James Sharples is the vice president of global business acceleration at Swisslog, a leading provider of best-in-class warehouse automation and software. Since joining Swisslog in 1998, James has held various management positions throughout the company’s realization, design, consulting and sales departments. James has also successfully led Swisslog’s Global Design Council for the four years and been instrumental in securing a number of international projects for the company. Image courtesy of Swisslog

Ron May is a founding member and senior solution consultant at Lucas Systems. A global expert on warehouse process optimization, voice-directed mobile applications and user experience, he has nearly four decades of system design, development and implementation experience. As its chief architect and software engineer, May developed Lucas software solutions, including its innovative voice-directed mobile applications. He has collaborated on hundreds of distribution center projects, including the earliest implementations of speech recognition systems for non-picking processes and groundbreaking multimodal systems combining voice, scanning and other data entry techniques. Prior to Lucas Systems, he helped commercialize industrial speech recognition technology as a founding member of Westinghouse Electric Voice Systems Division.

Matthew Martinez is a mechanical project engineer in Gresham Smith’s Industrial market based in Nashville, Tennessee. Matthew is fluent in mechanical systems design, including HVAC and process utility systems for a wide variety of Industrial clients, with a special focus on sustainable design. He is also experienced in leading diverse project teams and utilizing BIM (Revit, Navisworks) to achieve project goals.

Ben Davis is a mechanical project engineer in Gresham Smith’s Industrial market based in Nashville, Tennessee. Ben has diverse experience in both design engineering and power infrastructure construction management and commissioning.