Matt Laker Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

United States

Corporate Officer and leader of the Enterprise Communications, Philanthropy and Brand Marketing Team. Strategic advisor to the CEO and Executive Committee for long-term organizational planning; reporting to Jackson’s executive committee. Responsible for all CEO, Internal, Public & Crisis Communications, the Jackson brand, events and philanthropy teams, as well as the Jackson Charitable Foundation.C-Suite Advisory: Core member of the executive team who transformed Jackson into a standalone enterprise during the 2021 Prudential spinoff in the UK ($50M market cap). For three years, advised Jackson’s CEO and Steering Committee on all communication work streams and subsequent public listing activities on the NYSE which placed Jackson in the Fortune-500 and further cemented the company as the #1 market leader in the U.S. variable annuity market. Partnered with Investor Relations, the Corporate Secretary and others across the business to establish the strategy for and the implementation of all processes and procedures for quarterly earnings releases, proxy statements, annual reports, and ESG/Corporate Responsibility reports after Jackson went public.Brand Reframe: Executive committee and thought leader for Jackson's three-year, multi-million brand identity reframe in partnership with Prophet Consulting. Project included new brand promise and principles, marketing materials, performance management system, intranet and website update, verbal identity repositioning, and stakeholder messaging simplification.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Promoted from Assistant Vice President to Vice President in 2017, supported three consecutive CEOs, their respective core executive committees, and senior leadership teams on global high-impact, high-confidentiality, high-risk, and high-dollar multi-year projects and initiatives - consistently on time and under budget.Business Strategy & Divestiture: Led the cross functional strategic review that resulted in the $325 million asset sale divestiture of National Planning Holdings (NPH) to LPL Financial in 2017; shifting focus from the historical independent broker-dealer model towards an exclusive retirement products producer.Board Advisory: Executed all global and domestic board prep for all Jackson and Prudential plc board meetings and off-sites. Created all CEO board papers and monthly reports and participated in all board, management committee, executive committee meetings, as well as high-profile CEO meetings with industry CEOs, investment bankers, senators and members of Congress.

Farmington Hills Michigan

Responsible for the North American Competitive Intelligence, Corporate Business Development, Corporate Business Strategy, and Group Program Management activities. Member of the TD Auto Finance Capital Project Investment Committee that reviews, approves, and monitors all large-scale corporate initiatives, programs, and financial project investments.M&A Support: Led, in partnership with McKinsey, a major business strategy analysis and roadmap development after the $6.3B dollar acquisition of Chrysler Financial Services by TD Bank. Supported TD Auto Finance's CEO with the transition from a captive automotive financial services firm towards a lending organization with an increased focus on super-prime loans.Competitive Intelligence: Developed and implemented all industry and competitive intelligence activities of the Auto Finance group, including financial strategy and performance, strategic market positioning (including real time market share developments), operational analysis and benchmarking, as well as portfolio and credit strategies and performance (including delinquency and charge off trends) for key North American banks and captive automotive finance companies.

Executive position responsible for Strategy, Internal Consulting and high-profile Project Management activities.Divestiture & Financial Due Diligence: Integral part of the confidential 30 executives project insider team that orchestrated the $6.3 Billion Chrysler Financial Services sale to TD Bank, later rebranded TD Auto Finance. Supported the creation of all viability plans and balance sheet restructurings to effectively prepare the company for divestiture. Developed business case and recommendations to senior management. Org Design: Promoted into the confidential due diligence team as one of three Finance and Strategy experts in charge of the end to end integration of Chrysler Financial's 70-staff HR department into TD Bank Group following the sale.Program Leadership & Operational Efficiency: During the separation of Chrysler Financial Services from Chrysler motors, led the separation and set up of the full HR, Payroll, and Benefits Administration. Secured the budget, generated and executed vendor selection strategy, and led all external contract negotiations. Created and managed a cross-functional team of 80 employees and contractors. Completed the program 8 months ahead of its original 18 month timeline and below budget. Streamlined HR by 40% through targeted outsourcing and rebuilding of core HR processes and systems. Achieved significant cost savings after Chrysler Financial was sold to Cerberus Capital Management.

• Established credit policy, analysis, measurement, and reporting framework that ensured federal regulation compliance for all Bank asset types. • Directed the development and implementation of the credit policy for dealer real estate and retail consumer loan products. Policy delivered and approved by Bank Board of Directors.• Analyzed the dealer real estate loan portfolio and recommended and approved $800 million in assets for eventual purchase to the Bank. Ensured adequate risk tolerances, developed portfolio concentration reporting and outlined variance to policy and corrective action plans.• Executed executive review of credit product offerings including a new wholesale loan product. Outlined profitability forecasts, risk and process implications and operational risk for each offering.• Created Dealer Trouble identification and reporting process that highlighted potential exposure issues for all assets approved for De Novo transfer.

• Office of the Chairman of the Board of Management. Executed strategic assignments for global enterprise including project due diligence, process reengineering /optimization, business case generation and global project execution.• Directed projects and global business cases analysis. Projects included business resumption and Customer Service and Collections realignment and rite-sourcing strategy and implementation.• Generated operational and strategic updates to the Supervisory Board and external rating agencies.• Produced operational and strategic presentations (internal and external) for CEO and ensured accurate and timely reporting to the Board.• Management Associate Strategic Project Management / Internal Consultant. Executed cross functional consulting engagements. • Generated Point of Sale strategy pulling data input from dealers, subject matter experts and executive sponsors and benchmarked industry best practices.• Conducted strategic review and directed national roll-out of the Business Vehicle Finance product to 900 dealers and customers resulting loan portfolio growth of more than $5 billion over four years.

Mba, International Business

Bachelor Of Arts, Business German / Marketing