About Verusen

Building the intelligent, connected
MRO supply chain.

Verusen is the AI-native optimization platform for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supply chains. Our AI makes sense of the messy materials data already in your ERP and EAM systems, then tells every site what to stock, what to share, and what to stop buying. Asset-intensive enterprises use Verusen to free up working capital without putting uptime at risk.

$138B

MRO spend analyzed

54M+

SKUs understood

10X

Average customer ROI

Our story

Rooted in supply chain
experience

Paul Noble founded Verusen to solve the complex problems of supply chains and materials management. After more than a decade at The Sherwin-Williams Company, where he specialized in supply chain and manufacturing and led its Eastern U.S. Industrial Distribution business, he set out to simplify how supply chains use an AI-native approach to understand existing system data and human knowledge, so teams can make better decisions that balance working capital and risk.

Paul Noble

Paul Noble

Founder

20+ years in industrial supply chain and distribution. Forbes contributor on supply chain and AI, and an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 Southeast finalist.

Paul Noble is the Founder of Verusen, and shaped the company’s vision and strategic direction. He has more than 20 years of experience in the industrial supply chain and distribution space, including over a decade with The Sherwin-Williams Company, where he specialized in supply chain and manufacturing and led its Eastern U.S. Industrial Distribution business unit.

Paul founded Verusen to solve the complex problems of supply chains and materials management, simplifying how supply chains use an AI-native approach to understand existing system data and human knowledge to make better decisions balancing working capital and risk.

Noble is a regular contributor to Forbes, writing on supply chain and AI. He was recognized as one of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s “Pros to Know” for five consecutive years, and was named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 Southeast U.S. Award finalist.

Noble graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Management and Marketing from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee.

Our core values

What we believe,
and how we work.

01

Good Humans

Our impact should enable the well-being and aspirations of our employees, our customers, our shareholders, and our community.

02

Innovation

We strive to be on the cutting edge and embrace change as opportunities to venture for greatness.

03

Accountability

We are accountable to each other built on a foundation of trust.

04

Empathy

We practice and strive for greater empathy believing in a collaborative approach to solving problems and amplifying value.

05

Bias Toward Action

We are biased towards action taking imperative to build, implement, adapt, and resolve.

Our leadership

The team building it.

Operators, technologists, and supply chain leaders who have spent their careers in industrial distribution, enterprise software, and MRO.

Scott Matthews

Scott Matthews

Chief Executive Officer

As CEO, Scott leads day-to-day operations alongside Founder Paul Noble. Scott brings 16 years of leadership experience to Verusen.

Previously, Scott was CEO of MRP, the Philadelphia, PA-based global provider of predictive customer acquisition software and services. Before joining MRP, Scott was CEO of CrowdTwist Inc. for four years. Scott successfully negotiated multimillion-dollar contracts with Fortune 500 accounts while repositioning the go-to-market strategy for CrowdTwist’s customer loyalty SaaS solution. During Scott’s tenure, the company rapidly scaled sales achieving 728% overall revenue growth, delivered strong business performance, and was acquired by Oracle in a multimillion-dollar deal in 2019. Earlier, Scott held senior-level roles in technology, sales, and SaaS companies.

Jeremiah Woodford

Jeremiah Woodford

Chief Revenue Officer

As CRO, Jeremiah is responsible for leading the entire sales process, including revenue and sales pipeline creation, market development, and sales operation. Woodford brings over two decades of sales leadership experience in asset-intensive industries, MRO, and supply chains. He previously held leadership positions as CRO of IFS EAM and at IBM Consulting as Partner & Global Practice Leader of MRO Inventory Optimization, helping customers provide global visibility to their supply chain and MRO practices.

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Ross Sonnabend

Chief Product Officer

As CPO, Ross is responsible for product and design, the product portfolio and the customer experience. Ross brings exceptional expertise and industry knowledge in technology products with over 20 years of experience with established and startup companies, drawing on a background in Business Strategy, Finance, Operations, and Product Management. Ross has worked with investors, founders, and management to help strategize and develop company vision, bring products to market, and ultimately take ideas from paper to scaled businesses. Ross was recognized as a Supply Chain Pro to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive in 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Most recently, Ross was Senior Vice President, Product, Strategy, and Marketing at RF Code, a leader in industrial IOT and hardware asset management for data centers and supply chains. Before RF Code, Sonnabend served as COO of Univa (sold to Altair in 2020) and was a founding member of Interset Software, a leader in Security Analytics, which was sold to Microfocus in 2019.

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Marcus Tewksbury

Chief Technology Officer

As CTO, Marcus has extensive experience in developing scalable, distributed cloud applications (AWS, GCP, Azure) as well as in data, data engineering, and data science (AI, ML, NLP, LLM, GPT).

He has successfully navigated various organizational sizes and stages, co-founding two startups that had strategic exits, spearheading a PE technology turnaround, and growing a SaaS offering from scratch to $100MM+ ARR for a global conglomerate.

Jim Braun

Jim Braun

Vice President of Channel Partnerships & Sales

As Vice President of Channel Partnerships & Sales, Jim leads Verusen’s channel partnerships and partner-led sales. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experience across supply chain, procurement, and biotech manufacturing operations, where he led professional teams and large capital projects that strengthened his companies’ positions in competitive markets.

Jim is known for solving complex technical problems, building strong teams, and aligning partners and stakeholders around a shared vision and goals. He has led both on-site and remote teams and built trusted relationships with vendors, external manufacturers, product teams, and customers.

Joseph Monti

Joseph Monti

SVP of Finance

As SVP of Finance, Joe is a collaborative financial leader who helps drive the growth of companies by bringing a strong process-oriented financial and strategic planning approach to a business. He’s driven growth of 300% plus while driving 20% growth in gross margin by providing insights on potential ROI and growth drivers to the top line while also driving efficiencies in the business and reducing expenses.

Addy Robinson

Addy Robinson

Head of People Operations

As Head of People, Addy oversees employee recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and benefits with a focus on the overall experience of Verusen employees. Addy will be integral in the execution of Verusen’s diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic vision. Addy has 5+ years of progressive People Operations experience.

Prior to joining Verusen, Addy was Director, People & Culture at Personify Corp, with several People focused roles at MemberClicks LLC, a membership management SaaS company.

Addy graduated from the University of Washington.

Awards & recognition

Building something worth recognizing.

Gartner®

2025 Cool Vendor™ for AI-Driven MRO Supply Optimization

Gartner®

Hype Cycle™ for Procurement and Sourcing Solutions, 2025

Inc. 5000

Honoree, America’s fastest-growing private companies
20th Annual Pros to Know 2021 Winner Verusen

Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Pros to Know
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Technology Association of Georgia

Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies
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Technology Association of Georgia

Top 10 Innovative Technology Companies
2020 Top-Rated Culture Award Powderkeg Logo

PowderKeg

Top-Rated Culture Award

Help build what’s next

Ecosystem partners

Better together.

Systems integrators, consultancies, technology platforms, and MRO service providers who help our customers get more from Verusen.

Investors

Backed by investors who know industrial tech.

Operations team analyzing inventory data for MRO efficiency.

“While many AI initiatives have struggled to meet expectations, this collaboration has exceeded them. We have reduced our maintenance inventories and stockout risks by using their AI tools to bridge our multiple ERP systems. The results are undeniable.”

Gary Phillips · Corporate Procurement, MRO & IT, Domtar

The Verusen comparison

See how Verusen compares to traditional MRO approaches.

Find the working capital hiding in your storerooms.

Don’t wait for clean data to start making better decisions. Book a demo, or start with something smaller.

No data cleanse required. 3X ROI guaranteed.

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Calculate your savings

A personalized savings estimate for your operation.

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Watch the tour

See the Material Graph and explainable AI in action.

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Why legacy tools fall short

Why the systems you run today can’t optimize MRO on their own.

30 minutes

Talk to an MRO expert

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