her time at RSA Security, she held several HR roles, ultimately managing the global management learning and development program prior to the acquisition of RSA by EMC. Most recently she was Senior Vice President of Operations at PlumChoice, which was acquired by SquareTrade, part of the Allstate family of companies. Chris has a B.S. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a M.Ed. in Human Resources from Boston University.

Kevin Ahearn - VP Strategy Packages and Logistics
Kevin Ahearn - VP Strategy Packages and Logistics

Kevin Ahearn

VP Strategy Packages and Logistics

Kevin’s professional career has centered on customer-focused product design and delivery. Kevin firmly believes in understanding the customer’s needs and delivering solutions that meet those needs while creating customer value. Prior examples of this include the development and deployment of mobile computing and payment processing solutions for transportation, retail, and distribution customers.

He is a results-oriented executive leader with over 30 years of experience in business leadership and technology solutions. Responsibilities have included global business, engineering, and operations management, all focused on delivering high-value initiatives for technology companies. Kevin’s work has resulted in a long line of commercial products and material revenue. Kevin has a B.S. in engineering from The Citadel and a graduate certificate in business management from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

Gertjan Dekkers - Managing Director EMEA
Gertjan Dekkers - Managing Director EMEA

Gertjan Dekkers

Managing Director EMEA

Gertjan Dekkers is Managing Director EMEA, for Berkshire Grey, leading the company’s expansion into Europe and other global markets. Gertjan has a proven track record in high growth international strategies and execution with a strong customer first mentality. Previously he served as the Sales Director Europe for Metapack (part of Stamps.com), the #1 shipping software solution for brands and retailers. He and his teams successfully generated revenue growth and customer value.

Gertjan has more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, and customer success positions in global organizations like Oracle and Adobe. He strategically focused on partnering with customers to understand the challenges they face in order to deliver solutions that provide true customer value.

Gertjan holds a Bachelor’s degree from Utrecht University of Applied Sciences.