Advisory Board Member Profile
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Matthew Maddox
Global Data Services
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Areas of Expertise
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As President of Global Data Services (GDS), Matthew Maddox is responsible for running all facets of the business. Maddox has a proven executive management track record with years of experience driving sales growth in the technology industry. Maddox has led strategic technological planning to achieve measurable business goals by prioritizing technology initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment and management of current and future technologies.
He has analyzed complex business needs of organizations and recommended the best technical solutions that maximize profit and bring value to the organization’s bottom line. Maddox has implemented technology standards across organizations to maintain a technological and competitive edge within the market. He has developed, tracked and controlled information technology annual operating and capital budgets in addition to promoting and overseeing strategic relationships between internal IT resources and external entities. Prior to joining GDS Maddox worked as Senior Director of Technology at Retail Technology Group (RTG), a leader in the Point of Sale Industry providing end-to-end technology solutions for a vast number of major retailers. As Technology Head, Maddox was responsible for supporting end to end solutions for almost all technologies that exist within the walls of a retail location. This would include products such as POS, KDS, and Servers, networking gear, drive through systems, digital menu boards, order confirmation boards, phone systems, cameras, music systems, and most of their associated peripherals. Technology services covered the gamut of all company business including procurement, project management, cabling and installation, staging, warehousing and asset management, software support through the 24x7 call center, database menu management, ongoing hardware maintenance with depot, advanced exchange, next business day onsite or same day onsite options for support.
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