Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods, was recently quoted in Retail TouchPoints on his vision for retail in a post-coronavirus world. He emphasized the importance of sustainability and D&I moving forward stating, “Retailers can’t afford to not be thinking about sustainability, now and into the distant future. If their business models aren’t transformed around sustainability, they themselves will find it hard to survive” and “I think the wave of Gen Z’s coming into the workforce will help set expectations for diversity and inclusion. As well as being digitally native, I see them as being inclusionary from the get-go.”

Matt emphasizes the importance of incorporating these as standard practices in business models in order to ensure success.

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Matt Katz serves as a Managing Partner and heads the Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods and Private Equity practices at SSA & Company