Behind Price Strategic Consulting

Price Strategic Consulting was started by Matthew Price in 2019. Matthew was born and raised in Austin, Texas. In 2006, he graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas where he received a degree in Finance.  Early in his career, Matthew worked for a series of large public corporations alongside many C-level executives, primarily in the comsumer products and logistics industries, In 2013, Matthew graduated from the University of Florida where he earned a Masters in Business Administration, and soon after returned to Austin where he ran FP&A for a burgeoning start-up, providing interim guidance of Finance overall in between two organizational leaders. 

Matthew entered the world of financial consulting  after leaving a role with an online marketplace up-start following the successful sale to a large private equity group in early 2018, totalling over $300MM. That transaction included the simultaneous purchase of several sister companies within the same industry, as well as follow-on purchases later in that year, and allowed for great visibility and experince with an aquisition of significant size and complexity from the inside. While evaluating his next career opportunity, a former boss reached out with a need for a consultant who could construct a series of models to both meet the needs of a large, complex organization serving a multiple users, as well as be scalable for future growth in size andfunctionality (all as a result of being acquired by Amazon about a year prior).

Realizing that he might have a good mix of best practice knowledge acquired from finance organizations within some of the largest companies in the world, as well as practical application experience from small-mid size companies (especially those focused on value maximization and a need to focus on raising capital and/or other transactional events), Matthew decided to embark on a new career route as a self-directed consultant. This lead to a series of projects across an ever-expanding range of clients and industries in the years since. These range from providing financial support for a client during a $100mm debt financing, to representing a number of clients with varrying levels of analytical support for their investments into smaller private entities. Client industries have ranged from consumer goods to real estate to SaaS businesses & other recurring revenue business structures. He's also provided fractional financial leadership and other strategic operational help to companies big enough to need professional financial support and insights, but just shy of having the resources to hire that support in the form of full-time employees.

In his free time, Matthew enjoys spending time with his wife, Katie, and their two children, William and Ellie. He is lucky enough to serve on the Board of Directors for the Rise School of Austin- a local non-profit institution that provides high-quality early childhood education to children of all abilities in an inclusive setting. Matthew and Katie are both native Austinintes who love being part of the community- particularly with the live music scene for which Austin is known, as they can be found at most ACL Live tapings where they are season ticket holders.