Matt Lockwood is a serial entrepreneur and investor with a background in digital marketing. Since 2004, he founded and successfully built multiple startups in the online retail space, led a turnaround of a failing online retail company, and has successfully invested in alternative assets. Through his private investment company, Resilient Capital, he discovered and researched investment opportunities which have returned an annualized performance of approximately 15% since inception in 2010. His investment focus has been in real estate, hard money loans, fix and flips, farmland, and medical liens.
During childhood, Matt Lockwood was an active member of the Boy Scouts (Troop 91 Prairie Village, Kansas) and obtained his Eagle Scout. Matt’s Eagle Scout Project focused on rehabilitating an economically depressed home in Kansas City, Missouri. The home's energy bills were bankrupting its occupant, and Matt did the hard work of rehabilitating windows and other conditions to make the home more energy efficient, and most importantly, affordable to heat in winter. Also during childhood, Matt was an active member of Country Club Christian Church in Kansas City Missouri. Through the Church, Matt was active in volunteering for Habitat for Humanity – participating in multiple mission trips to rehabilitate homes for the poor in the Kansas and Missouri areas, as well as in Texas. Also through the youth group, Matt went on several mission trips in Los Angeles to volunteer in soup kitchens.
During high school at Shawnee Mission East, Matt was a varsity tennis player and an honor roll student. Matt Lockwood Denver graduated in 1996. Following high school, Matt attended the University of Puget Sound and he held a position in the student government. After Matt’s freshman year of college, he volunteered as an instructor at the Wilderness Treatment Center in Marion, Montana for the summer. The Wilderness Treatment Center is a 60 day, in-patient chemical dependency addiction treatment facility for teens/young men between the ages o0f 14 and 24.
Matt Lockwood Colorado transferred to the University of Colorado at Boulder for his junior year in 1998. During Matt’s studies at CU Boulder, he took extensive coursework in both biology and computer science. Matt graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology in 2001, and he made the Dean’s List.
Matthew Lockwood Denver’s first job after college was with VioSoftware.com. One of Matt’s first research projects was analyzing a new website, Google, for potential marketing opportunities. Matt thrived at VioSoftware.com, where through various marketing strategies, he was given recognition for strongly contributing to doubling the annual company revenue from about $10 million to $20 million during the course of his employment.
In February 2004, Matthew Lockwood Colorado was recruited by DirectDeals.com, to become the E-commerce Marketing Director. Matt was part of a team that orchestrated a highly successful turnaround of DirectDeals.com, which was losing money every month, to profitability. This was accomplished by a redesign of the company’s website and implementing analytics software, Web Trends, among other innovations. In January 2005, Matt co-founded RoyalDiscount.com. Matt Lockwood Denver was the E-commerce Marketing Director, and was instrumental in driving traffic to Royal Discount's site. At Royal, he identified, developed, and executed numerous successful marketing campaigns such as Bizrate.com, Pricewatch.com, Yahoo Shopping, Nextag.com, Pricegrabber.com, Cnet.com, Shopping.com and Froogle.com (later Google Shopping).
Matt Lockwood Colorado also focused his efforts on organic search optimization techniques, and Royal quickly surpassed many of its competitors in the marketplace. Royal received industry recognition in 2006 when it was ranked #348 by Internet Retailer magazine's Top 500 Internet Retailers. Royal went on to achieve $19,590,206 in revenue in 2007, had 130,000 site visits per month, and was valued at $4.9 million by Hein & Associates LLP. Matthew Lockwood Denver left Royal in 2010 after he received a buyout of his shares, and founded Resilient Capital. In addition to managing his investments for Resilient Capital, Matt Lockwood has served as a Digital Marketing Consultant at FiveFifty, a Digital Marketing Agency located in Denver, CO. At FiveFifty, Matt focused on SEO and paid search, with a particular emphasis on keyword research.
Currently, Matt Lockwood spends his time serving as a consultant for underperforming Digital Marketing campaigns, conducting due diligence for numerous business acquisitions and doing market research for a real estate investment company in the self-storage industry. Matt Lockwood is a member of Entrepreneurs Organization, a non-profit organization of business owners that is affiliated with the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). Matt has been a member for over 7 years. Since 2005, Matthew Lockwood Colorado has been a longtime contributor to various charities. These charities include Outreach Alaska, Service League of San Mateo, Tennyson Center for Children, The Dumb Friends League, and the Boys and Girls Club.