Rodney has over 30 years of experience with packaging automation, notably including 15 years as technical director of aseptic packaging for Tetra Pak, Inc. There he led a team of 75 employees responsible for North American Product Development, Technical & Customer Services and global customer satisfaction initiatives.

Rodney took the exciting role of President of Power Automation Systems (PAS) in 2005 where he developed and built in partnership with Pat Mitchell, the owner and Founder of CNP, the first PowerStor automated storage and retrieval system.

Rodney is the holder of two patents and has an Executive Education from the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Hank Schmitt, Vice President of Operations
Hank Schmitt joined Power Automation Systems in 2008 as Vice President of Operations, responsible for the Engineering, Fabrication and Project Management.

Hank has over 40 years of experience in a wide array of production, automation and construction environments. Most recently, Hank was the Regional Director for Tetra Pak, where he was responsible for the sales, project implementation and after-market support and had 21 Market Company managers reporting to him. Hank was with Tetra Pak for 20 years during which he held positions in the areas of Project Management, Vice President of Engineering, North America and spent eight years as Director of Business Development for Region Asia and Americas with annual sales of $200 to $500 million per year.

Hank held his first engineering position with Lockheed Aircraft Company working in flight test on the C5A, C-141 and C-130 aircraft programs, specializing on AC/DC Power Systems, Flight Controls and Landing Gear Controls.

Hank holds patents in the sanitary processing equipment, B.S. Industrial Engineering and an Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Air Force 57th Weather Reconnaissance.

Cory Hypes, Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Cory is 20-year veteran of the material handling industry with experience successfully completing thousands of projects worth over $300M.  Cory is responsible for the global expansion of Power Automation Systems products and services. Based out of the new Midwest Office, Cory brings the passion and knowledge to assist our customers in meeting their business goals.

Cory started his career with Rapistan (now Dematic) with increasing responsibility over 14 years, from Salesman to District Manager to Business Development Manager. While at Rapistan (Siemens/Dematic), Cory started multiple sales offices and led several initiatives to grow new markets, most notably Assembly Systems for Manufacturers and Robotic Palletizing Solutions for Food and Beverage customers.

In 2006 Cory joined Intelligrated as Vice President of the Midwest Operations, that he started, and had P&L responsibility for. Cory and his team had great success with Intelligrated, growing the Midwest Operations into a profitable material handling business serving dozens of customers with many being loyal to the service and support given by Cory and his team.

Cory is a graduate of Providence College of Providence, Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in finance.