Gregg Garrett

Greggory R. Garrett is the founder and CEO of CGS Advisors, LLC, a boutique strategic transformation and innovation advisory firm serving clients globally. He has always pushed the limits of cultures by formulating and implementing unique market-disrupting strategies. An accomplished leader, Gregg takes pride in recognizing commonsense solutions for complex and systemic problems and supports “corporate bravery” by motivating teams to reach well beyond the typical boundaries in order to achieve greatness.

Prior to CGS, he spent close to a decade as a consultant at Ernst & Young before moving to leadership positions at Volkswagen and Deutsche Telekom. In his last role before founding CGS Advisors, Gregg was the chief strategy officer for IT and innovation at Volkswagen in North America, where he developed and led the digital strategy and innovation practice for one of the largest automotive companies in the world.

Gregg’s unique blend of professional management experiences in corporate settings, entrepreneurism, systemic understanding of enterprises, and knowledge of upcoming technologies makes him passionate about two distinct areas:

The Connected World: The evolving ultraconnected environment of people AND products will revolutionize the world economy over the next ten years.

People: The best strategies are useless unless people are motivated to understand and implement them.

Gregg is a dedicated father to two sons and the husband to his wife, Amy, who continuously encourages him to live life with no regrets.