Jon Spencer

Jon Spencer has spent more than a decade working with companies to centralize enterprise-wide automation. When Fortra acquired MVP Systems Software in 2018, he embraced the chance to play a key role in the company’s automation business, with a wealth of new resources and career opportunities to boot. Now director of sales for the Automation business unit, Jon looks back on how open communications helped him feel right at home from day one. 

As part of Fortra, Jon’s former competitors became his coworkers. He points to the wealth of opportunity to collaborate with the sales directors from other Fortra businesses. “The cross-selling program is tremendous,” he says of the company’s enviable automation portfolio, which spans both enterprise job scheduling and robotic process automation.

Jon and his team have worked closely with existing customers to evaluate automation options as their business and technology needs change. “Having a centralized platform to run automation from, even if it’s automation related to another Fortra product, puts us in a really strong position compared to our competitors.”