Matt Schweickert

CFO & COO/Managing Partner

2023 - Current

Greyspace is a boutique strategy consulting and private equity services firm operating within the New Health Economy. Through decades of industry experience operating and advising businesses, the Greyspace team have been at the forefront of consumers taking a more proactive and personal approach to their personal health and wellness. Numerous traditional industries are converging to address this theme, with personal care, healthcare and wellness at the nexus. Greyspace believes that by identifying businesses that exhibit these characteristics the firm can maximize long-term customer value and accelerate growth and profitability in the most attractive parts of the category. The Greyspace team ‘simplifies strategy and accelerates execution’. Our proprietary ecosystem and unique approach to strategy, business intelligence and access to talent dramatically improves the probability of success for business.

Venture Advisor

2021

Board Member

2024

Founded in 2012, BigRentz is the premier construction equipment rental provider with a network of more than 6,000 equipment partners throughout the USA, giving renters access to 14,000 equipment yards through their platform. The company’s digital platform has helped redefine the rental sector, simplifying equipment procurement and project management, providing customers access to real-time data and reporting, and making costs and budgets easy to track across multiple projects.

Advisor

2023

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer

2023 - 2024

Advisor

2023 - 2024

Chief Financial Officer

2021 - 2023

Acquired by Ashley Furniture. Served as Chief Financial Officer responsible for Finance, Accounting, Investor Relations, Legal, Corporate Development/M&A, Tax, Treasury and Capital Markets. Resident is a house of direct-to-consumer brands in the home goods space and the largest global e-commerce bed/bedding retailer. Resident owns and operates multiple products catering to different consumer furnishing needs including the award-winning Nectar, DreamCloud, Awara, Level Sleep, Cloverlane and Siena offerings. Resident is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City, London, Tel Aviv and Jeffersonville, IN. At the heart of Resident is the belief in building teams with the best talent possible (no matter where they reside) and the Company has been recognized as one of the best remote places to work in the United States. At Resident, we are relentless in our passion to provide our customers with better choices when it comes to everyday home products. From mattresses to bedding, rugs and furniture, each of our brands has unparalleled standards for quality, style, and value. We make it effortless to find what you want for your home, whenever you want it...and we offer the best trial periods and warranties because we believe in our products and giving the consumer as much power as possible. As we continue to grow, we want Resident to be your favorite place to feel at home - whether you're shopping with us or working with us

Chief Business Officer

2020 - 2021

Chief Strategy Officer; Functional CFO - Technology; Chief Product & User Experience Officer

2016 - 2020

Concurrently served as Chief Strategy Officer, Head of Technology Finance & Strategy and Chief Enterprise Product & User Experience Officer - reporting to the Chairman & CEO. Helped lead strategy and technology transformation for one of the world’s largest and most iconic retailers Execution of the strategic plan generated industry-best revenue growth from $78B in FY14 to $132B in FY20, record profitability, ROIC of >45% and market capitalization growth of over $200B As Chief Strategy Officer, I helped formulate overall corporate strategy including organic and inorganic initiatives, M&A, enterprise partnerships and corporate venture capital. As Chief Financial Officer of Technology, I was responsible for strategic planning, financial reporting & analysis for Home Depot's $3B dollar technology P&L As Chief Product & Experience Officer, responsible for the agile teams focused on executing top enterprise priorities Implemented a revised planning process which led to a dramatic increase in organizational alignment, collaboration and capital efficiency. Revised planning efforts resulted in an incremental $11B investment program to create a retail experience able to quickly adapt to customer’s rapidly-changing expectations Revamped the 7,000-person Technology organization’s financial governance and management providing greater visibility and strategic alignment while reducing $100M in non-prioritized spend Drove focus on longer-term emerging technology adoption including active pilots/deployment of solutions utilizing robotics & automation, distributed databases and AI/ML Led more than $10B of acquisitions focused on prioritized category expansion and capability enhancement including: Interline Brands, Compact Power, Askuity, The Company Store and HD Supply Regularly communicated with the Board and largest institutional shareholders regarding strategy, technology investments and retail trends Member of the Board's Finance Committee and Disclosure Committee

Vice President, Strategic Business Development

2015 - 2016

Board Observer

2019 - 2020

Artificial Intelligence for the Physical World Deep North lets shopping malls, grocery stores and the brick-and-mortar retail stores reclaim the consumer traffic from the digital world. We provide commercial environments with a unique combination of bleeding-edge analytical technologies, based upon artificial intelligence, and visual analytics integrated with deep learning algorithms.