Growth strategy  /  Operations  /  Fractional leadership

LET’S GET TO
BUSINESS.

You've built something. Let's figure out what comes next, and get it moving.

I’m Matt Hogan. I help founders grow their businesses, build stronger teams, and take important work off their plate.

Tell me what you're working on

Experience across leading brands & retailers

Built through leadership roles, advisory and consulting engagements, major account ownership, and supplier and brand partnerships.

Where I can help

The next stage takes
more than more effort.

Find the growth.

Identify the revenue opportunities worth pursuing and what it will take to earn them.

  • New revenue streams across ecommerce, wholesale, and retail
  • Customer retention and lifecycle marketing
  • Product launches and merchandising opportunities
  • Competitive and partnership research

Make the business work.

Give your team the structure and visibility to make decisions and follow through.

  • Financial models and performance dashboards
  • Team structure, hiring plans, and clear ownership
  • Operating priorities and meeting cadence
  • Connected processes, systems, and practical AI

Get it into motion.

Senior leadership and hands-on execution for work that keeps getting pushed back.

  • Focused growth and operating sprints
  • Cross-functional initiative leadership
  • Fractional commercial and operating support
  • Launch plans, execution, and team handoffs

How I Work

Progressive leadership.
Practical action.

  • Systems Thinker

    Connect the parts. See the whole.

  • Builder

    Turn ideas into working solutions.

  • Founder Partner

    Listen closely. Challenge thoughtfully.

  • Versatile Operator

    Move across functions. Keep work moving.

  • Ownership Mindset

    Take responsibility. Follow through.

AI + operating experience

New capabilities.
Experienced judgment.

AI opens up new ways to research, analyze and build. Knowing what to ask, what to connect and what to do with the answer is where operating experience earns its place.

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YOUR BUSINESS
Operator
judgment
AI
capability
Clearer decisions. Working systems. ↗
Built through experience

I’ve owned the number.
And the work behind it.

Island Creek Oysters / Commercial & operating leadership
500%+

Sustained DTC growth versus pre-COVID levels.

Growth across the whole business.

Owned the DTC P&L and led ecommerce, sales, marketing, customer experience and fulfillment. As Chief of Staff, led company-wide planning and accountability.

Led the B2B sales team and revenue portfolio serving Michelin-starred restaurants, hospitality groups and specialty food retailers.

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Ecommerce & retail
Eight-figure P&Ls

Multiple businesses. A consistent record of growth.

Full ownership. From strategy through execution.

Led strategy, budgets, teams, and operations across ecommerce, physical retail, and major marketplaces. Delivered growth across every P&L I’ve owned, including 400% growth over five years.

Wayfair / AllModern · Brand building & operations

Many hats.
One business to build.

Among Wayfair’s first 50 employees and a founding-team member of AllModern. Built across brand partnerships, category ownership, international expansion and delivery innovation.

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business stuck?

Five questions to help you spot the friction, focus your effort and decide what to tackle first.

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Inside the work

What it looks like
to work with me.

Explore the assessments, plans, dashboards and revenue models we can build around your business.

Illustrative samples with fictional data. Actual deliverables are tailored to each engagement.

The person doing the work
Matt Hogan

A commercial leader.
An operator at heart.

I’m Matt Hogan, a Boston-based business leader with more than 20 years across ecommerce, sales, marketing, operations, and general management.

My work spans consumer brands, manufacturing, retail and hospitality, from early-stage building to leading established teams.

I lead with curiosity, challenge familiar assumptions and help teams turn new ideas into better ways of working. By connecting people, economics and emerging technology, I help growing businesses move ahead of the curve.

MBA, Boston University Questrom School of Business
BA, Mathematics · Computer Science · University of New Hampshire
Boston Latin School

Boston-based / Retail, CPG & hospitality

Growth and operations consulting.
Built around your business.

Work directly with Matt Hogan on growth strategy, ecommerce, business operations and fractional leadership. Start with a defined project or ongoing support that connects the plan to the people, numbers and work behind it.

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Let's start with your business.

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30-minute consultation.

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You’re human.
Put something good on.

For the drive home, a walk, or finally closing the laptop. A founders playlist with a little Boston college radio, new wave, early alternative, and room to dance.

You can have a lot on your plate and still have excellent taste in music.

Founder’s Wry Journey Through Business Woes

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