Charting a Course for SuccessNorth Carolina · Nationwide engagements

Operational improvement · M&A · Project delivery

Better operations.
Stronger businesses.
Lasting value.

Improve operating performance, deliver critical projects, and build capacity for your next stage of growth. The Saloom Group helps owners, sponsors, and leadership teams turn business priorities into practical execution—through investment in people and processes.

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Strategy through executionNew Bern, NC

Executive experience behind our work

Volvo GroupPrevostMack TrucksHatteras YachtsMalibu BoatsMaverick Boat GroupMJM Yachts

Where we make an impact

From the investment thesis
to the factory floor.

Choose the support your business needs: acquisition execution, better operating performance, experienced leadership, manufacturing scale-up, or project delivery. Each engagement has a clear scope, defined outputs, and measures of success.

01 / TRANSACTION SUPPORT

M&A operational diligence & integration

Understand capacity, execution risk, and improvement potential before close. Turn those findings into a focused integration and value creation plan.

What you receive
Operational assessment, risk and opportunity review, integration roadmap, and 100-day action plan.

What an engagement can include
  • Manufacturing, quality, labor, and supply chain assessment
  • Capacity constraints, capital needs, and operational risk review
  • Post-close integration and 100-day execution plans
  • Carve-out readiness and operating model alignment
02 / PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

World-class production systems & operational excellence

Build a production system around your business. Apply Lean, Toyota Production System, World Class Manufacturing, and Six Sigma to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people development.

What you receive
Performance baseline, prioritized improvement roadmap, daily management routines, and team coaching.

What an engagement can include
  • Production-system maturity assessment and phased transformation roadmap
  • Strategy deployment, daily management, leader standard work, and KPI accountability
  • Built-in quality, error proofing, Kaizen, and structured problem solving
  • Cost deployment, maintenance reliability, logistics, and loss reduction
  • Leadership coaching, frontline capability, and turnaround execution
03 / EMBEDDED LEADERSHIP

Fractional & interim executive support

Keep priorities moving during a leadership transition, performance reset, or period of rapid change. Get hands-on operating leadership that aligns teams, resolves obstacles, and owns execution.

What you receive
An accountable operating leader, execution priorities, management cadence, and board or sponsor reporting.

What an engagement can include
  • Fractional or interim COO and transformation leadership
  • Management cadence and cross-functional execution
  • Board and sponsor reporting tied to operating priorities
  • Leadership development and succession support
04 / GROWTH & SCALE

Manufacturing strategy & industrialization

Build the people, production systems, and capacity needed to move from today's operation to tomorrow's demand.

What you receive
Capacity and layout plan, production readiness milestones, workforce requirements, and ramp-up roadmap.

What an engagement can include
  • Greenfield launches and facility expansion planning
  • Production line design, standard work, and operator training
  • New product launches and ramp-up execution
  • Vertical integration, warehousing, and material flow
05 / PROJECT DELIVERY

Project management & execution

Turn a business priority into a coordinated project with clear scope, accountable owners, and a practical delivery plan. We lead cross-functional execution from kickoff through completion and operational handover.

What you receive
Defined scope, integrated schedule, budget tracking, risk register, and handover plan.

What an engagement can include
  • Project scope, objectives, milestones, and acceptance criteria
  • Integrated schedules, resource planning, budget tracking, and status reporting
  • Risk, issue, dependency, and change management
  • Coordination across engineering, operations, suppliers, and leadership
  • Capital projects, facility expansions, new production lines, product launches, and integration initiatives
  • Commissioning readiness, handover, and review of results against objectives

Experience behind the execution

Proven operating discipline.
Applied to your business.

Our approach draws on executive responsibility for profitability, capacity, quality, and people across automotive and marine manufacturing. These selected career results demonstrate the experience brought to your engagement.

PROFITABILITY · MAVERICK BOAT GROUP

$7.6M → $27.4M

EBITDA growth

Experience connecting productivity, capacity, cost discipline, and operating accountability to financial performance.

PRODUCTIVITY · VOLVO GROUP

58% → 90%

Product-line efficiency

Experience improving production flow, standardized work, line balance, and material delivery.

PRODUCTION SYSTEMS · VOLVO GROUP

WCM Gold

World Class Manufacturing

Experience developing and deploying a site-wide production system that builds capability in people and processes.

Historical achievements from Matt Saloom's prior executive roles; not The Saloom Group client results or guarantees of future performance.

Who we work with

Partners for the
moments that matter.

Serving automotive, transportation, industrial, and marine businesses where operating performance drives enterprise value. Engagements are tailored to your processes, people, market, and stage of growth.

Private equity sponsors & deal teams

Operational insight before an acquisition and experienced leadership to execute the value creation plan after close.

Owners & founder-led businesses

Structure, capacity, and leadership to support growth, improve performance, or prepare the business for a transition.

Boards & management teams

A practical operating partner for turnarounds, leadership gaps, integration, and complex manufacturing challenges.

Your journey to world-class performance

Build the system.
Develop the people.
Sustain the results.

A production system is how your business works every day: how leaders set direction, teams solve problems, and improvements become standard practice. Whether you are beginning Lean, stabilizing an operation, or advancing an established system, we help you take the next practical step.

01 / ASSESS & ALIGN

Know your starting point.

Assess production-system maturity, observe work at the source, and baseline safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people measures. Identify the largest losses and constraints, then agree on a phased roadmap tied to business priorities.

02 / BUILD THE FOUNDATION

Make performance visible.

Establish workplace organization, standardized work, daily management, visual controls, and leader routines. Clarify ownership and train teams to recognize abnormalities, escalate issues, and solve problems with facts.

03 / PILOT & PROVE

Improve where work happens.

Start in a priority line or process. Use Kaizen, root-cause analysis, line balancing, error proofing, and material-flow improvements to remove losses. Measure the operational and financial impact before expanding.

04 / SCALE & INTEGRATE

Connect the whole operation.

Extend proven practices across production, quality, maintenance, logistics, and engineering. Link strategy deployment, cost deployment, capacity planning, and management reviews so local improvements support company goals.

05 / COACH & SUSTAIN

Build capability that lasts.

Coach executives, plant leaders, supervisors, and frontline teams to own the system. Develop internal improvement leaders, review maturity and results, and reinforce standards so progress continues after the engagement.

THE PRACTICAL OUTCOME

A roadmap your team can own.

Your engagement can produce a maturity assessment, prioritized transformation roadmap, KPI baseline, pilot plan, and coaching cadence. The pace and methods fit your operation, resources, and business objectives.

Lasting change requires investment in people and processes. We work as a change agent alongside your team, developing leaders and building the routines, skills, and accountability that keep improvement moving. Our methods draw on Lean, Toyota Production System, and World Class Manufacturing experience.

Your operating partner

Experienced leadership.
Working alongside your team.

The Saloom Group is led by Matt Saloom, whose experience spans Volvo Group manufacturing leadership and President and COO roles in marine manufacturing. He brings hands-on responsibility for transformation, growth, integration, and operating performance.

As a change agent and Co-Founder of Get Certified for Operational Excellence, Matt combines execution with leadership development. Your engagement focuses on the people, processes, and practical decisions needed to move your business forward.

About Matt & our approach

Start a conversation

What's next
for your business?

Tell us what needs to change, what is standing in the way, and what success would look like. Start with a 20-minute introductory conversation to discuss priorities and the right scope of support.

Call Matthew Saloom(252) 259-0695

Based in New Bern, North Carolina.
Available for engagements nationwide.

What brings you here?

Discuss operational diligence, integration priorities, or the first 100 days after an acquisition.

Discuss your prioritiesCall Matthew to discuss your area of interest.