Matthew Gravelle

Matthew Gravelle has over 20 years of experience integrating finance and accounting departments from pure numbers toward an operational and strategic model. He has been successful in business transformations through his ability and willingness to collaborate with all functions within a business, think strategically, display strong leadership instincts, and exhibit solid interpersonal skills. He believes the future of finance is about expanding beyond the historical data and analysis to providing real-time, actionable insights that are valuable across all parts of a business.

Matt has deep experience across a number of strategic finance functions (specifically FP&A, financial planning, business partnering, strategic decision support, and growth analysis) in both well-developed finance organizations and private equity-backed organizations that are moving from infancy to mature stages. He has stood up finance departments, overhauled people and systems, and redesigned what good reporting and analysis can be. He also has expertise in strategic business support in the areas of cost optimization, revenue management, budget and long-range plan development, developing KPIs, value creation, and operational finance.

Throughout his career, Matt has worked with executive leadership teams to ensure that finance has a presence across all functions of an organization to make better decisions. Examples of these are when he worked on relocating customer services centers from three international sites to one centralized location, converted the majority of office-based setting outpatient centers to ambulatory surgical centers to recapture reimbursement loss from a significant CMS decision, and reimagined a company’s value proposition by shifting away from a historically safe low margin vertical to a higher margin vertical that had more competitors and barriers to entry. Matt has helped businesses evaluate risks and rewards as well as understand which risks are worth taking and how they can be mitigated.

Prior to joining Stout, Matt held several senior finance positions spanning the industries of government contracting, financial services, publishing, and data analytics. Matt spent the past 10 years focused on the multisite healthcare industry: first at Azura Vascular Care (a division of Fresenius) and then two CFO stints with private equity-backed companies. Matt began his career at Lockheed Martin, where he completed their Financial Leadership Development Program.