PierceGray Retained by Metglas for Senior Operations Search
April 24, 2026 – PierceGray was recently retained by Metglas to lead in its search for a vice president of operations. This executive will serve as the senior on-site operational leader for Metglas’ 24/7 manufacturing facility, with responsibility for all aspects of plant performance excluding finance, HR, and IT. Reporting to the president and COO, this role represents a critical leadership transition as long-tenured technical leadership increasingly shifts focus toward enterprise-level priorities and future site development.
The VP of operations will own the delivery of Metglas’ manufacturing strategy, balancing near-term execution excellence with longer-term capacity expansion and operational scaling. This leader will drive safety, quality, throughput, cost control, and continuous improvement while developing leaders, systems, and processes capable of supporting significant growth in a highly technical, regulated environment.
Metglas is a subsidiary of Proterial America, part of Proterial, Ltd., a global advanced materials company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with approximately $7 billion in revenue and worldwide manufacturing, R&D, and commercial operations. Formerly known as Hitachi Metals, Proterial was acquired by Bain Capital and rebranded in 2023, bringing renewed investment focus and growth ambition to the platform.
Bain Capital is a global private investment firm, with approximately $185 billion in assets under management. The firm invests across a diverse range of industries, including industrials, technology, healthcare, consumer, financial services, and real estate.
PierceGray is a specialized, retained executive search firm focused on building leadership teams in investor-backed environments. The firm is functionally-focused, hiring executives and building teams in the following disciplines: operations and supply chain, sales and marketing, finance and transformation, and general management. PierceGray’s clients include private equity firms and portfolio companies as well as publicly-held companies across North America. PierceGray has been operating since 2006 and serves clients in nearly every industry sector in North America.
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Matt Hamlin is the managing partner of PierceGray. Based in New York, he leads the firm’s day-to-day operations as well as key client engagements, specializing in C-suite placements in high-growth transformational environments. Prior to PierceGray, Mr. Hamlin was a management consultant focused on procurement and supply chain, gaining exposure to private equity during his time at Alvarez and Marsal. He has worked across nearly every industry sector, with search experience aligned to PierceGray’s functional offerings.
Westinghouse Search
PierceGray is also currently assisting Westinghouse Electric Corporation in its search for a senior vice president, nuclear fuel manufacturing to lead end-to-end manufacturing performance across a global footprint—covering safety, quality, productivity, cost, delivery, sustainability, digital enablement, and talent. The SVP will oversee operations and materials management for five nuclear power industry regulated manufacturing facilities in the U.S., U.K., and Sweden.
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This role ensures compliance with global nuclear regulatory standards and drives innovation through digital enablement, automation, and modular manufacturing techniques. Furthermore, the SVP will own the strategic scope and programs necessary to enable the expansion of the fuel manufacturing function in support of new reactors, new fuel types, and projected future demands.
Westinghouse has a 130-year history of innovation that began when their founder, George Westinghouse, commercialized the alternating current and forever changed the way electricity was distributed. The company’s legacy continues in the nuclear era, which originated when they built the world’s first commercial pressurized water reactor in Shippingport, PA. More than 60 years later, nearly half of the nuclear reactors in operation around the globe use Westinghouse technology.
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