Matt Marolda

Matthew Marolda currently serves as Executive Partner at Shore Capital, a lower middle-market private equity firm focused on partnering with companies with $1-10 million of EBITDA.

 

Previously, Matt served concurrently as Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Acrisure, a financial services firm with 20,000 employees and valued at over $30 billion. He led the company’s innovation strategy, built and deployed proprietary AI and data capabilities, oversaw digital sales and service, and directed global marketing.

 

Before Acrisure, Matt was an executive leader at Tulco Holdings, where he worked directly with portfolio companies to create and deploy AI-driven tools to accelerate marketing efficiency, top-line growth, and customer retention. His work included FIGS, which went public in 2021, as well as Acrisure.

 

Earlier, Matt founded and led Legendary Entertainment’s AI division as Chief Analytics Officer and was a member of the senior executive team that sold Legendary in 2016. In 2018, he led the sale of his division to Warner Bros., where he became President of Applied Analytics.

 

Matt began his career by founding StratBridge, where he built and sold two businesses serving professional sports: a “moneyball” player analytics platform and a dynamic pricing and revenue platform.

 

Matt earned an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth, where he won the Adams Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship, and graduated with honors from Bowdoin College.