Bailey Robin, co-founder and CEO, graduated from University of Michigan Engineering and leaving his home state of Michigan to take a job selling recycled plastics for Bach Polymers, a plastics brokerage in Annapolis, MD. Armed with a Plastics News magazine, a laptop, a phone, and some good advice, he got to work. The job was fairly simple: call people and ask them what plastics they have and what plastics they need. After 2 years on the job, Bailey built a 10 MMLBS/month book of plastics trading. Trading plastics progressed from a job, to a career, to a life. At this point, Bailey would decide to either work the rest of his life capturing value for himself, or dedicate the rest of his life to creating value for others. For an engineer, the choice was simple.

In late 2020, Bailey called his cousin Alex Lambrides who was developing CMS platforms for Fortune 500's and pitched the idea of streamlining supply chains for the betterment of the world. After exploring the idea for a few months, Alex went all in by leaving his job, selling his car, and going full time as Matium's CTO. Since then, Matium has become the interactive supply chain network powered by an all-in-one materials trading, processing, and shipping platform helping customers decrease the financial, carbon, and material waste within their supply chains. Matium currently has over 400 companies and 150 MMLBS of materials ordered on the platform and a team of 21 FTEs and KTRs working to build next generation of market infrastructure for industrial materials and services. With aggressive plans for growth beyond plastics in the next 12 months, the future for the company and its network is one of abundance.