RESERVE STRATEGY AND EXECUTION SERVICES
Strategy capacity held in RESERVE until you need it.
20 years of experience across industry and consulting roles. Trained and proven inside world-class strategy houses - PwC's Strategy& and Accenture.BASED IN CALIFORNIA - SERVING GLOBALLY
MATT GENTILUCCI
SERVICE OVERVIEW
RESERVE Strategy & Execution Services gives c-suite leaders, corporate strategy, business teams and consulting firms a senior hand to call on - for the surge project, the leadership gap, or the workshop that needs an outside facilitator. No full-time headcount. Just ON-DEMAND capacity, embedded with your team from day one.--> Are you a Head of Strategy with a team that is at bandwidth and has key deliverables at risk?--> Are you a Partner / Director at a top-tier consulting firm who is unable to staff your newly sold project?--> Are you a CEO or COO who needs interim strategy or operations leadership due to vacancy or leave?Call Matt at RESERVE
SIX CORE SERVICES OFFERED
Leverage a highly portable skillset and set of playbooks across retail, fashion apparel, consumer products, travel / hospitality and telecom sectors.
PROJECT-BASED SUPPORT: Embedded, project-based support that plugs into your team during a crunch - e.g., customer segmentation analysis, process redesign, multi-year roadmap, business case, a board deck - without pulling a scarce FTE off its day job.
INTERIM LEADERSHIP SUPPORT: Serves as a fractional Director or VP of Strategy - running the function, not just contributing to it - while you search for a permanent hire or cover a leave.
WORKSHOP DESIGN & FACILITATION: Annual planning offsites, scenario planning, agentic AI opportunity sessions, portfolio prioritization - designed, facilitated, and synthesized into a decision document, not another meeting.
OPERATIONAL EXECUTION SUPPORT: Interim leadership focused on executing the strategy already decided - PMO leadership, implementation, training, education services, initiative tracking, cross-functional program management. True "boots on the ground" support.
TRANSFORMATION OFFICE LEADERSHIP: Standing up and running the transformation office itself for a large, multi-workstream program - governance cadence, workstream coordination, business case development & management, and executive reporting. The connective tissue that keeps a big program honest about scope, benefits, and timeline once several workstreams are moving at once.
AGENTIC AI TRANSFORMATION: Figuring out where agentic AI creates value and building the case to fund it. A capability taxonomy and spend baseline, opportunity identification workshops with business unit stakeholders, charters and benefit sizing for the highest value use cases, and a sequenced roadmap packaged into a decision grade business case. Formal program setup to manage a pipeline of agentic AI ideas.
*INQUIRE FOR DETAILS - PRICING STRUCTURE RANGES HOURLY, DAILY, FIXED-FEE, OR RETAINER
EVERY ENGAGEMENT RUNS THE SAME WAY: NO-NONSENSE, IN SYNC, REPEATABLE.
CAPABILITY & DELIVERABLE EXAMPLES
Selected capability and deliverable examples available through RESERVE
CAPABILITIES: Customer Strategy & Segmentation | Commercial / GTM & Service Strategy | Process & Operating Model Design / Implementation | Enterprise Cost Transformation | Agentic AI Transformation: Program Setup, Opportunity ID, Business Case & Roadmap | Change Management, Training & Education | Workshop Design & Facilitation | Retail & CPG Merchandising Strategy | IBP / S&OP / S&OE Design & Implementation | Global Omnichannel Capability Design | Technology Capability Mapping | Data Ontology Mapping | Annual Planning Facilitation
DELIVERABLES: OpEx / CapEx Business Cases / P&L Modeling | Performance & Margin Analyses (Customer, Category, Spend, Growth) | Multi-Year, Multi-Workstream Roadmaps | Process Design Artifacts (Levels 1–4) | Clickable Demos | Business Requirements Documents | Use Case Documentation | Stakeholder Interview Synthesis | Workshop Recap Documents | SteerCo and Board Meeting Presentations | Annual Planning Artifacts
*Non-exhaustive examples
PROVEN RESULTS - CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS
Selected results delivered across mid-size companies and Fortune 100 global clients
$10B+ National Softline Off-Price Retailer - redesigned target-setting, pre-season, and in-season merchandising processes end-to-end; shifted merchant time on assortment execution from 25% to 60-70% and cut data-wrangling time in half.
Global Watch Brand & Licensed-Brands Manufacturer - built a global S&OP / S&OE capability from scratch across planning and execution teams in US and Asia; lifted on-time-in-full delivery from under 50% to 90%+ and cut inventory liability ~25%.
$90B+ Telecom & Consumer Enterprise - architected an enterprise agentic AI transformation program; built a $1.5B+ CFO-approved value case and roadmap across 10 business units
$90B+ Telecom & Consumer Enterprise - designed a unified competitive intelligence platform from 40+ stakeholder interviews and 25 synthesized use cases; MVPs for the top 5 use cases built and tested in under 30 days.
$90B+ Telecom & Consumer Enterprise - designed and facilitated a series of enterprise agentic AI education & reinvention workshop sessions; generated a backlog of 300+ prioritized agentic AI ideas, ready for blueprinting into the next transformation phase.
Global Hospitality & Vacation-Ownership Company - redesigned tour-booking prioritization around customer propensity to buy; delivered $250M in incremental revenue, rolled out across all brands and sales channels.
Global Luxury Retail Brand - built the roadmap and investment case for a global omnichannel technology rollout (ERP, OMS, POS, WMS, SFDC), aligned up to the CTO; enabled 15%+ omnichannel growth.
$2B P&L Reinsurance Division of a Global Insurance & Risk Firm - led a 60-person, 6-workstream transformation office; sized $250M in savings plus a $900M technology investment case, delivering the savings and launching a new platform within 18 months.