Optimize the Momentum

Matt is the Global Head and Chief Executive Officer of Revantage.  Matt joined Blackstone’s real estate portfolio companies to manage and lead Revantage, following a track-record of successful global executive leadership positions. Throughout his career, Matt has built a reputation for his ability to run large-scale businesses, transform companies and culture, develop and assemble high performing talent, and drive innovation through technology.

Matt has instilled within Revantage the principle to which he credits his own success: the relentless pursuit of better. By constantly striving to optimize his performance and empowering his teams to do the same, he has helped companies overcome challenges and push beyond what others assumed was possible. Matt believes that organizational excellence occurs once you’ve established and executed results-driven strategies and creates a culture that aligns every teammate with the same values and mission.

Matt has spent his career developing teams that outperform financial and other performance objectives. He has a track record for leading transformative change and establishing cultures of continuous improvement. He is an authentic leader who invests heavily in recruiting, developing, and retaining high performing and diverse teams.

Matt is currently leading a significant hiring effort in the global expansion of Revantage, as well as a strategic shift to better equip Blackstone’s real estate portfolio companies with talent, processes, and technology. Matt is taking this opportunity to create a new model for shared services in a way that has never been done before, with a heavy focus on providing value creation through data and analytics, and scalability through emerging technologies.

Nicole Grimaldi serves as CFO of Revantage, a leading global corporate services provider to Blackstone and its real estate portfolio companies. As a senior executive of the organization, she helps drive the strategic direction of Revantage, overseeing financial strategy, managing financial operations, and providing financial reporting and portfolio management to Blackstone and its real estate portfolio companies.

Nicole brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in finance and the commercial real estate industry. Before joining Revantage as CFO in 2019, she was Senior Vice President of Capital Markets and Corporate Finance at InvenTrust Properties, where she led a team responsible for capital allocation, investment decisions and business strategy. Prior to InvenTrust, Nicole held senior leadership positions at the Private Bank, RREEF and LaSalle Bank. She is involved in several industry organizations, a Goldie Mentor and serves as the Executive Sponsor of Revantage Women in Network (WIN).

Nicole, with the finance team, plays a critical role in the continued evolution and growth of Revantage. She continues to rely on her strong financial acumen and keen judgement to make the critical decisions necessary to further position Revantage, Blackstone and its real estate portfolio companies as leaders in the industry.

Lynn is a member of the executive leadership team, heading a global risk management team as the Chief Risk Officer at Revantage. She will optimize insurance and operational risk management strategy across Blackstone’s real estate portfolio, continuing and accelerating the transformation of Revantage’s real estate insurance program to create an exemplary cost and coverage structure supported by a data-driven approach. She places strong emphasis on meeting stakeholder needs and ensuring they have visibility on insurance strategy.

Lynn has spent more than 30 years in corporate risk management, insurance solutions, capital markets and finance, operations and business transformation. She is known as a lateral thinker, an energetic problem solver, and a caring leader of high-performing teams. Before joining Revantage, Lynn was SVP, Global Risk Management, Procurement and Operations Support at the Avis Budget Group. She has previously held leadership roles in the bond insurance industry and began her career in investment banking.

Lynn is excited about leveraging Revantage’s resources and Blackstone’s scale in leading optimization of the largest insurance program on the globe. Given the magnitude of insurance costs and the implications of risk management for asset performance, successfully optimizing a centralized insurance program is vital to Revantage’s success in providing best-in-class shared services to Blackstone Real Estate portfolio companies. Lynn brings the full range of her insurance, financial, operations and business transformation experience to supporting Revantage, meeting risk management objectives, and enhancing the capabilities of her team.

Haley is Chief Information Officer, driving Revantage’s strategy and leading cross-company initiatives and global programs.

Haley is an energetic leader with a passion for problem-solving, creativity, and efficiency. She brings a proactive mindset, a mature sense of ownership, and intense determination to each objective.

She and her teams promote the company’s culture of customer service and execution. They are focused on delivering value across multiple areas, including strategic planning and analytics, process improvement and change management, and communications.

The broad scope of Haley’s role is commensurate with her expertise in large-scale transformational projects, honed over more than a decade on trading floors in the financial services industry. Before joining Revantage in April of 2019, she was Global Head of Electronic Trading Supervision at an International Investment bank in New York City.

Greg is the Chief Human Resources Officer of Revantage. In his role, Greg oversees the entire People & Culture organization, including Human Resources (e.g. Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Learning & Development, Operations and Rewards & Recognition), Culture & Experience, and provides strategic guidance to Blackstone real estate portfolio companies.

Greg brings 20 years of leadership experience in human resources, talent acquisition, and development, including his most recent role as SVP, Executive Talent & Development for Revantage. In this role he led Revantage’s global talent acquisition strategy to recruit and retain a diverse, high performing executive talent pool supporting Revantage’s growing business globally. He helped develop an external pipeline of executive level talent, identifying the leaders for Revantage and its Portfolio Companies to empower successes in tomorrow’s markets and businesses.

Before joining Revantage, Greg was Vice President of Global Executive Talent acquisition & North America Marketing Talent Acquisition for PepsiCo. Prior to his time at PepsiCo, Greg spent nearly seven years at Pfizer within various talent management and acquisition leadership roles, culminating in his position as Senior Director of Global Executive Recruitment, Sourcing and North America Talent Acquisition Lead.

Greg values the unique experiences and backgrounds everyone brings to the team, and wants all who join Revantage to reach their full potential. He is committed to recruiting and retaining top talent from a range of industries, backgrounds and world views because he believes different perspectives fuel the best ideas. Harnessing fresh thinking not only supports Revantage’s ability to provide the best solutions to clients every day, it also accelerates innovation, ultimately, driving global business success.

Heather Gleason is SVP, Head of Communications for Revantage. Heather provides strategic communications counsel and support – including media relations and issues management – across Blackstone’s real estate portfolio companies, working closely with Blackstone’s public affairs team to protect and enhance reputation. Heather also oversees corporate communications for Revantage, driving company culture and engagement through internal and external channels, while helping to achieve business objectives.

Heather is a seasoned communications professional with 20 years of experience and a proven track record leading strategic, multi-platform programs that build brands and drive business. Before joining Revantage, she spent a decade at global food and beverage company, PepsiCo, most recently overseeing sustainability communications, with leadership roles also in global strategy & planning and corporate media relations. Prior to PepsiCo, Heather led corporate communications efforts for AMC Networks and has several years of agency experience at Lane PR and Goodman Media International, where she developed and executed integrated public relations programs across a wide range of industries, consistently demonstrating high-profile results for clients.

A passionate leader with a collaborative approach, Heather is part of the Revantage executive leadership team, applying her creative problem-solving skills and customer-centric mindset to further the strategic growth of Revantage and deliver value to its partners.