At Specright, we have a simple but profound purpose as a company: We help companies make amazing, sustainable things. We exist to eliminate waste—wasted time, resources, and opportunities.
Trusted by Fortune 500, private label retail & challenger brands
What Specright Stands For
Our values show up in how we hire, how we work, and how we hold each other accountable.
Customer Obsessed
We prioritize understanding customer needs before proposing solutions, focusing on real outcomes rather than just activity. We know that trust is earned through expertise and consistent follow-through.
Kaizen
We stay curious and treat failure as a chance to learn rather than repeat mistakes. We embrace change and continuously raise the bar for ourselves, our teams, and the business.
Show Up for Each Other
We build trust through honest, direct feedback given respectfully. We’re in this together, which means actively helping peers succeed happens every day.
Above the Line
We own our results and treat problems as opportunities rather than blaming others, especially when things don’t go as planned. We choose solutions over excuses and favor taking action over waiting for a perfect plan.
Our Founding Story
For more than 20 years, Matthew Wright traveled across the country selling packaging, watching everything you can imagine be made. His experience as a supplier led him to create the first purpose-built Specification Management platform. Specright helps companies accelerate product development, improve compliance and reduce costs.
What Matthew couldn’t have known in 2014 was how foundational this work would become. Today, AI can only deliver value when it’s built on complete, structured product data. Specright provides exactly that — and that’s why we say “intelligence starts with the spec.”
Read about Matthew’s story and the rise of Spec Management in his book “The Evolution of Products and Packaging”. Available for download here or for purchase on Amazon.com
Matthew Wright is the Founder and CEO of FOREST-PKG, an AI-powered platform designed to make packaging knowledge more accessible, connected, and actionable across the global packaging ecosystem. FOREST-PKG enables buyers, vendors, academia, and industry partners to discover information, build relationships, and engage more efficiently through AI-powered search.
Wright also serves as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Specright, a company he founded. Specright created the Specification Management software category, and is the leader in intelligent Specification Data Management™ (SDM) and modern Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Specright’s AI-powered platform gives companies the data foundation they need to design, produce, and scale amazing, sustainable products with greater speed and efficiency.
A packaging industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience, Wright has held leadership positions at International Paper, Temple-Inland, and rightPAQ, a packaging company he founded and successfully scaled.
Throughout his career, Wright has led multiple mergers and acquisitions and has served as an advisor to numerous technology companies in the B2B supply chain space. He is the author of “The Evolution of Products and Packaging” and currently serves on the Michigan State University School of Packaging Industry Advisory Board.
Mike Boese is the CEO of Specright. He is a seasoned software executive with over two decades of executive leadership working with SMB and Enterprise customers at industry-leading companies like Taleo, SAP, PeopleSoft, and Oracle as well as scaling B2B SaaS startups. Most recently, Boese was CEO of Hearsay, a company specializing in digital client engagement for financial services firms. As CEO of Hearsay Corporation, he drove substantial new growth, significantly improved customer and employee satisfaction, and expanded the company’s headcount by 50%. He also oversaw the implementation of operational best practices and robust product innovations—including AI/ML capabilities—which culminated in a successful merger with Yext (NYSE: YEXT). Prior to Hearsay, Boese served as CEO of Certent Corporation, transforming it from a niche SaaS equity management provider into a multi-pillar, international fintech solutions leader.
He holds an MBA from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington.
Laura is the Chief Customer Officer at Specright, where she leads teams across professional services, customer success, and support to ensure customers thrive. She also co-hosts the “Beyond Packaging Podcast,” with Matthew Wright, where they discuss industry trends, interview leading innovators, and discuss the history of different types of packaging.Prior to Specright, she led advertising and analytics at GE Digital, GE’s Industrial Internet software business.
Before that, she was a consultant at Deloitte Digital working in enterprise digital transformation. Laura was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for marketing and advertising and Brand Innovators 40 Under 40 and 100 Women to Watch lists. She graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
Darin Wolter oversees worldwide sales and customer success with a focus on creating long-term, impactful relationships with Specright’s customers and partners. While overseeing global revenue growth and retention initiatives, his role ensures that we continue to provide exceptional experiences, maximize value to our customers and that our sales approach evolves as Specright grows.
Wolter has over 25 years sales leadership experience introducing disruptive technologies across a variety of industries including Financial Services, Media, and Marketing SaaS solutions. Prior to joining Specright, Darin oversaw revenue at WebOps category creator Pantheon and lead global sales teams at: Sysomos (acquired by Meltwater), Marketwired (acquired by NASDAQ) and Streetfusion (acquired by CCBN).
Darin holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Miami of Ohio University.
Ayman is Chief Technology Officer at Specright, where he leads the engineering team. Ayman started his career with the Microsoft Developer Division product groups where he spent over 15 years. He was the Group Program Manager for the Visual C++ team at Microsoft till early 2016. Ayman’s team in Microsoft was responsible for delivering the compilers, libraries, runtimes and IDE that enabled developers to create great native applications using Visual Studio. Through those years, he participated in shipping a wide range of world-class products starting with the various versions of Visual Studio to the platform tooling for Windows, Xbox, MS Office, SQL., etc.
He then joined HireRight, the world leader in the background screening market, where he was the Chief Technology Officer and part of the executive team who drove the company’s successful exit and its acquisition by a major private equity. Just before joining Specright, Ayman spent some time in Amazon’s core e-commerce platform team.
Ayman brings executive level experience that focuses on strategy setting and team growth. Prior to moving to the US, Ayman spent a year in Newcastle, Australia where he earned his Master degree in Software Engineering. In Addition, He holds a BSc. in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo. He currently lives in Irvine, CA with his wife and two daughters.
Karthik Rajagopal is the Chief Product Officer at Specright, where he leads product strategy and innovation. With over 25 years of experience in enterprise software, Karthik is passionate about delivering customer value through innovative solutions that are intuitive to adopt and use. He brings a value generation mindset to product innovation, ensuring solutions solve real business problems for large and small enterprises across diverse industries. Most recently, Karthik was Executive Vice President of Product at FourKites, where he led a global product and UX team supporting 500+ enterprise customers. He launched agentic AI solutions that are now deployed and delivering value at large enterprises, demonstrating his belief in meaningful AI adoption that drives real results. Prior to FourKites, he held senior product and solutions leadership roles at GT Nexus (acquired by Infor), E2open, Viewlocity Technologies, and i2 Technologies (now Blue Yonder). Karthik holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Cerys Davies is the Head of People at Specright, where she leads Recruitment, People Operations, Engagement, and Organizational Health. With more than 20 years of experience building and scaling People teams in SaaS, Cerys has a proven track record of driving employee satisfaction and high-growth workplace cultures. Before Specright, she served as Chief People Officer at Hearsay (acquired by Yext), where she significantly improved employee engagement and helped expand the company’s headcount by 50%. She has also held HR leadership roles at Medidata Solutions, Trustpilot—where she led U.S. HR—and Veeqo. Cerys holds a BA in American Studies from the University of Wales Swansea.
Peter Nilsson is Chief Marketing Officer at Specright, where he leads the company’s global marketing strategy, brand, messaging, and go-to-market initiatives. With more than 25 years of experience in enterprise software and supply chain technology, Peter has built and scaled marketing organizations that drive growth, strengthen market positioning, and accelerate revenue.
Prior to joining Specright, Peter served as Chief Marketing Officer at Eyelit Technologies, where he led the integration of four acquisitions, unified the company’s brand and product messaging, and helped double annual contract value per customer. Previously, he was CMO at One Network Enterprises (now Blue Yonder), where he led strategic messaging and integrated marketing initiatives across both commercial and public sector markets, helping strengthen the company’s position as a leader in autonomous supply chain management.
Mark Linford is the Chief Financial Officer at Specright, where he leads all accounting, finance, M&A, legal, investor relations, and FP&A activities. He is a seasoned finance executive whose career spans investment banking and high-growth technology leadership. As a Managing Director at Centerview Partners, Mark executed more than 50 transactions totaling over $50 billion in deal value.
Most recently, Mark has been instrumental in scaling category-leading SaaS companies. At Placer.ai ($100M+ ARR), he led a 20-person multidisciplinary team across FP&A, investor relations, Sales Ops, and Procurement, driving significant operational efficiencies in forecasting and deal execution. Prior to that, at Uniphore, he helped scale the business from $30M to $150M ARR and served as a key architect in securing more than $550M in funding. His work there transformed the company’s financial rigor — from rebuilding complex financial models to elevating board governance and leadership alignment.
Mark resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife, Jeehae, and their two sons, Gus and Harry.
“From automotive and aerospace to beauty, CPG, and food, I saw every industry struggle with a lack of specification data. I also realized any data that did exist was typically worthless because it lacked a common language and was hard to share. Not only was it frustrating, it was bad for business and led to waste. The answer seemed simple: a standard, templated system to manage specs. A single source of truth.”
Matthew Wright
Founder & Executive Chairman, Specright
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With 5 million+ products on Specright’s Specification Data Management (SDM) platform, we’re helping some of the world’s largest companies and challenger brands optimize costs, accelerate innovation, and reduce waste. See how you can join the Specification Management movement — we’ll start with a brief call to understand your goals and then schedule a tailored demo experience that fits your needs.
