A Specialty Installation Company Ten Years in the Making Gets Its Moment
Matt Shinton Named Partner and VP of Field Operations as Ten10 Building Technologies Enters a New Phase of Growth
Matt Shinton and Marty Lobaugh
LANCASTER, PA — Ten10 Building Technologies, a specialty commercial installation company, has named Matt Shinton as Partner and VP of Field Operations in response to increasing demand for sophisticated smart building systems and significant growth in the scale and complexity of Ten10’s project portfolio. The appointment marks the first dedicated leadership investment in Ten10 since its founding in 2014 and signals a new phase of intentional growth for a company that has spent a decade building a significant track record across the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond.
Ten10 specializes in the technology systems that modern commercial buildings require — smart access control, acoustic sound masking, security cameras, AV infrastructure, and low-voltage work — and has built a significant track record across the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond over the last decade. What sets the company apart is its fluency in two distinct but related worlds: the technology integration expertise to design and install complex systems, coupled with the construction coordination experience to execute them in active, real-world building environments.
It’s a combination that’s rare in the trades and increasingly in demand as buildings grow more sophisticated.
Evolving With Industry Needs
Founded in 2014 by Dan Nguyen and Marty Lobaugh, Ten10 operates alongside Stoner Bunting Advertising under common ownership. The company has grown over the last decade from a small-office technology service provider into a specialty installer working on projects of significant scale — from apartment complexes and mixed-use commercial spaces to government facilities and institutional campuses.
Today, Ten10 is qualified to work in environments requiring government security clearance and holds GSA credentials and OSHA certifications — a bar that has opened doors to institutional and government work that few specialty installers can access.
Credentials and experience like this are evident in the company’s reputation with one of its most active clients, a community financial institution expanding rapidly across the region, which found Ten10 specifically because no other contractor could handle the range and complexity that their projects required. With approximately 20 locations still in the pipeline, that relationship shows no signs of slowing down.
Ten10’s portfolio also includes work at Children’s National Hospital and Greenpeace headquarters in Washington, D.C.; the DC Energy building at the Washington Navy Yard; and the National Institutes of Health Bethesda campus. In summer 2026, Ten10 will begin work on a major Philadelphia university campus installation.
A New Phase of Leadership & Growth
Shinton brings decades of commercial construction experience to the role, having worked his way through every level of the industry — from laborer and carpenter to foreman, superintendent, and ultimately preconstruction and estimating. He understands how a building comes together from the ground up, and he understands what the people doing that work actually need. He is not new to the industry Ten10 serves. He is, in many ways, the client Ten10 has always worked alongside.
“Ten10 has a strong foundation and a real track record. That’s what we’re building on,” said Matt Shinton, Partner and VP of Field Operations. “After decades in commercial construction, you learn where the gaps are — the specialty work that needs to get done and nobody can find the right people for. We’re in a position to fill some of those gaps in a way that makes us even more valuable to the clients we’re already serving. The goal is simple: more services, more geography, more guys in trucks getting it done.”
Marty Lobaugh, Lead Installer and Partner, agrees. “I’ve been doing this work for a long time, and I’ve always believed in what we were building — even when it was just me and a job to get done,” said Lobaugh. “To have Matt stepping in, and to see Ten10 getting the attention and resources to really grow, it’s exciting. We’ve got the experience, we’ve got the relationships, and now we’ve got the team to take it somewhere. I can’t wait to see what we do next.”
A Strategy Set for Success
Shinton’s appointment and Ten10’s strategic shift are part of a larger transition following the recent ownership change at Stoner Bunting Advertising. Cheryl Shinton, who spent nearly a decade in senior leadership at Stoner Bunting before assuming ownership, recently became President & CEO and Owner of both Stoner Bunting Advertising and Ten10 Building Technologies.
Under new ownership, Ten10 is positioned to grow both its service offerings and its geographic footprint — following client relationships and project opportunities wherever they lead, with a long-term vision of scaling the team and capacity to match the demand.
“Ten10 has earned its reputation one project at a time, and that foundation is exactly what makes this moment exciting,” said Cheryl Shinton, Owner and President & CEO of Ten10 Building Technologies and Stoner Bunting Advertising. “Matt and Marty together bring a depth of experience and a shared commitment to doing the work right. And with Stoner Bunting’s decades of experience marketing commercial building products, we understand this industry from both sides — in the field and in the market. We’re building something here that genuinely needs to exist.”
Ten10 Building Technologies serves commercial and institutional clients across Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and follows projects nationally based on client relationships and project scope.
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About Ten10 Building Technologies
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Ten10 Building Technologies specializes in commercial building systems and specialty installation — including smart access control, acoustic sound masking, security camera systems, AV infrastructure, and low voltage work. The company serves contractors, property managers, developers, and facility teams across the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond, bringing together technology integration expertise and commercial construction fluency to deliver reliable results in the field. More information is available at ten10technologies.com.
About Stoner Bunting Advertising
Founded in 1984, Stoner Bunting Advertising is a Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based B2B marketing agency that has spent more than 40 years helping complex, technical brands build market presence and drive growth. The agency serves clients across the U.S. and internationally. More information is available at stonerbunting.com.
The open office plan has companies getting creative with how they keep the noise down.
Some use headphones to combat the noise in an open office plan, while other companies are turning to different technologies to help diffuse the noise. Either way, it’s not difficult to find stats on how “The lack of of sound privacy is often cited as the biggest complaint when it comes to employee morale”. Open office implementation has been around long enough now that the shine has worn off and many employees are not a fan.
Additional construction to a space to add sound buffering materials may not be feasible for everyone who has implemented the open office concept, or is having general noise issues with their business space. While noise cancelling headphones are great, another option for offices is transformable spaces. These spaces have movable materials that allow for a smaller, quieter meeting space to be created and unfolded when not being used.
Another interesting option is sound diffusing in the office space itself. For example, Cambridge Sound Management “has developed sound masking technology that doesn’t cancel the noise (like a noise-cancellation headset), but rather diffuses it, so that the human ear doesn’t focus on another person’s voice.” (Shut up, shut up, shut up! How gadgets and tech are reducing open office noise). In fact, this type of sound masking “makes a building seem quieter by raising the ambient noise level of an environment and making speech noise less intelligible and therefore less distracting.” and Cambridge Sound Management’s technology has options for doing this through direct, indirect, or a fusion of both. (PoE Fusion Sound Masking Technology)
Whichever way works best, decreasing the noise and keeping employees happy is high on many company’s to do list!
How and Why of Soundmasking an Office
It’s easy to take a good guess from the name, but just what is sound masking? Simply described, it’s “the process of adding background sound through speakers installed in the ceiling or strategically placed acoustical fabrics to reduce noise distractions, protect speech privacy, and increase employee comfort and satisfaction in an office setting.” (Would your office benefit from Sound Masking?)
Not to be confused with sound cancelling, sound masking “systems utilize a neutral sound spectrum, with no discernible pitch or salient tone-color. This is provided by “pink noise” which is a broad-band sound with equal energy per proportional division of frequency (e.g. equal energy per octave). Not calling attention to itself, sound masking systems also entail a wide dispersion of sound for spatial uniformity so there are no hot spots or nulls discernible as someone walks across the space.” (Corporate Environments and Sound Masking)
How is sound masking different from white noise?
“White noise meshes 20 and 20,000 Hz frequencies together all at the same time with equal intensities… It’s like the fuzzy, static sound a TV or radio produces when a signal is not coming in clearly, blurring into a “shushing” noise.” Also, “white noise is localized which means the source of the sound is easily distinguishable, like you would be able to point to a radio that is turned on and playing without great reception.” (Benefits of Sound Masking and White Noise)
So, why is sound masking such a hot topic? Why would an office need it?
“The modern office space has a problem with speech privacy. This is a concern across all workplaces including corporate, education, healthcare, government and law, financial services, and hospitality… Sound masking is a key tool that can help business owners solve the speech privacy problem. Sound masking typically reduces the area where speech is intelligible and distracting from upwards of 50 feet to around 15 feet, depending on the product installed.”
And to put some numbers to it… “A 2014 study by Steelcase/lpsos found that employees lost as much as 86 minutes per day due to noise distractions.” (Would your office benefit from Sound Masking?)
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