Novanta CEO and leadership

Matthijs Glastra leads global technology businesses, covering Healthcare, Industrial and Technology Industries. He currently is Chief Executive Officer at NASDAQ listed NOVANTA [NOVT], delivering mission critical technology solutions to medical device and advanced industrial OEMs. A global citizen, Matthijs has a 25+ year track record of growing and transforming global technology businesses. His passion is to build, inspire and align organizations and teams around a purpose and mission that matters.

Experienced Chief Accounting Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the advanced industrial and medical device manufacturing industry. Strong professional experience in SEC Reporting, Revenue Recognition, Consolidation, Technical Accounting, Acquisitions, Divestitures, Business Process Improvement, ERP Implementation and Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Highly accomplished Human Resources Leader with repeated success advancing company strategy by enabling growth with a balance of business operating expertise and Human Resource functional leadership. Expert in turn-around initiatives, M&A, continuous improvement and financial management facilitating growth, improving margins and capital utilization. Adept at strategy development, hands on LEAN business process and program design and implementation. Global executive with expansive domestic and int. experience operating in more than 14 countries. Collaborative problem solver with a history of success at all organizational levels including employee, executive and board of directors. Talent Management:• Implemented global processes for Talent Assessment and IDP utilizing competencies and tools. Led the global assessment, ranking and Board talent review.• Implemented processes to align talent development objectives with key organizational goals. Executive Compensation & Benefits:• Planned and executed a turn-around of the Executive Compensation Plans for Named Executive Officers (NEO) and Corporate Officers improving external assessments by Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) from significant concern to no concern and supportive of programs.• Recognized thought Leader and subject matter expert at controlling medical expense inflation with average annual renewal increases in 2003-2014 at less than 50% of national inflation trend and in many years achieved flat or negative increases compared to expiring budgets. Health Risk Management program received the New England Employer Benefit Council Best Practices Award for 2013.M&A:• Significant involvement supporting more than ten acquisitions valued at more than $2.5B including pre-purchase functional due diligence, assessing deal risks/opportunities, defining synergies, planning and executing integration and achieving defined synergy goals.

Sarah Betadam is a technology & management leader with 18+ years’ experience in strategic business planning, full-lifecycle project management, change management, leading top-performing teams in complex global business environments. Presently with Novanta of Boston, MA, enacts change management techniques in order to improve internal communications between business and technology leaders. At Splunk, Sarah managed ~$32M GTM Transformation Program overhauling all business capabilities, increasing operational speed, empowering company to grow to $5BN in annual revenue. At QIAGEN, after its acquisition of (3) discrete companies, Sarah led $20M, 3-year Agile digitalization program, $2M integration of global companies, integrating multiple systems in (4) months.

Sarah effortlessly fosters alignment among project teams, identifies and resolves complex issues, assembles/mobilizes/ leads global cross-functional teams. She successfully collaborates with C-suite executives. Sarah continually refines best practices.

SIGNATURE STRENGTHS

Managing Multiple Concurrent, Cross-Functional Projects

Building & Leading Cross-Functional Teams

Establishing Appropriate Project Management Framework

Change Management

Applications Development

Product Management

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&As)

Business Process Mapping & Re-engineering

Project Management

SDLC Practices

Customer / End-User Advocate Hands-on Technical Support

Player-Coach

Budget / P&L Oversight

Client Relationship Management

Issue / Risk Management

Technology Automation Initiatives

Agile / Waterfall / Scrum Methodologies

Software Procedural Design

Portfolio Management

Strategic Business Planning

P&L Oversight

Global Business

Integration

Leadership

Collaboration

Player-Coach

TECHNOLOGY

Salesforce, SteelBrick salesforce (CPQ), Workday, PeopleSoft/Oracle, Oracle Planning, Marketo, Pardot



Domo (BI), Cognos BI / Planning, SAP BusinessObjects, PowerBI

Okta, Informatica, Tenrox, Kronos, Concur, PLM Arena

MS SharePoint / Office, Jira, Confluence, Smartsheets

Matthijs Glastra leads global technology businesses, covering Healthcare, Industrial and Technology Industries. He currently is Chief Executive Officer at NASDAQ listed NOVANTA [NOVT], delivering mission critical technology solutions to medical device and advanced industrial OEMs. A global citizen, Matthijs has a 25+ year track record of growing and transforming global technology businesses. His passion is to build, inspire and align organizations and teams around a purpose and mission that matters.