Jeffrey Matthews Receives MIA Migliore Award for Lifetime Achievement

Jeff Matthews (left) accepts the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from MIA president Tony Malisani.
Jeff Matthews (left) accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award from MIA president Tony Malisani

Jeffrey Matthews, owner of Trade International, Inc. of Atlanta, was been awarded the Migliore Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Marble Institute of America (MIA), the association’s highest honor. It was presented at MIA’s annual awards luncheon at StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas in Las Vegas on January 22, 2015. Matthews, a native of Washington, D.C., has been in the stone industry since the early 1970’s, amassing more than four decades of experience in sales, marketing consulting and service to the industry and the MIA. He has visited more than 30 countries, 300 quarries and inspected more than 400 factories worldwide.
In 1986, at the age of 37 and after several years of service to the MIA as an officer and director, he was named the association’s youngest president. Over the years, he and other officers were instrumental in revising the Dimension Stone Design Manual (DSDM), producing the MIA Stone Color Book, and assisting the MIA with becoming a more relevant organization. Once off the board, his involvement with the MIA continued. Jeff assisted in authoring the early version of the Stone Selection & Stone Testing technical bulletin, as well as helping to complete version 6 of DSDM, after MIA technical director Vincent Migliore passed away. Today, Jeff Matthews is still consumed with learning and helping others do a better job in selling and producing better projects. He is currently working with other MIA volunteers on a new “Supplier to Buyer” stone manual which will debut in 2015.

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