Guest Speaker

Matthew Slater

Senior Manager, Social Media Thought Leadership

CVS Health

Matthew is a passionate and driven communications specialist who has over 8 years of experience in fashion, cosmetics, and consumer goods from start-ups to established brands. Currently, leads CVS Health’s Enterprise social media thought leadership program, which is the strategy and development arm helping the company’s top executives build their social media ecosystems from content creation, channel management to analytics and measurement.

In his previous role at PepsiCo, Matthew helped build the company’s executive social media center of excellence, in addition to directly supporting their Global CEO, doubling his following within the year. Prior to that at ED Ellen DeGeneres, Ellen’s lifestyle brand, Matthew focused on building the brand’s social strategy from its initial launch in 2015 to an engaging multi-channel platform for its consumer, licensees, retailers, and employees to tell the story of Ellen as a designer and businesswoman.

Matthew completed his BBA degree at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business in Marketing Management and Communications Studies. A born-and-bred New Yorker, Matthew currently resides on the Upper West Side with his boyfriend. Matthew loves architecture, modern art, traveling (despite having postponed recent trips to Japan and Spain), skiing, science, electronics, and writing in the third person. If he was not pursuing his dream job with CVS Health, Matthew would someday love to be an immunologist and live out his best Francophile life in Le Marais.