Custom Glass Solutions (CGS), an OE supplier of Type A windshields and aftermarket RV glass systems, hired a new CEO earlier this month.
Matthew Dietrich was named CEO effective May 8. Dietrich was the CEO of Alco Manufacturing Corp., among the largest contract precision machining companies in North America.
CGS is owned by private-equity firm Stellex Capital Management.
“Matt brings to CGS an admirable combination of diverse operational experience and commercial leadership skills, combined with a genuine professional passion to improve and operate middle-market businesses,” said Michael Stewart, managing partner at Stellex and a CGS board director. “We are excited to bring Matt on board and believe that his skillset will help drive positive results for Custom Glass Solutions.”
Dietrich has more than 35 years of professional experience scaling, optimizing and guiding industrial-engineered products businesses in various functional, executive and board leadership roles, CGS said.
Dietrich said: “The Custom Glass Solutions platform offers a really attractive set of products, process expertise and technical capabilities that are desirable to our existing customers, and also to a broader set of potential applications and end markets. I am very optimistic that we can continue to leverage the combined attributes of this business to achieve additional profitable growth and higher operational efficiencies. Ultimately these are opportunities that enable us to better serve and delight our customers.”
An engineer by background, Dietrich led industrial businesses in the public, private, foreign and private equity-owned arenas, with profit-and-loss sizes ranging from $50 million to almost $1 billion in revenue.
CGS has fabricated windshields in Ohio since 1974. Since October 2018, when the company was acquired by Stellex, CGS has been focused on growth, expanding its footprint in Ohio, and acquiring NASG Holdings Inc. and Cameron Glass, Inc. CGS is actively focused on organic growth and business optimization, the company said.
