Matt Collins

Matt is the chief commercial operations officer for Calix. The Calix commercial operations team is responsible for supply chain operations, demand management, commercial strategy and analytics, field operations, and global process transformation. Matt also leads the Calix go-to-market team which is responsible for corporate, field, and product marketing, as well as partner operations and business development.

Over the course of his career, Matt has built and led marketing and strategy teams at Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), IBM, McKinsey, and Merck. At D&B Matt was SVP of global marketing and go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining D&B, he spent over a decade at IBM in senior marketing and strategy roles across IBM’s software, hardware and services businesses. While at IBM Matt also led several cross-company “Smarter Planet” growth initiatives and helped build the chief analytics officer function. While at McKinsey, he worked with many of the firm’s leading global clients to help them transform their go-to-market and operations strategies.

Matt received his MBA from Harvard University and has a B.A. from Dartmouth College.