Robert Slater has a 30-year career in the industry spanning both primary and secondary wood. At Yates-American he worked his way up from Service Technician VP of sales. In the 1990s, he worked with Weinig as VP of the Optimization Division and in 2006, became the VP of Solid Wood Technologies Division for Stiles Machinery, where he has developed a comprehensive solid wood machinery offering for customers enhancing production processes affecting moulding, ripping and cross-cutting of solid wood as well as software operating systems.