Matthew Ailey

Matt founded GenRock Capital Management in 2017 and serves as Managing Partner, overseeing the firm and all investments, and works closely with the management teams of GenRock's portfolio companies.
Matt founded Quality Restaurant Group in 2017 and built the company into a scaled, and diversified portfolio across four brands, along with a portfolio of nearly 100 parcels of real estate.
In 2021, Matt founded Early Foundations Childcare to build a leading operator of Primrose Schools.
Prior to founding GenRock, Matt was an investment professional at activist hedge fund Corvex Management.
Matt was involved in Corvex's two-year, $2 billion investment in YUM! Brands (NYSE: YUM), where Corvex assisted YUM with the spin-off of its China division as a master franchisee and subsequent restructuring of YUM outside of China.
Prior to Corvex, Matt worked in the Private Equity Division at Blackstone, where he focused on investments in the consumer, industrial, healthcare, telecom, and other sectors, and specialized in roll-up investments.
Prior to Blackstone, Matt began his career at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division.
Matt received his A.B.
from Dartmouth College.