Paul McElhinney oversees Vert's product manufacturing, strategic sales channels, and service & support operations.

An experienced technology operations manager and product engineer, Mr. McElhinney founded imachines, a custom software development firm that created industrial machine vision and robotic applications for such companies as Lucent Technologies, IBM, and Speedline Semiconductor.

At imachines, Mr. McElhinney was responsible for the sales of many sophisticated systems and built the company into a leading supplier of turnkey intelligent manufacturing machines.

Mr. McElhinney was also vice president of operations at Dyantex International, a semiconductor equipment company and Director of Manufacturing at Lasertron.

Mr. McElhinney has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Wentworth Institute of Technology.