Seize Advantage in a Downturn
In this episode of Master Minds, Sharon Matthews discusses how companies can be more resilient in the face of an impending economic downturn, and how the COVID-19 outbreak is unlike any previous crisis. She provides reasons why traditional crisis-response approaches will not be sufficient and why CEOs need to act now, and act aggressively.
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Vice Chair at Road Scholar
A native of Australia, Sharon Matthews currently serves as the vice chair of Avenu and an executive partner of Mill Point Capital. Additionally, she is the Vice Chair of Road Scholar, an experiential learning nonprofit based in Boston. Previously, Sharon served as the president and CEO of eLynx for over nine years, bringing 20+ years of executive experience in the tech industry to the role when she assumed office in February of 2007. Her work streams centered on further strengthening eLynx's market leadership position of providing secure electronic document communications services for the financial services industry in the most significant downturn since the great depression. After successfully overseeing the sale of eLynx to Black Knight Financial Services in the spring of 2016, Sharon has devoted her free time to serving as a senior executive consultant for technology-based companies. Concurrently, Sharon has leveraged her culinary expertise and passion for cooking to develop her most recent entrepreneurial venture, Culinary Capers. Sharon formerly held senior executive roles at Solectron Corporation, UCMS Inc., Unisys and Wang Laboratories. A dual Australian and U.S. citizen residing in Campbell, California, Sharon earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and politics from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She is also a graduate of the executive management program at Columbia University in New York.
