Matt Mahmood, chief operating officer, Nortech Systems Inc.
Matt Mahmood, new chief operating officer at Nortech Systems Inc., is working to strengthen international operations at the Maple Grove-based electronics manufacturing services company.
As chief operating officer, Mahmood oversees all aspects of Nortech's manufacturing, engineering, global sourcing and business development in its core medical, industrial and aerospace/defense markets.
He brings an international business background and more than 20 years of management experience in manufacturing, technology and finance to publicly traded Nortech, which has been building up operations at a new facility in China and has had operations in Mexico since 2002. "We're going wherever our customers take us," Mahmood said.
Mahmood previously was managing director at Marabek LLC, an advisory, acquisitions and holding company in Minneapolis that works with manufacturing companies in the United States, Germany, China and Mexico, its website said.
Before that, Mahmood was chief operating officer at Thermotech Inc./Pioneer Plastics in Hopkins and Eagan. He also was founder and chief operating officer at Circata Corp., a wireless infrastructure developer in Eagan.
Among Mahmood's priorities is unifying Nortech's manufacturing and engineering resources.
"I'm trying to make sure we have a common platform so we can all share resources and ideas and work through problems together," he said.
Mahmood has an MBA from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.
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