Matt Rosenthal

I am an Innovation Director at Yum! Brands, where I built and now lead the RED Innovation Labs, a state-of-the-art facility that explores how technologies such as robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence can enhance the experiences of our team members and customers. I have over 25 years of engineering experience in various industries demonstrating, developing, and implementing innovative and advanced technologies that solve business problems and create value. I am passionate about building innovation ecosystems, partnering with startups, incubators, and technology providers, and promoting new agile ways of working. I am also an experienced business development and delivery executive, managing a portfolio of technology implementation and demonstration projects in the realms of automation, AI, cloud, data science/analytics, IoT, innovation, cybersecurity, and systems architecture. As a certified systems engineering professional, an AWS certified cloud practitioner and solution architect, and an agile coach, I am proficient in the full spectrum of systems engineering processes and the product development lifecycle. Technology is my passion, and I thrive on making the connection between advanced capabilities and business needs.