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.
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.
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.
Where does the money come from? What does it take to grow? I work with founders to connect revenue streams, costs and new opportunities in one practical business model.
Illustrative samples with fictional data. Actual deliverables are tailored to each engagement.
Working together
A clear scope. Real momentum.
A focused project or ongoing fractional leadership, built around the work your business needs.
We agree on priorities, outputs, and a weekly or project fee before getting started.
Get to the actual problem.
Review the business, the numbers and what’s getting in the way.
Decide what deserves attention.
Agree on priorities, owners and what a useful outcome looks like.
Lead the work.
Move the work forward and equip your team to sustain it, with a clear handoff or ongoing support.
The person doing the work
MH.
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.
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.