Bio

Operator who has run the AI adoption problem twice — in a regulated public company and a seed-stage startup — and rebuilt a manufacturer's production line in between.

Mathew Hager spent seven years as a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer, moved into manufacturing and then technical consulting, founded and ran an analytics team at Qualtrics, and rebuilt a failing manufacturer's production line as co-owner and chief operating officer — cutting build time from three months to four weeks.

The through-line is narrower than the job titles suggest: build the standard, teach it, and get it adopted by people who don't work for you. The hard part is never the technology — it's the people who are right to push back.

He holds an MBA from Temple University's Fox School of Business and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from San Diego State University, and is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.