Matt Howitt Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Mindful is my act.What is Mindful? Per my many emails, texts and DMs, everyone seems to want to know. Gotta give the people what they want!Mindful exists to serve entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial people. We help these incredible people make moves -- buy, sell, invest, raise, grow, whatever! We are a mix of private equity and real estate asset manager, with some merchant banking and management consulting sprinkled in.We are the culmination of my 25+ years of experience working in, managing and leading companies big and small, in all sorts of models, markets and economic climates.We are in active conversations with entrepreneurs and investors 365 days a year -- really! Reach out if you are one or the other or (like most of us) both. We want to help you make moves.Now I've replaced my short tease with a longer one. There is still a lot more to share. Coming soon!

Austin, Tx, Us

Profound Commerce is a brand holding company that profitably operates and grows consumer brands. I founded the company in August 2018, raised over $50mm in institutional capital, acquired 15 e-commerce businesses and hired 70 people globally. We sold Profound Commerce to The Ambr Group in February 2024.

Austin, Texas, Us

Convey is a software company that built a supply chain/final mile platform for retailers. I ran Product and UX, and spent lots of time on the road with Chris Richter and Rob Taylor trying to figure out what we were going to be when we grew up. Convey was acquired by project44 in September 2021.

Austin, Tx, Us

Transitioned from Eng to Product in spring 2015 to finally get to the "business side" after 18 years as a professional technologist. RetailMeNot went private again a year after I left, acquired by Harland Clarke. Subsequently RMN was acquired by J2 Global, which split in two and renamed itself Ziff Davis. I was long gone when all of that happened.

Austin, Tx, Us

Promoted to SVP from VP in January 2013. I was the head of engineering when RMN went public in July 2013.

Austin, Tx, Us

I joined RetailMeNot (then Whale Shark Media) as VP of Engineering shortly after it had completed its acquisition of RetailMeNot.com but before it had raised its growth equity round. I was hired to significantly up level the talent, team size and organization of the Engineering team.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

At IBM by way of its acquisition of Lombardi, I was one of three people who drove the effort to revamp the BPM development team with the explicit goal of turning it into a group that could deliver great results, i.e. products that had coherent value propositions, created real business value, were usable and actually worked.In concert with a small, hand-picked team of heritage IBMers and Lombardos, I completely revamped the group's governance, processes and tooling. Through high standards and a focus on "real" results (e.g. shipping product, revenue growth, profitability, customer acquisition, customer satisfaction), I also dramatically impacted the culture. On the human front, I worked hard to recognize and reward top performers, weed out bad people and optimize the human resources of a 450-person software development organization.The result of this effort was two-fold: a dramatically more capable organization and IBM Business Process Manager, the leading product in the BPM market. IBM BPM marries the ease-of-use and business-user-centric approach of Lombardi with the hard core transaction processing capabilities and scale of IBM. IBM BPM is now one of the fastest growing products in the IBM Software portfolio, growing at more than 25% per year off a multi-hundred million dollar revenue base. In the words of one heritage IBMer, cribbing from Lou Gerstner, I made "the elephant dance" in a way that he had never seen in his 20-year career at IBM. It definitely was a team effort, but I was one of a few people who made it happen.

Austin, Texas, Us

I was the executive responsible for the Product Engineering group at Lombardi. I was responsible for building and delivering to the market our products and services, including Lombardi Teamworks and Lombardi Blueprint. I had responsibility for the processes Lombardi used to build software as well as the people who made it happen.In my role as a Lombardi executive, I also oversaw other groups and several company-wide initiatives: Lombardi Customer Support, Account Oversight & Escalation, Industry Recruiting for technical hires, College Recruiting for technical hires.Lombardi was acquired by IBM in January 2010, and I joined IBM as part of the acquisition.

Austin, Texas, Us

As director of engineering, I scaled the organization from 10 people in the U.S. and 4 people in Ukraine to 22 people in the U.S. and 20 in Ukraine. I re-engineered the organization to be maniacally focused on execution and to be a place where great engineers wanted to work. I was promoted out of this position to Vice President, Product Engineering.

I consulted for telecommunications and financial services industries on technology, organizational design and development and recruiting.

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I am the founding Vice President, Engineering at MessageOne. I was the first technical employee of the company. I hired the entire original technical team, and oversaw the design, development and release of MessageOne's first two products: MessageView and Emergency Messaging System (EMS). MessageOne was one of the first enterprise SaaS companies, and one of the first SaaS vendors witth a fully multi-tenant system.MessageOne was acquired by Dell in February 2008.

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I ran Engineering for pcOrder (the original and most successful Trilogy spin-off) across three different lines of business: Enterprise Software, Content and Online Services. I had responsibility for the engineering program for all of these groups, and I oversaw the development of the organization, the processes and tools from soup-to-nuts. In my role, I topgraded and scaled the team from 5 people to 50.pcOrder went public in February 1999.

Austin, Tx, Us

I joined Trilogy to be part of its legendary Trilogy University (TU) program and to follow my entrepreneurial dreams.

Ab, Economics

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