Founded in 2012, Orbweaver’s talented, cross-functional team includes electronics manufacturing leaders, veteran software programmers, design experts, and client relations specialists who work hard to exceed user expectations.
The Problem We Solve
The electronics channel still moves its data by hand.
Part specifications, pricing, availability, quotes, orders, and point-of-sale and direct sales reporting, commission calculations pass between manufacturers and distributors through emails, spreadsheets, portals, and PDFs. Every manual step is a place where margin leaks, errors surface after the order, and skilled people spend their days reformatting files instead of selling.
Orbweaver exists to close that gap. The platform automates the movement of data across both sides of the channel in real time, so a manufacturer’s update reaches every distributor in the right format automatically, and a distributor’s orders and signals flow back the same way.
The Platform
Five products over a single exchange layer.
DATAHUB is the secure, real-time backbone that every other product runs on. FORGE handles part data syndication and supplier data intake for manufacturers. RELAY powers customer-facing API enablement, trade document processing, and quote and order automation. AMPLIFY brings AI-driven quote and order intake to distributors. SIGNAL delivers channel intelligence: point-of-sale data, commission calculations, design registration, and ship-and-debit reconciliation, built on Budde Marketing’s three decades of commercial-data expertise following Orbweaver’s acquisition of Budde.
Together they make Orbweaver the only platform that services both sides of the electronics network at scale
The People
Built by people who know this industry.
Orbweaver is people-powered, with a cross-functional team that combines electronics-manufacturing veterans, career software engineers, design experts, and client-relations specialists. That mix matters in an industry with its own nomenclature, processes, and requirements. Orbweaver speaks the language natively and applies it to customers’ global supply-chain needs.
Co-Founder, CEO
With more than 25 years’ experience in the contract manufacturing and finance industries, Chris has both the entrepreneurial spirit to spearhead critical customer programs and multidisciplined insight to navigate program development.
From managing his own contract manufacturing business, Qualtronics Corp. Inc. (“QCI”), to running the business development operations for DA-TECH Corp. and SWEMCO, Chris has been involved in all aspects of the contract manufacturing industry, including manufacturing, sales, finance, quality, and engineering.
Previously, Chris held the position of President & CEO of Runes Corp., a consulting firm he founded offering back-office financial management services. He served as an officer and director of several corporations, including publicly-traded firms.
Chris holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an MBA with a focus in Entrepreneurship from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.
Co-Founder, CTO
Tony Powell has a 20-year record of success designing and implementing enterprise integration and high-volume transaction processing systems for Fortune 500 companies domestically as well as the EU, Middle East, Asia, and India. He has held many technical positions in software engineering and executive management. Tony began a career in global software consulting with an IBM business partner. He joined Life Prints Solutions LLC, a biometric startup, an experience that solidified his entrepreneurial path. After he founded GroupGauge Inc., a social data processing firm, Tony and Chris Ciesielka, Orbweaver’s CEO, partnered to develop Orbweaver’s first product for the electronics manufacturing industry, known today as Orbweaver Inform.
Tony’s unique insights have led his drive to apply technical solutions to business problems in a very efficient and unique way. He holds patents pertaining to software messaging and data integrity, and guest lectures on the entrepreneurial process in Lehigh University’s Venture Series program.
Tony holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. and an MBA with a focus in Economics from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.
COO
As Chief Product Officer, Scott Muhl is passionate about delivering value to customers through innovative software products. With nearly 20 years of experience in the industry, Scott draws on a diverse skill set to create elegant solutions for complex business problems.
Scott’s background includes software development, project management, sales architecture, account management, and product design. This gives him a unique, end-to-end perspective of the software lifecycle that allows for pragmatic decision-making and efficient delivery.
Scott takes a customer-first approach to operations, working closely with colleagues and clients to understand their challenges and deliver solutions that solve their pain points and provide the most value.
Scott holds a B.S. in Computer Science from DeSales University in Center Valley, PA.
Sell more, save time, and build your competitive advantage.
Security and data privacy have been managed at the platform level since 2012.
Manufacturers like Ohmite, Hammond Manufacturing, TDK-Lambda, and YAGEO Group (formerly KEMET), along with distributors and suppliers across the channel, rely on the platform to keep their data accurate, their partners in sync, and their people focused on growth rather than reformatting.
